Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, belonging to, resembling, or characteristic of a sporophyte.
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- adjective botany Of or pertaining to a
sporophyte plant. - adjective botany Having the characteristics of a sporophyte.
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Examples
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The PDH bypass is active in sporophytic tissue of plants.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Ming Lin Yanling Wei 2009
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To test for the presence of the PDH bypass in the sporophytic tissue of plants, Arabidopsis plants homozygous for mutant alleles of all three Family 2 ALDH genes were fed with
BioMed Central - Latest articles Ming Lin Yanling Wei 2009
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Collinsia heterophylla (Plantaginaceae): one-donor crosses reveal heritability but no effect on sporophytic-offspring fitness.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Josefin A. Madjidian et al. 2009
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As general measures of sporophytic fitness we assessed the proportion of germinated seeds, recorded the day of first flowering and counted the shoots on each individual.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Josefin A. Madjidian et al. 2009
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F1,324 = 0.37, P = 0.55, stage×cross type To determine whether gametophytic and sporophytic traits differed between populations and / or regions we subjected each variable to random-effect ANOVA with region and population (nested within region) as group variables (means of maternal families or plant individuals consist of individual data points in this analysis).
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Josefin A. Madjidian et al. 2009
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[58] - [59] whereas sporophytic fitness traits reflect adaptation to local habitat conditions
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Josefin A. Madjidian et al. 2009
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14C-ethanol into fatty acids in mutants and wild type controls provided direct evidence for the presence of the PDH bypass in sporophytic tissue.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Ming Lin Yanling Wei 2009
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