moisture stress
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moisture
noun[U]
uk/ˈmɔɪs.tʃər/us/ˈmɔɪs.tʃɚ/
a liquid such as water in the form of very small drops, either in the air, in a substance, or on ...
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stress
noun
uk/stres/us/stres/
great worry caused by a difficult situation, or something that causes ...
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The extent of yield reduction due tomoisturestress, however, was different among the parental lines and the various cross combinations.
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Furthermore, the apparently facultative loss of canopy in partly deciduous species is best explained as a direct response tomoisturestress.
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The expression of heterosis for grain yield was greater undermoisturestressconditions than under well-watered conditions.
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Differences inmoisturestressare thought to have a minor role in the distribution of humus in the plot.
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The mid-summer dry weather combined with high temperatures producedmoisturestress, and reduced forage yields.
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Spikelets that developed undermoisturestresscycles throughout maturation after-ripened more slowly than those with such cycles only at the final stages of seed maturation.
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Mid-parent heterosis for grain yield was found to be as high as 72 and 127 % under well-watered andmoisturestressconditions, respectively.
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On the other handmoisturestressduring this period might cause a reduction in both panicle length and grain size.
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Several flag leaf morphogenetic parameters have been identified which contribute to themoisturestresstolerance of wheat.
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The latter would have migrated upward in the soil column during times of deforestation andmoisturestressor laterally through coarse-grained strata.
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Added to the risk ofmoisturestresssoon after planting that may completely wipe out the bean crop, this creates a volatile crop environment.
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We conclude thatmoisturestressduring the dry season may indeed limit the potential for monsoon forest trees to develop asynchronous leaf flush and flowering strategies.
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Adaptations of tropical trees tomoisturestress.
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These constituted themoisturestresstreatments and, except for the periods of stress, the irrigation for all treatments was the same as that for control plots.
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Heterosis and genetic distance in durum wheat general heterozygosity among parental lines cannot be a useful predictor of heterosis or hybrid performance under eithermoisturestressor normal growing conditions.
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Biologically, these processes involve the physiological and behavioural response of ticks to temperature,moisturestressand day length that result in specific patterns of seasonal population dynamics and host relationships.
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