(n.) A genus of twining plants with showy monopetalous flowers, including the morning-glory, the sweet potato, and the cypress vine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pregnant ewes and their fetuses were chronically catheterized using aseptic procedures under general anaesthesia, and the ewes were then fed either lucerne chaff alone, or lucerne mixed with dried plant material obtained from one of three forb species, Tribulus terrestris (caltrop), Abelmoschus ficulneus (native rosella) or Ipomoea lonchophylla (cowvine), from 103-112 days gestation until term.
(2) An aqueous alcoholic extract of Ipomoea carnea subsp.
(3) The rat phrenic nerve hemidiaphragm and chick biventer-cervicis preparations were used to investigate the effect of a crude aqueous extract of Ipomoea fistulosa.
(4) The coat protein of particles of sweet potato feathery mottle potyvirus (SPFMV) extracted from Ipomoea spp.
(5) Small strands and bundles of strands extend from the outside surface of suspension-cultured cells of Daucus, Ipomoea, and Phaseolus into the medium.
(6) The remaining 25 S. ipomoea strains exhibited high DNA relatedness among themselves (76 to 100% homology), even though they had been isolated in different locations throughout the United States and Japan.
(7) Three chemical compounds isolated from the leaves and stems of Ipomoea batatas were identified as fumaric acid, succinic acid and 7,3',4'-trimethylquercetin by chemical and spectroscopic analysis.
(8) N-trans- and N-cis-Feruloyltyramines were isolated as the inhibitors of in vitro prostaglandin (PG) synthesis from an Indonesian medicinal plant, Ipomoea aquatica (Convolvulaceae).
(9) Storage roots of Ipomoea batatas L. Lam were exposed to gamma irradiation at 90, 180, and 240 Gy.
(10) Two naturally occurring lignanolides, isolated from the tropical climbing shrub Ipomoea cairica, (-)-arctigenin and (-)-trachelogenin, were found to inhibit strongly replication of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1; strain HTLV-III B) in vitro.
(11) Bush potato (Ipomoea costata), an Aboriginal bushfood which is slowly digested in vitro, and potato (Solanum tuberosum), which has a high glycemic index, were studied.
(12) A new haploid, heterothallic yeast species was isolated repeatedly from morning glory (Ipomoea acuminata) flowers and from two associated drosophilid species, Scaptomyza calliginosa and Drosophila floricola, in a Hawaiian kipuka.
(13) The detection of natural selection through spatial pattern analysis is discussed, and applied to data from populations of the morning glory, Ipomoea purpurea.
(14) This fibrous cell coat is present in all samples from various growth stages but appears to increase in quantity in the order Ipomoea < Phaseolus < Daucus.
(15) Three fatty acid glycosides, designated pescaprosides A, B, and E, have been isolated from Ipomoea pescaprae (family Convolvulaceae).
(16) The crude extract (IPA) of the plant Ipomoea pes-caprae (L.) R. Br.
(17) The enzyme that catalyzes the above reaction has been purified 160-fold from sweet potato root (Ipomoea batatas Lam.)
(18) The hot water extracts of Chrysanthemum morifolium, Bixa orellana and Ipomoea batatas, were found to have potent inhibitory activity towards lens aldose reductase (AR).
(19) Sometimes the sap of plants (such as Ipomoea sp., Merremia peltata, or Ficus adenosperma) is added to the coconut water.
(20) Of the 29 strains examined, 4 could be clearly distinguished from S. ipomoea on the basis of morphological criteria, i.e., they had gray rather than blue spores and produced melanin pigment, and their low DNA relatedness to authentic S. ipomoea strains confirmed their original misidentification.
Moonflower
Definition:
(n.) The oxeye daisy; -- called also moon daisy.
(n.) A kind of morning glory (Ipomoea Bona-nox) with large white flowers opening at night.