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- verb Present participle of
senesce .
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Mechanisms to compensate for low nutrient availability include the conservation of nutrients in nutrient-poor tissues, resorption of nutrients from senescing tissues, enhanced rates of nutrient uptake at low temperatures, increased biomass of roots relative to shoots, associations with mycorrhizal fungi, uptake of nutrients in organic forms, and uptake of nitrogen by rhizomes.
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As the summer wraps up in northern Mongolia, the flowers are senescing and some species from the beginning of the season are already setting seeds.
NYT > Home Page By DANIEL S. SONG 2011
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"Our results are saying that if cells in these experiments are senescing and undergoing apoptosis, any conclusions we draw from that might not apply to what drugs are being tested on them, but from how the cells were derived,"
Scientific American 2010
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Assistance to a senescing matriarch might reflect misdirected (non-adaptive) behaviors that accrue no long-term or indirect fitness benefits to those helping.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Lisa C. Davenport 2010
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Alternatively, assistance to a senescing mother might be adaptive, providing indirect fitness benefits to existing and/or future offspring of all family members
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Lisa C. Davenport 2010
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Similarly, retinal pigment epithelium cells derived from iPSC began senescing in the first passage, indicating the observed phenomenon is not limited to blood and vascular lineages.
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"Our results are saying that if cells in these experiments are senescing and undergoing apoptosis, any conclusions we draw from that might not apply to what drugs are being tested on them, but from how the cells were derived,"
Scientific American 2010
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Most varieties of wheat have septoria lesions on the old senescing leaves, and fresh net blotch lesions are evident on winter barley varieties
FWi - All News 2009
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Most varieties of wheat have septoria lesions on the old senescing leaves, and fresh net blotch lesions are evident on winter barley varieties Cassata and Pearl.
FWi - All News 2009
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While autumnal red could therefore still be a signal of the tree's quality, it could also serve to mask the over-attractive yellow that is unveiled in senescing leaves.
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