(n.) A growth of minute powdery or webby fungi, whitish or of different colors, found on various diseased or decaying substances.
(v. t.) To taint with mildew.
(v. i.) To become tainted with mildew.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have used bulked segregant analysis to identify three random amplified polymorphic DNA markers in lettuce linked to a gene for resistance to downy mildew.
(2) The experimental bees revealed the typical clinical picture and characteristic symptoms of mildew toxicosis and high lethality.
(3) Of the three main groups of pesticides (insecticides, fungicides and herbicides), fungicides have probably the longest history, dating back to the accidental discovery in 1882 of Bordeaux mixture and the value of copper-based preparations for the control of vine downy mildew disease.
(4) However, it inhibited some Mycobacterium and Rhodotorula, and it showed excellent control of powdery mildew of barley plants in greenhouse tests at concentrations between 31.2 and 62.5 ppm.
(5) We report here the complete amino acid sequence of a pathogen-induced putative peroxidase from wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) as deduced from cDNA clones representing mRNA from leaves infected with the powdery mildew fungus Erysiphe graminis.
(6) A population of Arabidopsis thaliana growing locally in a suburb of Zürich called Weiningen was observed to be infected with downy mildew.
(7) A full length cDNA of a barley leaf messenger, found to increase in amount during infection attempts by the powdery mildew fungus (Erysiphe graminis), is characterized.
(8) Wheat (Triticum aestivum) exhibits local acquired resistance to the powdery mildew pathogen Erysiphe graminis f. sp.
(9) He lives in a mildewed dorm room and cooks halal food for himself, subsisting on a steady diet of vegetable fried rice.
(10) Prince Charles has likened it to "a mildewed lump of elephant droppings".
(11) Recent reports from Northern China indicate that 3-NPA is also likely to be responsible for the development of putaminal necrosis with delayed dystonia in children after ingestion of mildewed sugar cane.
(12) Analysis of honey produced by suffering families indicated that the samples are highly positive for mildew affected honey and negative for other poisons.
(13) A taxonomic study of strain B-98891, which produced an antibiotic effective against powdery mildew of barley, identified it as Streptoverticillium rimofaciens.
(14) A search for practically valuable mutant genes conferring resistance to barley powdery mildew applied a screening system where four commercial varieties of barley without known genes for resistance were tested to the successful mildew race D1.
(15) In a previous publication the writers described a new pulmonary disease in rural workers who sprayed vineyards with Bordeaux Mixture, a copper sulfate solution neutralized with hydrated lime for the prevention of mildew.
(16) Food mildewed by this fungus induced forestomach tumours in rats.
(17) The amount of alpha-bromocinnamaldehyde (BCA), an anti-mildew agent, in some commercial products, was examined by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) using the following conditions: column, Nucleosil 50-5 (Nagel, 250 mm x 4.6 mm i.d.
(18) Alongside the mildewed copies of Oui , Hustler and Playboy , were stacks of Film Quarterly whose pages were charged with erotica, drama, and – best of all – a lot of European men .
(19) A random cDNA clone was identified as distinguishing near-isogenic lines for downy mildew resistance in lettuce.
(20) Genetical analyses of these dominant resistant lines included crosses to susceptible material, crosses to the ml-o variety 'Refoma', crosses among the lines, crosses to sources of known dominant resistance genes, and tests to a panel of 30 different races of barley powdery mildew.
Plight
Definition:
() imp. & p. p. of Plight, to pledge.
() imp. & p. p. of Pluck.
(v. t.) To weave; to braid; to fold; to plait.
(n.) A network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment.
(n.) That which is exposed to risk; that which is plighted or pledged; security; a gage; a pledge.
(n.) Condition; state; -- risk, or exposure to danger, often being implied; as, a luckless plight.
(n.) To pledge; to give as a pledge for the performance of some act; as, to plight faith, honor, word; -- never applied to property or goods.
(n.) To promise; to engage; to betroth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Now, a small Scottish charity, Edinburgh Direct Aid – moved by their plight and aware that the language of Lebanese education is French and English and that Syria is Arabic – is delivering textbooks in Arabic to the school and have offered to fund timeshare projects across the country.
(2) A 76-year-old British national has been held in an Iranian jail for more than four years and convicted of spying, his family has revealed, as they seek to draw attention to the plight of a man they describe as one of the “oldest and loneliest prisoners in Iran”.
(3) A prominent gay rights activist, Nikolai Alexeev, said although Fry's letter "won't change anything" at the Olympics, it would help raise awareness of the plight of LGBT Russians.
(4) Greece's desperate plight hovers over the meeting, although formally there is no mention of Greece on the agenda or in the statements drafted for the meeting.
(5) Persistent media highlighting of the plight of patients suffering from severe fatigue of unknown cause (postviral fatigue syndrome or myalgic encephalomyelitis) has at last been matched by professional attention.
(6) "But if it keeps their plight and the plight of the Arctic in the press, I think she would be happy to do it."
(7) What he didn’t foresee was that getting to know people more intimately would result in his using portraits – more than 130 so far – to raise awareness of the plight of chronic homelessness generally or that he would become passionately vocal about what has been an entrenched issue for a number of US cities for decades.
(8) Sting – a man who had split the Police to pursue a more adult-oriented career, and who would in the following year ponder such poptastic issues as how much Russians loved their children and the plight of miners – took that job in 1984, while this year it falls to Guy Garvey, who may as well just change his middle name to 6Music.
(9) Victims of the Great Depression were there in plain sight, the unemployed queuing up in breadlines, their plight unambiguous.
(10) Qatar had vowed to reform the industry after the Guardian exposed the desperate plight of many of its migrant workers last year.
(11) I keep going and going and going.” 17) Being ahead of the curve July 2008: Two years before the Qatar vote, addresses the plight of exploited workers denied liveable pay and conditions.
(12) The legitimate focus on the plight of refugees on Nauru has overshadowed the impact of Australian policies on that island nation, a closely integrated society of just 10,000 people.
(13) Last week the International Consortium of British Pensioners (ICBP), which represents expat campaigning groups in Australia and Canada, launched its new Pension Justice website , aimed at highlighting their plight.
(14) Few measures have elicited more anger – or ingenious forms of revolt – than the property tax announced by Greek ministers to plug a budget black hole that might have gone unnoticed had Greece's plight not threatened the entire eurozone.
(15) With 73,000 people killed and large parts of its cities and villages destroyed in the north by the disaster, the plight of 2.5 million people left homeless hung in the balance.
(16) They seem to be unaware of the plight of this particular group of British savers.
(17) We have long been campaigning on the issue of income drawdown restrictions and so are pleased to see the government taking heed of the plight of these savers.
(18) But the strike proved a seminal moment in the British labour movement, drawing attention to the overlooked plight of female migrant workers – and generating admiration for Desai's tenacity.
(19) As for Aloisi's plight, Popovic declined to offer advice.
(20) Restrictions on local news agencies and newspapers seem to have eased recently with a few going as far as breaking the taboo on reporting the plight of political prisoners or the house arrests of opposition leaders.