(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.
Novitiate
Definition:
(n.) The state of being a novice; time of initiation or instruction in rudiments.
(n.) Hence: Time of probation in a religious house before taking the vows.
(n.) One who is going through a novitiate, or period of probation; a novice.
(n.) The place where novices live or are trained.
Example Sentences:
(1) Despite control for sex-typed handwriting cues in the second study, 8 male novitiates' responses were assessed as less empathic than those of 8 females.