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to foliar
adjective
Of, pertaining to, or via the leaves
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Response of Five Hydrangea Species to Foliar Salt Spray.
She focused on the genetics of disease resistance in maize, specifically on mapping host resistance to foliar pathogens.
In contrast to foliar diseases, relatively little is known about the nature of root defenses against these pathogens.
Grain weight reductions due to foliar diseases were widely reported in the literature mostly associated with decreases on radiation interception during the grain filling period.
Although wheat crop losses due to foliar diseases have already been studied based on an ecophysiological approach, none of these studies analyzed the independent effects of foliar pathogens with different nutritional habits.
We investigated the genetic variation in seedling recovery following decapitation of two Eucalyptus globulus populations that differ in the extent to which they appear to allocate resources to foliar defence as opposed to recovery traits.
Tree growth was not correlated to foliar nutrient concentrations, but ratios of K to other elements (K Ca, K Mg, K N, and K P) were highest, on average, for wood ash plots.
The present study was designed to determine the causes of grain weight reduction due to foliar diseases complex (including leaf rust, Septoria leaf blotch and tan spot) in wheat crops growing under contrasting agronomic and environmental conditions (i.e. different years, locations, cultivars and N supply).
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Many of the arthropods in these systems are soil dwelling, and may have had reduced exposure to foliar-applied insecticides.
Populations of herbivorous insects would be predicted to respond to higher foliar N concentrations and decreased foliar defenses in nitrogen-rich soil indicator plants by increasing individual and population growth rates [ 50, 51].
It would be unlikely that this increase in expression level to be in response to a whitefly attack due to this pest's preference to the foliar portions and stems of the plant as opposed to the fruit.
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