(n.) A genus of grasses, including the common oat (Avena sativa); the oat grasses.
Example Sentences:
(1) Attempts were made to purify the LH-releasing substance extracted from the leaves of Avena sativa by means of two-step chromatographic procedures using a weakly acidic ion-exchange resin (CG-50,type II) and DEAE-Sephadex A-25 (coarse) with successful results.
(2) The development of the tapetal cell surface and associated structures in Avena has been followed from cell formation to senescence.
(3) The purified tonoplast H+-ATPase from oat roots (Avena sativa L. var.
(4) konjaci is situated on the lower part of this rRNA branch; all of the other taxa cluster very closely around the type strain of P. avenae.
(5) The intracellular localization of phytochrome was seen in dark-grown oat (Avena sativa L., cv.
(6) Avena seedlings grown in the presence of the plant tetrapyrrole synthesis inhibitor 4-amino-5-hexynoic acid contain less than 10% of the spectrally detectable phytochrome levels found in untreated seedlings, but continue to accumulate phytochrome apoprotein (Elich, T. D., and Lagarias, J. C. (1988) Plant Physiol.
(7) Here, we demonstrate that hemin is also an effective inhibitor of the ubiquitin-dependent proteolytic pathway in both a higher plant, oats (Avena sativa), and yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae).
(8) The value of this approach in studying genome relationships within the genus Avena and related genera is assessed.
(9) Putative protochlorophyllide reductase cDNA clones (252 and 113) were isolated from an etiolated-oat (Avena sativa) cDNA library.
(10) Highly purified phytochrome from Avena sativa was visualized by electron microscopy after negative staining with uranyl acetate and after rotary shadowing with platinum.
(11) From its behavior on chromatography with weakly acidic ion-exchange resins as well as Sephadex gel filtration, the active fraction extracted from the leaves of Avena saliva was assumed to be different from the LH-RH present in the hypothalamus.
(12) We propose that the generically misnamed phytopathogenic Pseudomonas species should be transferred to the genus Acidovorax as Acidovorax avenae and Acidovorax konjaci.
(13) We have shown that the transient first phase of auxin-induced elongation is very similar to acid-activated growth, while the second phase is long lasting and very likely identical to the long-term response to auxin, as extensively studied in Avena, soybean, and other elongating cells.
(14) Cloned cDNA and genomic sequences have been analyzed to deduce the amino acid sequence of phytochrome from etiolated Avena.
(15) coronafaciens were still able to produce necrotic lesions on oat plants (Avena sativa), although without the chlorosis associated with tabtoxin production.
(16) Western-blot analysis with 125I-labelled antibodies raised against the oat (Avena sativa) 12S globulin holoprotein or its alpha-subunits demonstrated, firstly, the immunological homology between the alpha- and beta-subunits of pea (Pisum sativum) legumin and oat 12S globulin, and secondly, the similar occurrence in wheat of antigenically homologous approximately 20kDa and approximately 40 kDa polypeptides that associate via disulphide linkage to form approximately 60 kDa dimers.
(17) The present work reports on a simple, easy and rapid method for determining urinary IAA in large numbers of samples by using Avena coleoptile sections.
(18) Field outbreaks of a syndrome of unknown aetiology associated with the grazing of green oats (Avena sativa) in the south-western Cape Province were characterized by diarrhoea, photosensitivity and death in goats and by diarrhoea and a reduction in milk production in cows.
(19) The International Court of Justice ruled in 2004, in what is often called the Avena decision, that about 50 Mexicans on death row in the US, including Tamayo, had not been properly informed of their consular rights.
(20) Using gas chromatography it was shown that acetylcholine (ACh) was present in both etiolated and green oat (Avena sativa L. cv.
Avener
Definition:
(n.) An officer of the king's stables whose duty it was to provide oats for the horses.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Gnnmph, I can't 'ave it 'ere, I 'aven't 'ad my enema," wails a labouring housewife, straining fruitlessly on a communal tenement bog as horrified neighbours look on in their rollers.
(2) For example, Mahoney and Avener [64] found that, although the absolute level of precompetition anxiety was similar between successful and unsuccessful Olympic gymnasts, there were differences in the way the athletes conceptualized the anxiety they were experiencing.
(3) His fellow oligarchs Mikhail Fridman and Pyotr Aven from Alfa-Bank gave a joint “award for excellence in foreign investment in Russia” with the Oxford Saïd Business School from 2007 to 2011.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Czech Republic Gipsy.cz – Aven Romale The Czech Republic's entry this year is performed by a band whose name is a URL, and are led by a man in a superman suit who raps about the life of the gypsy.
(5) They settled in Pont-Aven in Brittany, a town with a connection to Gauguin, and began a summer art school.
(6) The cable correctly predicted the billionaires would gain operational control of TNK-BP, adding that Aven “appears to have considerable influence in the Kremlin”.
(7) AVE was further recalculated after VE was normalized for a 70 kg body mass, using an allometric coefficient, and was defined as AVEN.
(8) Alfa Bank in Moscow – owned by Fridman, Aven and Khan – did not respond to requests for comment.
(9) Blavatnik and his company Access Industries owned 12.5%; Viktor Vekselberg 12.5%; Fridman, Aven and German Khan 12.5%, 11%, and 1.5%.
(10) It inevitably brings Oxford University into disrepute for neglecting its stated goals and values.” Two of Blavatnik’s AAR partners – the oligarchs Mikhail Fridman and Pyotr Aven – also have links with the university.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Pyotr Aven, a partner of Bravatnik in AAR, also has links to Oxford University.