(1) Careless Herbicidal aerial spray of a field for weed control and defoliation of cotton before machine picking, resulted in the contamination of an adjoining reservoir, killing large volume of fish.
(2) kurstaki were compared against four species of defoliating forest lepidopterans in diet-incorporation assays.
(3) "It may be that thistle-cutting or spraying is unnecessary this summer because the caterpillars will defoliate them for you."
(4) Among these there are hexachlorophene and the herbicide 2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid, which was used as a defoliant in the Vietnam War.
(5) A sward is kept in a vigorous state by preventing repetitive defoliation at the one extreme, and avoiding excessive shading (mature growth) of photosynthetic material at the other.
(6) The effect of defoliants butyphos (I), dropp (II), butylcaptacs (III), hinazopin (IV), syhat (V), tetra-n-butylammonium bromide (VI), etrel (VII), gemetrel (VIII), allyl-4-methylpyridinium bromide (IX), 1-amino-cyclopropan-1-carbonate (ACPC) (X) at various concentrations (1 x 10(-5)-2 x 10(-4) M) on respiration, oxidative phosphorylation (OP) and permeability of the inner mitochondrial membrane from rat liver has been studied.
(7) Defoliation has affected soil fertility and caused miscarriages, stillbirths and deformities.
(8) Evidence indicates that the defoliant action of auxin is mediated through the enhanced amounts of ethylene in the blade.
(9) Chemical defoliants are applied to about 40% of the U.S. Cotton acreage as a harvest-aid practice prior to machine picking.
(10) For defoliants, insecticides, acaricides, nematocides and zoocides a good correlation between calculated and experimental values of skin-resorptive toxicity for rats was shown.
(11) The other defoliants either induce respiration generally in metabolic states 3 and 4 (IV, VI, IX) or have no effect on the respiration and OP (V, VII, VIII, X).
(12) Inorganic arsenicals have been used in agriculture as pesticides or defoliants for many years and, in localized areas, oxides of arsenic have contaminated soils as a result of fallout from ore-smelting operations and coal-fired power plants.
(13) Forty Chinchilla rabbits of both sexes were examined for changes in some parameters of protein, lipid and trace elements metabolism (total protein, protein fractions, urea, residual nitrogen in blood serum, lipids, total cholesterol, free cholesterol, diglycerides, phospholipids, triglycerides, free fatty acids and the trace elements selenium, iron, zinc and so forth in the liver) during the animals' poisoning with the defoliant magnesium chlorate.
(14) Raw cottons derived from defoliated and nondefoliated fields were examined for content of bract and leaf trash Chemical defoliation lowered, but did not remove, leaf as a major trash component.
(15) Arsenicals are used in agriculture as pesticides and defoliants.
(16) As well as defoliating oaks, leaving them vulnerable to other pests and diseases, the moth poses a significant health threat to people.
(17) Cell wall extensibility is not increased by treatment and the evidence suggests that a small increase in the (turgor-wall yield stress) term may be the cause of the very rapid response to defoliation.
(18) Part of the former base consists of a dry field where US troops once stored and mixed the defoliant before it was loaded on to planes.
(19) Coffee plants sit defoliated and damaged by leaf rust fungus in Guatemala, which is flourishing as the world warms.
(20) The parasites were associated with extensive defoliation of the copulatory epithelium and in some instances had penetrated the submucosa resulting in petechiae.
Foliage
Definition:
(n.) Leaves, collectively, as produced or arranged by nature; leafage; as, a tree or forest of beautiful foliage.
(n.) A cluster of leaves, flowers, and branches; especially, the representation of leaves, flowers, and branches, in architecture, intended to ornament and enrich capitals, friezes, pediments, etc.
(v. t.) To adorn with foliage or the imitation of foliage; to form into the representation of leaves.
Example Sentences:
(1) Over the decades, the Mauna Loa readings, made famous in Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth, show the CO2 level rising and falling each year as foliage across the northern hemisphere blooms in spring and recedes in autumn.
(2) This is a guy whose last feature, Trash Humpers , was 80 minutes of old people shagging foliage.
(3) The method appears applicable to detection of the residues of Pydrin in the foliage of many types of crops.
(4) Mimosine was administered orally to Merino sheep once daily for periods of 1-3 days, either as the isolated compound or in the foliage of Leucaena leucocephala.
(5) Conditions of foliage forests with high grass, where occur hosts of all developmental phases of ticks (elks, hares, rodents, insectivores), are most favourable for I. persulcatus.
(6) The air concentration was then used to estimate the flux to foliage, which was compared with direct plant uptake through the roots.
(7) Violence picks up from April when the opium poppy harvest is in, spring foliage provides cover for fighters, and snow melts on the mountain passes that fighters use to return from safe havens in Pakistan.
(8) The results show that N-methylcarbamoyl and N-dimethylcarbamoylindolines in which the indoline nucleus bears a halogen or alkyl substituent are highly active on absorption via the roots of foliage and have a wide spectrum of action.
(9) Now workers ensure structures, with their flower-shaped arches and towering pillars topped with giant leaves, aren’t reclaimed by the ever-encroaching jungle foliage.
(10) Foliage collected at several times was analyzed for total terbufos residues as terbufoxon sulfone.
(11) Add a sprinkling of compost and lay them on their side to stop the foliage from rotting if it gets too wet.
(12) It was concluded that the gut-filling effect of a bulk of indigestible fibre is a major reason why the brushtail possum does not feed exclusively on Eucalyptus foliage in the wild.
(13) Inside Nunhead cemetery sits a humble bench that commands a spectacular window on St Paul’s Cathedral, perfectly framed amid the foliage, although it can only be seen if you align yourself dead centre.
(14) The digestion and metabolism of Eucalyptus melliodora foliage was studied in captive brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula).
(15) However most of the compounds showed phytotoxic activity by absorption through the foliage.
(16) Two methods are described in which light-exposed films could be used clinically with application of the principle of solarization: (1) as duplicating films with the use of sunlight and (2) as receptors for images of foliage with the use of sunlight.
(17) The ascorbic acid content of foliage available to wild primates and bats in Panama (in transition between wet and dry seasons) was lower than that of temperate zone foliage but higher than that of most fruits and vegetables.
(18) Using energy from the sun, they turn the carbon captured from the CO2 molecules into building blocks for their trunks, branches and foliage.
(19) The cathedral had been transformed into a grove of white roses, and foliage including sweet scented broom, the “planta genista” emblem of the Plantagenets.
(20) In other experiments, potassium levels of the foliage were monitored.