"plant" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- When damaged the plant secretes a white fluid which is toxic, causes severe skin irritation and may be a tumor promoting agent.
- In allelopathy, a plant secretes chemicals which make the surrounding soil uninhabitable, or at least inhibitory, to competing species.
- These plants also secrete a substance that kills growths such as mold and mildew on their own leaves.
- The mutant is immune to a stress hormone that plants secrete in times of drought.
- Especially in warm climates, plants secrete waxes as a way to control evaporation and hydration.
- The plant meanwhile secretes esterase, peroxidase, phosphatase and protease enzymes.
- There is no consensus on why plants secrete resins.
- Some plants secrete allelochemicals from their roots which inhibit the growth of other organisms.
- Contact with frass causes plants to secrete chitinase in response to its high chitin levels.
- In return for the 'fixed' nitrogen, the plant secretes sugars to the symbiotic bacteria.
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