vegetative growth
collocation in Englishmeaningsofvegetativeandgrowth
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vegetative
adjective
uk/ˈvedʒ.ɪ.te.tɪv/us/ˈvedʒ.ə.teɪ.t̬ɪv/
alive but showing no ...
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growth
noun
uk/ɡrəʊθ/us/ɡroʊθ/
The growth of a person, animal, or plant is its process of increasing ...
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Concurrent with these increases invegetativegrowth, the removal treatments delayed fruiting and decreased pod yields, but had no effects on pod size.
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Those studies reported decreased plant height, increased leaf and branch production, smaller leaves and prolongedvegetativegrowth.
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Durations from sowing to 50% seedling emergence (t50%) were recorded and the number of leaves on the main stem counted during earlyvegetativegrowth.
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The limitedvegetativegrowthperiod of medium duration varieties prevented excessive production of vegetative biomass.
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In the presence of appropriate nutrients, spores respond rapidly by germination and outgrowth, resumingvegetativegrowth.
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After reproduction, plants showed reducedvegetativegrowthin the following year (in 1994).
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Which abiotic factors limitvegetativegrowthin a vascular epiphyte?
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However, the deviations from the regression of yield on a measure ofvegetativegrowthwill provide important information on the material under investigation.
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Trees subjected to severe thinning intensities showed earlier recovery of starch reserves and bettervegetativegrowththan the control.
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The relationship betweenvegetativegrowthand sporulation seems to be quite complex and needs thorough investigation.
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Forage was harvested while still in thevegetativegrowthstage, when there was sufficient available to be grazed.
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Pruning could be used to extendvegetativegrowth, delay and stagger pod production, and increase young leaf and pod yields.
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In bi-parental crosses involving diverse cocoa types, general combining abilities predominate for yield,vegetativegrowth, yield efficiency and bean weight.
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Effect of winter chilling on fruitfulness andvegetativegrowthin the olive.
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As has been pointed out previously, nitrate pools in the stems could act to regulate and maintain fruit yield at the expense ofvegetativegrowth.
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Experience had shown that this practice did not cause a perceptible check tovegetativegrowth.
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The objective of this paper is to examine the earlyvegetativegrowthof diverse legume cover crops.
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These results suggest that blends, in general, behaved similarly duringvegetativegrowthto the average of the component genotypes.
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