(a.) Having a blanched or faded appearance, as birds inhabiting desert regions.
Example Sentences:
(1) The plastocyanin content of etiolated bean leaves (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) was measured, and the development of the protein in response to light was followed.
(2) Microsomal membrane preparations from growing regions of etiolated pea stems catalyzed the transfer of [14C]fucosyl units from GDP-[U-14C]-L-fucose into exogenously added xyloglucan acceptors, as well as into endogenous xyloglucan.
(3) There were no detectable differences in the patterns of histone variants from immature grain (3-16 days after fertilization), from mature embryos, from coleoptiles and roots of 4-day-old, etiolated seedlings and from leaves of 10-day-old, light-grown seedlings.
(4) In this paper, we establish the presence of a G protein associated with the plasma membranes of the apical bud of etiolated peas.
(5) The rates of mitochondrial glycine oxidation estimated by CO2-release and glycine-bicarbonate exchange activities in fully greened tissues are approximately 10 times greater than those of etiolated pea leaves and potato tuber mitochondria.
(6) The development of PSII complex precedes that of PSI during the differentiation of B and M chloroplasts in expanding leaves of light-grown plants and during the greening of dark-grown etiolated seedlings.
(7) Short pulses of red light induce in etiolated barley seedlings an enhanced synthesis of plastidic benzoquinones and vitamin K1, which can be reverted by subsequent irradiation with short pulses of far-red.
(8) When etiolated soybean seedlings are treated with the synthetic auxin, 2,4-dichlorophenoxy-acetic acid, cells of the mature hypocotyl become swollen and proliferate abnormally.
(9) Cab2::Luc transcript accumulated in the expected patterns and luciferase activity was closely correlated to cab2::Luc mRNA abundance in both etiolated and green seedlings.
(10) Parallel to the decline in mRNA content, the de novo synthesis of leaf-specific thionins ceases rapidly upon illumination of etiolated seedlings.
(11) The activity of both enzymes was low in etiolated leaves of maize plants grown in the dark but increased 10-20-fold, together with chlorophyll, when leaves were illuminated.
(12) Ferredoxin is present in low concentrations in the leaves and cotyledons of 14-day-old etiolated beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L. var.
(13) Studies of the biogenesis of PS I during greening of etiolated plants showed that all of the CC I subunits accumulated to a detectable level prior to the appearance of the 17-kDa subunit of LHC I, the accumulation of which preceded those of the 24- and 21-kDa subunits of LHC I.
(14) By immunological techniques, the enzyme was shown to be absent in green as well as in etiolated E. gracilis cells, while being rapidly induced upon streptomycin bleaching of heterotrophically growing green cells.
(15) Fed-1 transcript levels in transgenic tobacco seedlings closely paralleled those of the native gene in pea buds when etiolated seedlings were transferred to white light.
(16) Putative protochlorophyllide reductase cDNA clones (252 and 113) were isolated from an etiolated-oat (Avena sativa) cDNA library.
(17) Furthermore, there are no factors in homogenates of etiolated leaves which inactivate amino acid incorporation into protein by chloroplasts.
(18) Application of auxin to 8-day old Arabidopsis plants, 4-day old etiolated seedlings, and suspension culture cells all resulted in enhanced Aux transcript levels.
(19) Synthesis of the polypeptide occurred during greening of etiolated cells exposed to light.
(20) Cloned cDNA and genomic sequences have been analyzed to deduce the amino acid sequence of phytochrome from etiolated Avena.
Sunlight
Definition:
(n.) The light of the sun.
Example Sentences:
(1) The lighting regimen was 14 h light: 10 h dark, supplied by natural diffused sunlight and incandescent bulbs.
(2) The results suggest that chronic sunlight exposure may be associated with an impediment to normal maturation of human dermal collagen resulting in tenuous amount of HHL.
(3) Outdoor sunlight exposure during the workshift and tanning salon use were identified as risk factors; the most severe cutaneous reactions tended to occur among tanning salon users.
(4) Physicians need to prescribe the lowest possible dose of hormones in these women and counsel them to shield their face from sunlight.
(5) The result, you would have to say, is pretty much exactly that: bordered on one side by the library and town hall, and on the other by the tourist office, the 600 sq ms of Rjukan's market square, to be comprehensively remodelled next year in celebration, now bathes in a focused beam of bright sunlight fully 80-90% as intense as the original.
(6) Certain ultraviolet wavelengths (UVB, 290-320 nm) are thought to be responsible for most of the immediate and long-term pathological consequences of excessive exposure to sunlight.
(7) No association was observed between history of sunlight exposure and senile cataract.
(8) Admittedly, minutes earlier Steven Fletcher’s header from a Lens cross had flown only marginally off target but it represented a rare shaft of sunlight.
(9) On the inner surface of what would be rotating habitats, strips of land would alternate with windows to let in sunlight.
(10) People living in the Far East are exposed to bright sunlight all year round so photoageing of exposed skin is inevitable.
(11) I postulate that people near the equator are exposed to more sunlight and that the ultraviolet light from the sunlight aids in the induction of suppressor cells specific for melanocyte associated antigens.
(12) Data for the incidence of basal cell carcinomas (BCCs) and squamous cell carcinomas (SCCs) of the skin, registered for six regions of Norway during 10 years (1976-1985), were used to evaluate the biological amplification factor Ab for induction of these cancers by sunlight.
(13) In an overpopulated future Los Angeles that never sees the sunlight, Deckard is tasked with taking out a gang of replicants (android outlaws) who have escaped to Earth from an off-world colony.
(14) Our field tests had supported the utility of this dosimeter as a reproducible and reliable sunlight dosimeter.
(15) The possibility of insufficient exposure to sunlight could not be determined.
(16) Other triggers included hunger and prolonged exposure to excessive heat or sunlight.
(17) The lips are composed of striated muscle and connective tissue and are anatomically positioned to be maximally exposed to sunlight, environment, food, and tobacco.
(18) Tian Tian, the female, whose name means sweetie, and Yang Guang, meaning sunlight, travelled from China on board a Boeing 777F flight dubbed the FedEx Panda Express, with a vet and two animal handlers.
(19) The disorder first set on after an episode of intensive exposure to sunlight and persisted for 6 years.
(20) When exposed to sunlight creatine kinase was unstable in all the investigated control and patient sera.