drought stress
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdroughtandstress
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drought
noun[C or U]
uk/draʊt/us/draʊt/
a long period when there is little or ...
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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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Future global warming may also have an impact by increasingdroughtstressand mortality among defoliated trees.
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Leaves were harvested on the sixteenth day ofdroughtstress.
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The second crop in a double cropping system that includes soybean is likely to fail because ofdroughtstressat the end of the season.
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Under anticipateddroughtstress, defoliation could be an important management practice to reduce drought-induced yield decrease, but this needs to be tested under field conditions.
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Thus, leaf production was enhanced by the light availability for each individual, while leaf fall may have been enhanced bydroughtstress.
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Varied rates of mycorrhizal inoculum on growth and nutrient acquisition on barley grown withdroughtstress.
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Heterosis and mixing effects in barley underdroughtstress.
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Other traits measured occasionally are lodging resistance, reaction to diseases, cold damage and wilting due todroughtstress.
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The role ofdroughtstressin provoking outbreaks of phytophagous insects.
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Effect of maize plant detasseling on grain yield, tolerance to high density anddroughtstress.
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Under moderatedroughtstress, grain protein concentrations have reportedly increased14,22,23, yet tend to decrease under more extreme moisture deficits24.
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Wilting underdroughtstressis a very commonly observed phenomenon, and indeed is probably the most widely used indicator of plantdroughtstress.
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The associations of a positive grain yield heterosis with specific trait heterosis under end-of-seasondroughtstressvaried with the timing of the stress.
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The results of that study showed that the extent of yield progress was restricted bydroughtstress.
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All four parameters decline as the degree ofdroughtstressincreases, but the form of the response varies according to the parameter.
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Irrigation of the field was maintained to avoiddroughtstress.
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Frequencies of different seasonal patterns ofdroughtstressare related to location effects on hybrid yields.
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While the temporary impacts ofdroughtstressare visually striking, plant phenology appears to be little affected.
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