Sentences with word «dormancy»

The Flintstones, long the most popular and successful animated franchise on television, awakens from fourteen years of dormancy in The Flintstones and WWE: Stone Age Smackdown,

EBB1 also plays a role in suppressing genes that prepare trees for dormancy in the fall and in other processes such as nutrient cycling and root growth that are critical for survival.

What is more, they point out that the Red Planet wobbles on its rotation axis, producing a regular cycle of climate swings that would drive bacteria into dormancy for long enough to accumulate such doses, before higher temperatures enabled the survivors to recover and multiply.

They developed modified trees that overproduced EBB1 genes and emerged from dormancy earlier in the year.

«The temperature cue for breaking dormancy was overridden by the day length cue.»

«This provides evidence of a molecular genetic mechanism that is at work, coordinating adaptation of seed dormancy and flowering traits in the plants to accommodate environmental conditions,» said study co-author Heqiang «Alfred» Huo, a postdoctoral researcher in the Bradford lab.

The increase in sunlight causes hens to start laying after their winter dormancy period, and thus the cycle of birth begins again.

«Nor can financial institutions impose dormancy fees or maintenance fees within the first year of the product's activation.»

A new paper published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute shows that arsenic in drinking water may have one of the longest dormancy periods of any carcinogen.

She continued to develop these models and to investigate the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying human tumor dormancy as an instructor in Folkman's lab and later as an Assistant Professor at the Center of Cancer Systems Biology at Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston.

The site's unpredictable cycles of frenzied activity and long dormancy have to do with his also being an Associate Professor of English and Gender & Sexuality Studies at Northwestern, where his research and teaching mostly concern narrative film in different eras, genres, and countries.

And yet, when the lights fade on Brazil and the competition comes to a close, I suspect most of that spectating excitement will lapse into dormancy until the next World Cup or summer Olympics.

Fall means the renewal process is starting, then the Winter time means dormancy and a chance for rebirth of the flowers (not to mention the wrecked vehicles!

Switchgrass and prairie cordgrass, both native perennial grasses grown for biomass, come out of dormancy when the soil warms up for a week or more, usually in April.

Meteorologists said March 2012, the earliest spring since 1900, prematurely interrupted winter plant dormancy.

«Climate change may confuse plant dormancy cycles.»

Even though prairie cordgrass is known to be cold tolerant, if short days force it back into dormancy after emergence, it still may have lower yields.

Many deciduous tree species require cold temperatures, in other words «chilling», for dormancy release, and the warming - related reductions in chilling may counteract the advance of leaf unfolding in response to warming.

His efforts seek to define how tumor cells escape dormancy for growth, invasion, and metastasis, and how to best develop strategies for therapy.

The second is that when Lake Erie freezes over temperatures don't warm up prematurely so crops are not damaged coming out of dormancy before the last killing frost of the season.

Depicting display cabinets and industrial storage units laden with the tools of a broad range of trades, from crates of fresh produce and canisters of paint, to cleaning supplies, camera apparatus and spare automobile parts, the Scaffali evoke a sense of dormancy at odds with the ever fluctuating presence of the viewer.

With Seismic Shuffle, Moyer invites us to the psychic interval between dormancy and the incipient rumblings of a new age.

Arch Point, Santa Barbara Island: With winter rains, the coreopsis emerges from summer's dormancy with light green foliage and bright yellow daisy - like flowers

It's far more sticky — for example, we charge a nominal dormancy fee to those that don't use the card in three months, just to encourage people to either use the card or shut it down.

This survival mechanism, called dormancy, helps prevent germination in the fall, just before cold weather would kill the seedlings.

The strongest dormancy appears in wild varieties, such as chiltepins, which overwinter well.

However, because peppers are perennials that are grown as annuals in the U.S., the degree of dormancy varies from variety to variety.

The trick to over wintering is to control growth or manage dormancy.

An interesting phenomenon in all this is the seeming dormancy of the Conservative Party.

The time, difficulty and expense required to gather information on masses of citizens have decreased exponentially, and the motivation to use such information for evil purposes can be aroused from dormancy just as easily.

But unlike a human on bed rest for, say, six months, bears in dormancy don't experience severe muscle atrophy.

The next step is to determine if follicles naturally heading toward dormancy could be persuaded to return to an active state.

During the last extended period of solar dormancy, from 1645 to 1715, Europe plunged into some of the coldest winters on record.

They showed how ANG maintains stem cells by inducing a state of quiescence, or cellular dormancy, the first known evidence of ANG's suppressive activity.

«Natives suspected that these animals might be undergoing some kind of dormancy response because they suddenly disappear during winter,» says Kathrin Dausmann, a biologist at Philipps University in Marburg, Germany.

For example, mutant seeds unable to synthesize ABA lack dormancy and may even germinate while still attached to the mother plant.

The magnetic field shields the planet from the worst excesses of its star, which then settles into a state of relative dormancy it can stay in for trillions of years.

In the lab, they were bred and then, after they had entered dormancy, exposed to artificial light of various lengths to determine how much daylight they needed to sense before waking up.

The 15 - centimeter - long tortoises feed when rains fill swampy habitats in winter, and then enter a state of dormancy known as estivation when the swamps dry out to clay pans in the late spring or early summer.

Taking advantage of data compiled over more than forty years by University of Kentucky seed scientists Jerry and Carol Baskin, who were also co-authors on the study, researchers analyzed seed dormancy data for more than 14,000 species of trees, shrubs, vines and herbs from across the globe.

This suggests that passing through the lizard's digestive tract breaks the seeds» dormancy through some chemical changes.»

They also showed that trees with less EBB1 activity emerged from dormancy later.

«This lower sensitivity of trees to climate change likely reflects the reduced cold during winter that delays dormancy release.

The working hypothesis of the Herlyn lab is that tumor - maintenance cells (tumor stem cells) are central to dormancy due to their non-proliferation or very slow turnover and their non-responsiveness to growth signals.

Nutrient enrichment induces dormancy and decreases diversity of active bacteria in salt marsh sediments.

Assess basic mechanisms that control residual disease dormancy onset, maintenance and reactivation.

To begin, it's essential to know that the hormones that regulate the menstrual cycle are in a state of total dormancy while one is taking birth control pills.