growth regulator
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgrowthandregulator
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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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regulator
noun[C]
uk/ˈreɡ.jə.leɪ.tər/us/ˈreɡ.jə.leɪ.t̬ɚ/
a device used to control things such as the speed of a clock, the temperature in a ...
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(Definition ofgrowthandregulatorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofgrowth regulator
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Reducing height and lodging in rapeseed with growth regulators.
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Timing applications of growth regulators to alter spring cereal development at high latitudes.
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Do not confuse withgrowthregulatorherbicide damage where the leaves will be elongated and which usually occurs in a pattern such as along a field edge.
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Each batch was divided into five parts for five chemical analyses: minerals, organic acids, soluble sugars, amino acids and growth regulators.
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A further 0.23 received products containing growth regulators and less than 0.01 of sheep were treated with pour-on formulations containing avermectins.
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Thegrowthregulatorcyromazine represented 0.84 of the quantity of active ingredients applied in pour-on treatments.
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The level of eachgrowthregulatorin each sample was measured five times and the values were corrected for recovery.
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Generally, the application of agrowthregulatorto late seeded cotton increased boll number, especially the number of bolls located in the upper part of the plant (unpublished data).
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Thegrowthregulatorreduced the mean height of the plants, mean number of nodes, mean internode length and the aerial biomass; while it increased harvest index.
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The effect of agrowthregulatoron yield manifests itself when environmental conditions are unfavourable, or when the growth cycle of the cotton plant extends in time.
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At the same time, large and significant yield increases were obtained in response to nitrogen and, to a lesser extent, with seed rate, but not to plantgrowthregulator.
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Ethephon, a plantgrowthregulatorproduct that is converted to ethylene after metabolism by the plant, can be used to increase fruit and seed production.
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They were discovered in the 1940s after a long study of the plantgrowthregulatorauxin.
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Instead, it acts as agrowthregulator, mimicking natural juvenile hormone of insects.
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Pesticides were classified as insecticides, miticides, herbicides, crop preparation growth regulators and defoliants.
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These ingredients are usually acquired abroad, with the agar and growth regulators being the most costly.
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It is likely that increases in sensitivity to growth regulators constitute part of the after-ripening phenomenon shown by some seeds.
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The principal growth regulators include auxins, abscisic acid, ethylene, cytokinins and gibberellins.
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Other chemicals basically comprise growth regulators and herbicides.
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Five growth regulators were analysed and detected in cacao endosperm at the chosen stages.
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