(n.) Those parts of a picture in which the human body or any part of it is represented in full color; the flesh tints.
(n.) A species of Dianthus (D. Caryophyllus) or pink, having very beautiful flowers of various colors, esp. white and usually a rich, spicy scent.
Example Sentences:
(1) The method was used to analyze the free amino acid pool in carnation petals.
(2) People brought flowers, and large piles of roses, lilac, tulips and carnations lay by the blackened doors.
(3) • Céline Cousteau is ambassador of the TreadRight Foundation ( treadright.org ), a not-for-profit body established by TTC ( ttc.com ) to encourage sustainable tourism within its family of brands, including Contiki, Trafalgar, Insight Vacations, Uniworld and Red Carnation Hotels
(4) The next day Istanbulus lay carnations on Istiklal.
(5) The sequence of a circular RNA from carnation has been determined and found to consist of 275 nucleotide residues adopting a branched secondary structure of minimum free energy.
(6) Dermal exposure of hands and forearms to pesticides during cutting of carnations can be predicted from measurements of DFR.
(7) In 1988, Nestlé (absent from the US infant formula industry since the 1940s) acquired the Carnation Company and launched an advertising campaign to the general public for its formula products.
(8) The genome organization is very similar to that of carnation mottle virus (CarMV) and turnip crinkle virus (TCV).
(9) A visit to his Scottish high school brought back memories of art classes spent dissecting, examining and drawing buttercups and carnations.
(10) Comparative sequence analysis has revealed that the circular RNA from carnation shares similarities with some representative members of the viroid and viroid-like satellites RNAs from plants, suggesting that it is a new member of either these two groups of small pathogenic RNAs.
(11) The programmed senescence of carnation (Dianthus caryophyllus L.) petals requires active gene expression and is associated with the expression of several senescence-related mRNAs.
(12) Data on 13 traits of 11,260 progeny of 775 sires in the Carnation Genetics linear type appraisal program were analyzed to determine the association between sire dystocia transmitting ability and progeny linear type traits.
(13) There are carnations, tulips and a tub of spring crocuses.
(14) The postulated amino acid sequence of CMeV capsid protein had 36% homology to turnip crinkle virus and 26% homology to carnation mottle virus in the arm and S domains, but western blots showed no serological relationship to either.
(15) The DNA-binding activity was present in nuclear extracts from both presenescent and senescing carnation petals.
(16) This PCR product was used to screen a cDNA library prepared from mRNA isolated from senescing carnation flower petals.
(17) Ten years ago today, a man emerged from prison to be greeted by a crowd of his supporters embracing him with carnations and a crowd of his enemies drawing their fingers across their throats.
(18) Carnation latent virus was shown to direct the synthesis of virus-specific polypeptides in both reticulocyte lysate and wheat germ in vitro translation systems.
(19) It was wrapped in a flag, pink carnations beside a pale, unshaven cheek Later they carried out his body.
(20) Respiratory exposure and dermal exposure of the hands and forearms to the pesticides chlorothalonil, thiophanate-methyl, thiram, and zineb during application and during crop activities have been measured on 18 farms for carnation culture in glass-covered greenhouses in the Netherlands.
Dianthus
Definition:
(n.) A genus of plants containing some of the most popular of cultivated flowers, including the pink, carnation, and Sweet William.
Example Sentences:
(1) The programmed senescence of carnation (Dianthus caryophyllus L.) petals requires active gene expression and is associated with the expression of several senescence-related mRNAs.
(2) Cell suspension cultures of carnation (Dianthus caryophyllus L.) accumulate, upon challenge with crude fungal elicitor, various dianthramide phytoalexins, all of which derive from N-benzoylanthranilate.
(3) Rabbit antibodies raised against dianthin 30, a ribosome inactivating protein from carnation (Dianthus caryophyllus) leaves, were used to identify a full length dianthin precursor cDNA clone from a lambda gt11 expression library.
(4) Three inhibitors of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) have been isolated and purified to homogeneity from Euphorbiaceae himalaya seeds (Gelonium multiflorum) and carnation leaves (Dianthus caryophyllus).
(5) Caffeoyl-CoA-specific methyltransferase activity was demonstrated in taxonomically widely diverse plants such as Dianthus caryophyllus (Caryophyllaceae), Carthamus tinctorius (Asteraceae) or Daucus carota, and Ammi majus (Apiaceae) where it is commonly induced by elicitor treatment.
(6) In Northern blots with RNA from Ammi or Daucus, parsley cDNA hybridized specifically to one band comparable in size to the parsley RNA, whereas Dianthus and Carthamus appear to code for slightly larger RNAs (roughly 1.45 and 1.3 kilobases, respectively).
(7) It has been shown that cell cultures of Dianthus caryophyllus L. c.v. Eleganz accumulate N-benzoyl-4-methoxyanthranilic acid, previously identified as the phytoalexin methoxydianthramide B, in response to treatment either with a crude elicitor isolated from the cell walls of Phytophthora megasperma f.sp.
(8) A single chain ribosome-inactivating protein with RNA N-glycosidase activity, here named Dianthin 29, was isolated from leaves of Dianthus barbatus L. Incubation of intact Escherichia coli ribosomes with Dianthin 29 and subsequent aniline treatment of the isolated rRNA releases a rRNA fragment of 243 nucleotides from 23 S rRNA.
(9) Sap from Dianthus barbatus also strongly inhibited virus multiplication in protoplasts but, unlike gentamicin, it acted in the presence of MnC1(2).
(10) The 12 other kinds of extracts of Chinese herbs which had a moderate antimutagenic activity against benzo[a]pyrene were: Pteris polyphylla S., Ampelopsis brevipedunculata T., Duchesnea indica F., Gossypium herbaceum L., Lithospermum erythrorrhizon SZ., Artemisia lavendulaefolia DC., Selaginella doederleinii H., Dianthus superbus L., Centipeda minima ABA., Curcuma zedoaria R., Marsdenia tenacissima WA.
(11) Incubation of tobacco ribosomes with RIPs isolated from either Phytolacca americana L. (pokeweed), Dianthus barbatus L. (carnation), Spinacia oleracea L. (spinach) or Chenopodium amaranthicolor Coste and Reyn.
(12) These proteins, GAP 31 (Gelonium Anti-HIV Protein 31 kDa) and DAPs 30 and 32 (dianthus anti-HIV proteins, 30 and 32 kDa), inhibit HIV-1 infection and replication in a dose-dependent manner with little toxicity to target cells.