What's the difference between inflorescence and involucre?

Inflorescence


Definition:

  • (n.) A flowering; the putting forth and unfolding of blossoms.
  • (n.) The mode of flowering, or the general arrangement and disposition of the flowers with reference to the axis, and to each other.
  • (n.) An axis on which all the flower buds.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Powdered slaked lime applied to the chewed Areca nut with Piper betle inflorescence at the corner of the mouth causes the mean pH to rise to 10, at which reactive oxygen species are generated from betel quid ingredients in vitro.
  • (2) Arabidopsis flowers develop from groups of undifferentiated cells on the flank of an inflorescence meristem.
  • (3) The content of heparin-binding complexes amounted to about 20% of the total DNA quantity and 60 to 80% of nitrocellulose-retained DNA, being similar in preparations of DNA from calf thymus, chicken erythrocytes and cauliflower inflorescence.
  • (4) Poly(A)+ RNA was obtained from inflorescences and was shown to be able to code in vitro for a protein homologous to Par o I with respect to sodium dodecylsulphate polyacrylamide gel electrophoretic mobility and to antigenic specificity as defined by the binding, in affinity chromatography, to solid-phase IgG of rabbit anti-Par o I antisera, and in RAST inhibition, to IgE antibodies of human reaginic serum pool.
  • (5) The distribution of allergenic proteins was investigated in various tissues of white birch, Betula verrucosa (pollen, leaves and male inflorescences containing immature pollen).
  • (6) Although necessary for shaping a normal racemose inflorescence, the squa function is not absolutely essential for flower development.
  • (7) Artemisia annua L. contains artemisinin, an endoperoxide sesquiterpene lactone, mainly in its leaves and inflorescences.
  • (8) The first step in flower development is the transition of an inflorescence meristem into a floral meristem.
  • (9) No Bet v I could be extracted from immature male inflorescences.
  • (10) This was also true when comparing extracts of immature and fruiting inflorescences.
  • (11) The procedure established that macerated leaf sheath or pith from inflorescence stem placed either in a liquid medium or on a corn meal-malt extract agar medium produced isolated mycelium and characteristic conidia within a 3- to 3.5-week period.
  • (12) It has been determined that the thromboplastic agents from the inflorescence of the birch Betula pendula Roth, blossoms of the willow Salix daphnoides Vill., seeds of the pea Pisum sativum L. provoke protective reaction of the animal's anticoagulation system, though weaker expressed than the reaction of thromboplastin from brain.
  • (13) From fresh and dried herb (without inflorescences) of Anthemis nobilis L. a new sesquiterpene lactone C20H26O6 was isolated.
  • (14) The chemicals or their mixtures were either (1) mixed into soil, and chemical exposure to the target cells was through the roots of intact plants grown in the soil or (2) through plant cuttings in which the inflorescences received treatment by absorption through stem of an aqueous solution of the test chemicals.
  • (15) The aqueous extract of inflorescences of Parietaria judaica contains an allergen homologous to the major pollen allergen Par o I (14 kD), as shown by radio-allergosorbent test (RAST) inhibition and immunoblot analysis.
  • (16) The essential oil was extracted from the inflorescences of Rhaponticum uniflorum which are used as a Mongolian drug.
  • (17) The zoospores showed taxis towards the tissues surrounding the inflorescence of Lolium perenne L. in the rumen, invading principally the stomata and damaged tissues.
  • (18) Comparing the products of in vitro translation from mRNA preparations of mature pollen and of male inflorescences collected in June, October and February, little seasonal variations could be observed.
  • (19) We show that LEAFY interacts with another floral control gene, APETALA1, to promote the transition from inflorescence to floral meristem.
  • (20) Thick proximally unbranched dendrites with terminal arborizations and varicose inflorescences in the form of a basket are stained with the Golgi method.

Involucre


Definition:

  • (n.) A whorl or set of bracts around a flower, umbel, or head.
  • (n.) A continuous marginal covering of sporangia, in certain ferns, as in the common brake, or the cup-shaped processes of the filmy ferns.
  • (n.) The peridium or volva of certain fungi. Called also involucrum.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Genetic, immunological and environmental factors have been involucrated in its development.
  • (2) Aspergillus flavus spores were dusted onto the involucral nectaries of cotton flowers.
  • (3) A 62-year old farmer woman from the northeastern, very rainy part of Turkey has been collecting large amounts of green and brown involucral hazel-nut leaves for subsequent use as fuel.
  • (4) Así que, si vives en el DF o a las afueras, queremos que te involucres y compartas tus puntos de vista con nosotros – hay muchas maneras de hacerlo ... • Para estar al tanto con nuestros videos, artículos, galerías y eventos en vivo, mantén un ojo atento a la página Guadrian Cities todos los días del Lunes 9 al Viernes 13 de Noviembre.
  • (5) However many papers in the literature conclude the importance of the renal involucre based only in the clinical observation of the patients.
  • (6) To understand the chemical characteristics of involucral trash components that might contribute to bysinosis, we examined the human airway constricting activity and oxygen radical generating activity of dry, frost-killed cotton bracts.
  • (7) In greenhouse and field studies, cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) flowers were inoculated with Aspergillus flavus at the involucral nectaries.

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