Sentence examples for uppermost leaves from inspiring English sources

Even the trees had been burned, their trunks charred and their uppermost leaves shriveled and brown.

Snow is still falling on the garden, blanching the uppermost leaves of the leeks still in the ground.

Jinhai5, a corn cultivar planted widely across China, was grown at a density of 105,000 plants ha−1 until 3 days after silking (DAS), when plants were subjected to the removal of the uppermost and next leaves (S2), the four uppermost leaves (S4) or the six uppermost leaves (S6), with no leaf removal as control (S0).

The mean leaf orientation value (LOV) and individual LOVs increased considerably during the time series of the genotypes, but more obvious changes in LOV occurred in the uppermost leaves.

But this stingy strategy also kept out carbon dioxide, reducing photosynthesis in the uppermost leaves.

Middle regions of fully emerged uppermost leaves were sampled at 30 DAG.

In both flower types the uppermost green leaves have been identified as bracts, since they differ morphologically from both, sepals as well as leaves.

The differences of especially CvSEP1 gene expression between leaf tissue and the uppermost green leaves furthermore supports our morphology-based classification of the latter ones as bracts.

On the other hand, besides the clear morphological dissimilarity, expression of CvSEP1 was obviously repressed in these uppermost green leaves compared to the sepals.

Total RNA was extracted from the uppermost rice leaves, including the flag leaf of the plants of the two pairs of NILs, IR77298-14-1-2-B-10 (hIR77298-14-1-2-B-13ant), IR77298-5-6-B-18-13 (drought-susceptible), IR77298-5-6-B-18 (moderandly drought-tolerant), and IR77298-5-6-B-11 (highly drought-susceptible), subjectod to 1.0, 0.5 and 0.2 FTSW.

Leaves short-petiolate; petiole 1 1.5 cm long, glabrous, exauriculate; blade narrowly elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 5 22 cm long, 2 5 cm broad, base narrowly cuneate, margin prominently mucronate-serrate, apex acute-acuminate, papery, both surfaces glabrous, pinnately veined, lateral veins 12 18, arcuate-ascending, somewhat prominent abaxially; uppermost and branch leaves obviously smaller.