(n.) The act of forming or producing fruit; the act of fructifying, or rendering productive of fruit; fecundation.
(n.) The collective organs by which a plant produces its fruit, or seeds, or reproductive spores.
(n.) The process of producing fruit, or seeds, or spores.
Example Sentences:
(1) ), fructification of the mould occurred, the growth rhythm was retarded and, after the necrotization of spots, the leaf died away.
(2) Subsequent analysis of the mycelium produced under Mn2+ deficient growth revealed that alpha-1,3 glucan, the man carbon and energy source for fructification, was virtually absent from the cell wall.
(3) Vegetative cells were grown on SP agar and then transferred to Bonner salts agar for fructification.
(4) P. oligandrum produced numerous fructification organs in contradistinction to parasitized species.
(5) The abundance of sexual fructifications in the tissue indicates that pathogenicity is due to Microascus cinereus.
(6) Maximum of fructification is in the first decade of October.
(7) A new bacteria named Prevotella bacterioglaeae is studied in curious types of fructification.
(8) has been successfully cultured for the first time on a known semisynthetic mediumn with no evident loss of fructifications.
(9) A saturated solution of orseillin BB in 3% acetic acid followed by a 1% aqueous solution of crystal violet provides an excellent differential staining for sections of ascomycetous fructifications.
(10) Radioactivity translocation of 14C-Ecolyte-polystyrene along fungal hyphae and asexual fructification of strains, isolated from soil, as well as cytological modification at the cell wall level of the same microfungi, cultivated in the presence of polystyrene have been ascertained.
(11) Procedures for sectioning fungal fructifications in host tissues or on artificial media are described, which allow observation of internal structures by scanning electron microscopy.
(12) Mating with a compatible monokaryon yielded a dikaryon capable of normal fructification.
(13) Mutability and abnormal development of the life cycle are responsible for self-fructification.
(14) A simple two-variable mathematical model is proposed, able to acount for periodic variations relating to growth in Podospora anserina and fructification in Aspergillus niger.
(15) While similar preservation was obtained in sectioned acervuli of Lecanosticta acicola and Marssonia juglandis and in pycnidia of Dothiorella ribis and Phomopsis occulta, the mucilaginous substances produced in these fructifications precluded observation of conidiophores.
(16) Optimum conditions for a laboratory-scale fructification were investigated.
Fruit
Definition:
(v. t.) Whatever is produced for the nourishment or enjoyment of man or animals by the processes of vegetable growth, as corn, grass, cotton, flax, etc.; -- commonly used in the plural.
(v. t.) The pulpy, edible seed vessels of certain plants, especially those grown on branches above ground, as apples, oranges, grapes, melons, berries, etc. See 3.
(v. t.) The ripened ovary of a flowering plant, with its contents and whatever parts are consolidated with it.
(v. t.) The spore cases or conceptacles of flowerless plants, as of ferns, mosses, algae, etc., with the spores contained in them.
(v. t.) The produce of animals; offspring; young; as, the fruit of the womb, of the loins, of the body.
(v. t.) That which is produced; the effect or consequence of any action; advantageous or desirable product or result; disadvantageous or evil consequence or effect; as, the fruits of labor, of self-denial, of intemperance.
(v. i.) To bear fruit.
Example Sentences:
(1) The recent rise in manufacturing has been welcomed by George Osborne as a sign that his economic policies are bearing fruit.
(2) 4) Parents imagined that fruit drinks, carbonated beverages and beverages with lactic acid promoted tooth decay.
(3) Severe fruit rot of guava due to Phytophthora nicotianae var.
(4) Instead, they say, we should only eat plenty of lean meat and fish, with fruit and raw vegetables on the side.
(5) Fruiting revertants of these strains accumulate wild-type levels of alpha-mannosidase-1 activity, suggesting that both the enzymatic and morphological defects are caused by single mutations in nonstructural genes essential for early development.
(6) Further evidence showing that the fruit of the black nightshade contains acetylcholine was obtained by chromatographic separation of the aqueous extract.
(7) Strong positive associations were found in both sexes for low fruit and vegetable consumption, high intake of salted meat and "mate" ingestion.
(8) We therefore surveyed patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) regarding early adult consumption of fruits and vegetables usually eaten raw, with seeds that are swallowed or scraped with the teeth.
(9) Phil Barlow Nottingham • Reading about the problems caused by a lack of toilets reminded me of the harvest camps my father’s Birmingham school organised in the Vale of Evesham during the war, where the sixth-formers spent weeks picking fruit and vegetables on farms.
(10) Scott insisted he was an abstract painter in the way he felt Chardin was too: the pans and fruit were uninteresting in themselves; they were merely "the means of making a picture", which was a study in space, form and colour.
(11) It is not likely that this is going to be fruitful.
(12) Dietary recommendations for cancer prevention advise reduced intake of fat; increased intake of fruits, vegetables, and grains; and moderate intake of alcohol and salt-cured, salt-pickled, and smoked foods.
(13) The latest filed accounts show Coates and her family have started to enjoy the fruits of their labour, sharing almost £75m in dividends over three years.
(14) During development of tomato fruit, most DNA-protein interactions in the rbcS promoter regions disappear, coincident with the transcriptional inactivation of the rbcS genes.
(15) Four years on from that speech, his strategy is bearing fruit – in a less than palatable way.
(16) (2) The Bunsen-Roscoe Law of Reciprocity was found to hold for the photoinduction of fruiting bodies for the interval 36 to 2000 sec with light of 448 nm.
(17) However, the tip cells are slow to differentiate, and hence immature fruiting bodies contain a small population of undifferentiated tip cells.
(18) The data suggest that a learning approach to the origins of attentional biases in anxious subjects might be fruitful.
(19) From Tuesday, the Neckarsulm-based grocer will be the official supplier of water, fish, fruit and vegetables for Roy Hodgson’s boys under a multimillion-pound three-year deal with the Football Association.
(20) In order to uncover the role of G proteins in the integrative functioning and development of the nervous system, we have begun a multidisciplinary study of the G proteins present in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster.