Example sentences for: germination

How can you use “germination” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • For chronic O 3 treatment, plants were transferred to the experimental chambers 3 weeks after germination, allowed to acclimate 1-2 days, and then maintained in clean air (controls) or treated with 0.15 μl/liter O 3 for 6 h per day for up to 9 days.

  • Using antibodies to mouse dynein, two 400 kDa proteins were identified in tobacco pollen during pollen germination [ 10] suggesting the presence of dynein in pollen tubes.

  • Well-studied examples include the promotion of fruit ripening by ethylene, regulation of the cell cycle by auxin and cytokinin, induction of seed germination and stem elongation by GA, and the maintenance of seed dormancy by ABA.

  • Soluble sugars, such as glucose and sucrose, have been postulated to act as signaling molecules that help regulate a wide variety of plant developmental and physiological processes [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 ] . These processes include flowering [ 14 15 16 17 ] , seed germination [ 18 19 20 ] and photosynthesis [ 21 22 ] . One of the most thoroughly characterized sugar-regulated processes is the breakdown of starch by germinating cereal seeds.

  • Mannose is a glucose analog that has been postulated to affect seed germination [ 19 ] and sugar-regulated gene expression [ 31 32 ] via a signaling pathway that requires hexokinase activity.


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