Sentence examples for were drought from inspiring English sources

The drought tolerance indices used were drought susceptibility index (DSI) and drought tolerance efficiency (DTE).

Historically, the agents principally responsible for maintaining grassland habitats were drought, grazing by native herbivores, and fire.

Mound-inoculated plants that were drought stressed also produced more than twice as many leaves as non-inoculated plants.

As all the district sales managers listened and discussed at the end, the varieties were not very surprising as most of them were drought tolerant types.

Clones that had low DSI values, also had low FSR yield difference under drought and no drought environment, indicating they were drought tolerant, but had less DPWP.

The non-targeted approach: (1) revealed a set of genes that were consistently affected by abiotic stress regardless of tissue type; (2) demonstrated that gene expression in some tissues is more responsive to stress than other tissues; (3) identified a group of genes that were drought responsive that would not have been predicted a priori.

David Schindler, an ecologist at the University of Alberta, says that evidence from tree rings and ancient algae suggests that the prairies were drought-prone in the past and that the 20th century was unusually wet.

The primary Neolithic crops, domesticated by the 5th millennium bce, were drought-resistant millet (usually Setaria italica), grown on the eolian and alluvial loess soils of the northwest and the north, and glutenous rice (Oryza sativa), grown in the wetlands of the southeast.

There were droughts.

For RT-PCR analysis of gene expression under drought conditions, 6-week-old seedlings were drought-treated, and samples were collected approximately 6 days after treatment (dat).

Eight orthologs of Arabidopsis nuclear factor-Y (NF-YA or NF-YB) were drought-regulated in poplar [ 50].