(n.) The angle or point of divergence between the upper side of a branch, leaf, or petiole, and the stem or branch from which it springs.
Example Sentences:
(1) While R. culicivorax did not adapt to the leaf axil habitat, all plants were without larvae for 5 weeks after treatment with temephos.
(2) Water in leaf axils of the screwpine Pandanus was sampled for mosquito immature stages at seventy villages in Upolu, fifty-five in Savai'i and three in Manono, the main islands of Samoa.
(3) leucostigma, in the submerged Typha dominguensis leaf axils.
(4) Breeding-places of G. palpalis were found in the leaf axils of oilpalm trees (Elaeis guineensis Jacquin), especially beside paths where people would risk being bitten.
(5) In villages in the relatively dry Sudan savanna neither leaf axils nor tree-holes were important Stegomyia larval habitats, but in the more southern Kontagora area of the wetter northern Guinea savanna, these habitats were probably important breeding sites.
(6) and 1.3% of tree holes, plant axils, and cut bamboos were infested.
(7) The isolation of two entomopathogenic fungi from Forcipomyia marksae larvae collected in leaf axils of Colocasia macrorrhiza in northeastern Queensland rain forests is reported.
(8) The banana axils is a favorite breeding place for Aedes poecilus but may also utilize the abaca axils.
(9) High squa transcript levels are seen in the inflorescence lateral meristems as soon as they are formed in the axils of bracts.
(10) Plants homozygous for this mutation display a homeotic conversion of sepsis into brachts and the concomitant formation of floral buds in the axil of each transformed sepal.
(11) poicilius accounted for 58% of larvae found in the axils of banana plants and 31% of those in abaca axils; negligible numbers of larvae of this species were found in pandanus and gabi axils.
Bract
Definition:
(n.) A leaf, usually smaller than the true leaves of a plant, from the axil of which a flower stalk arises.
(n.) Any modified leaf, or scale, on a flower stalk or at the base of a flower.
Example Sentences:
(1) Enterobacter agglomerans was the most predominant bacterium on leaf and bract.
(2) Field-dried cotton bract, a contaminant of cotton dust, has been implicated in byssinosis pathogenesis.
(3) Cotton bract tannin is a potent stimulus for platelet aggregation and secretion.
(4) Byssinosis, COPD, cotton fever and cotton pneumoconiosis may be different types of responses due to the different duration of exposure, the different parts of bronchial tree (upper respiratory tract, small airway, and respiratory part) where deposition occurs, and the different components of cotton dust (broken cotton fibers, bracts, pericarps, bacteria, and fungi).
(5) Comparison of the cytotoxicity dose curves for aqueous bracts extracts with those for tannin demonstrated that tannin was the major cytotoxin present in bracts.
(6) Bract is the most abundant component in respirable raw cotton dust.
(7) After clearing and removal of the cuticle, the bracts are bleached, washed, dehydrated, and if studied by light microscopy, stained in 2% chlorazol black E and mounted in Diaphane; or, if studied by scanning electron microscopy, dried by the critical-point method and either left uncoated or coated with a film of various conductive metals.
(8) The human T lymphocyte proliferative response to cotton bract tannin was shown to be dependent upon the presence of monocytes.
(9) Pulmonary function measured by flow changes on partial expiratory flow volume curves was used to assess airway responses to the bract extracts after their inhalation by a panel of volunteers.
(10) The content of bract was unaffected by this harvest-aid practice.
(11) Raw cotton from 4 machine picked varieties and 2 machine stripped varieties is examined by stereomicroscope and bright-field microscopy for presence of plant trash(bract, leaf, stem, seed, boll, and weed fragments-size range 841-2000mum) that gives rise to cotton dust during yarn manufacturing operations.
(12) The effects of a water extract of cotton bracts (CBE) on guinea pig isolated trachealis smooth muscle was studied.
(13) The authors established an in vitro cytotoxicity assay using 51Cr release to assess time- and dose-dependent toxicity of condensed tannin, a component of bracts, on porcine aortic and pulmonary arterial endothelial cells.
(14) Senescence affected the population levels of the various genera on leaf and bract.
(15) The provenance of bristles and bracts suggests that the bristle cells move into their final positions.
(16) Mill workers are exposed to bract which has weathered in the field, but it is not known whether biologic effects of bract are due to intrinsic plant compound(s) or to contamination occurring during field weathering.
(17) To determine if constituents of cotton plants might play a role in byssinosis by injuring pulmonary epithelium, we added extracts of cotton dust, green bract, and field-dried bract to human A549 and rat type II pneumocytes.
(18) Macrophages obtained by bronchoalveolar lavage from volunteers pre-challenged with bract extract release increased amounts of chemotactic factor and superoxide anion.
(19) The role of nonspecific reactivity of the airways in this reaction to cotton bract extract is undefined.
(20) Extracts of cotton dust and field-dried bract produced significant dose- and time-dependent lysis and detachment of both target cells, while green bract extract was less damaging.