vernalization in a sentence

Examples

1. Our recent work has focused on a mechanistic understanding of vernalization and on the pathways that determine a requirement for vernalization.
2. Winter varieties do not flower until springtime because they require vernalization : exposure to low temperatures for a genetically determined length of time.
3. Decrease in potential yields is likely to be caused by shortening of the growing period, decrease in water availability and poor vernalization.
4. In winter annual " Arabidopsis ", vernalization of the meristem appears to confer competence to respond to floral inductive signals.
5. Many plants grown in temperate climates require vernalization and must experience a period of low winter temperature to initiate or accelerate the flowering process.
6. Due to plant flowering requiring the successful co-operation of several metabolic pathways, computer models that incorporate vernalization have also been made.
7. Instead of performing controlled experiments, Lysenko claimed that vernalization increased wheat yields by 15 %, solely based upon questionnaires taken of farmers.
8. Lysenko's vernalization practices yielded marginally greater food production on the farms, and he was quickly accepted as the hero of Soviet agriculture.
9. The process of vernalization was falsely assumed to be a stably inherited genetic memory passed on to subsequent generations by the Russian geneticist Trofim Lysenko.
10. Where winters are too warm for vernalization or exceed the hardiness of the crop ( which varies by species and variety ), farmers grow spring varieties.