(n.) Any plant of the genera Asclepias and Acerates, abounding in a milky juice, and having its seed attached to a long silky down; silkweed. The name is also applied to several other plants with a milky juice, as to several kinds of spurge.
Example Sentences:
(1) Experimental vein severance renders milkweed leaves edible to generalist herbivores that do not show vein-cutting behaviors and ordinarily ignore milkweeds in nature.
(2) Many mandibulate insects that feed on milkweeds, or other latex-producing plants, cut leaf veins before feeding distal to the cuts.
(3) The significance of these findings are discussed in light of the recent discovery that the C28-ecdysone, makisterone A, is the predominant molting hormone inthe embryonated egg of the milkweed bug.
(4) Chromosomal fragments and translocations induced by x-rays in the sperm of adult milkweed bugs, Oncopeltus fasciatus (Dallas), were detected in the meiotic cells of F(1), F(2), and F(3), males and caused high levels of sterility in lintreated progeny.
(5) The WWF, which carries out the census of the Mexican colonies in co-ordination with the Mexican government, says the extensive use of herbicides is wiping out vast quantities of the milkweed that provides the butterflies with their main food source and breeding grounds.
(6) But research by Lundgren and his team also found that 60% of the milkweed in their South Dakota study area was contaminated by the pesticide, which even at low levels causes monarch larvae to grow much more slowly and reach much smaller size.
(7) Polinnators are important to a huge portion of our food supply ... anything that flowers.” One reason for the decrease is a drop in the amount of milkweed, which monarch larvae eat, Lundgren said.
(8) Significant amounts of immunoreactive cardiac glycoside were found to be present in the ornamental shrubs: yellow oleander (Thevetia peruviana); oleander (Nerium oleander); wintersweet (Carissa spectabilis); bushman's poison (Carissa acokanthera); sea-mango (Cerbera manghas); and frangipani (Plumeria rubra); and in the milkweeds: redheaded cotton-bush (Asclepias curassavica); balloon cotton (Asclepias fruiticosa); king's crown (Calotropis procera); and rubber vine (Cryptostegia grandifolia).
(9) Several aromatic terpenoid ethers possess a high degree of morpho-genetic activity when assayed on the yellow mealworm Tenebrio molitor L. and the milkweed bug Oncopeltus fasciatus (Dallas).
(10) Cortisol increased growth and differentiation in the large milkweed insect (Oncopeltus fasciatus).
(11) Analysis of the sterols of the milkweed bug, Oncopeltus fasciatus (Dallas) and dietary sunflowerseeds revealed that there is little, if any, conversion of dietary C28 OR C29 phytosterols to cholesterol in this phytophagous insect.
(12) In order to determine whether the genes coding for ribosomal RNA (rRNA) are amplified in the telotrophic ovary of the milkweed bug Oncopeltus fasciatus, the percentages of the genome coding for ribosomal RNA in somatic cells, spermatogenic cells, ovarian follicles, and nurse cells were compared.
(13) The use of herbicides destroying milkweed is directly linked to the mass cultivation in the great plain states of the US of genetically modified soybean and corn crops with inbuilt resistance to chemicals that the rest of the plants in the areas sprayed do not have.
(14) We have analyzed electron micrographs of chromatin-associated fiber arrays from embryos of the milkweed bug, Oncopeltus fasciatus.
(15) Scientists are extremely concerned that monarch populations are declining because the caterpillar's only food source – milkweed – is being eradicated.
(16) The persistence of these fragments through numerous generations of cells confirmed the holokinetic nature of the milkweed bug chromosomes.
(17) SK Films, the American distributor, is encouraging audiences to grow milkweed and also to create their own butterfly gardens by selling seed-packets in cinemas.
Pollinium
Definition:
(n.) A coherent mass of pollen, as in the milkweed and most orchids.
Example Sentences:
(1) These results indicated that Zea pollinium could inhibit formation of lipid peroxidates, protect the structure and function of erythrocyte membrane from the injury of peroxidate.
(2) In this paper, the effect of Zea pollinium on the structure and function of erythrocyte membrane in rats was observed.
(3) Retinaculum spans the lateral blade of the corpusculum to the acellular beak of the pollinium.
(4) The contents of sulfhydryl and sialic acid were also increased, but the content of MDA was markedly decreased with the use of Zea pollinium.
(5) 12 male rats were divided randomly into pollen and control groups, the former was fed with diet containing 10% Zea pollinium; while no pollen for the latter.