Sentences with phrase «long dormancy»

Meanwhile, Solowey is working to revive other age - old trees from their long dormancy.

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.

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.

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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.

More than just an insurance policy against late frosts or unexpected dry spells, it turns out that seed dormancy has long - term advantages too: Plants whose seeds put off sprouting until conditions are more certain give rise to more species, finds in a team of researchers working at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center in North Carolina.

The team of Luis Lopez - Molina, professor at the Department of Botany and Plant Biology of UNIGE's Faculty of Science, Switzerland, has been interested for a long time in the mechanisms controlling germination, arguably the most critical decision in the life of a plant: «We have discovered that the genes involved in the synthesis of cutin, a waterproof substance, are important for the maintenance of dormancy in seeds of Arabidopsis thaliana, a small plant widely used as a model organism to study plant biology.

Studying the molecular mechanisms that enable the metastatic cells to remain in dormancy for so long and then wake up and generate these macrometastases will allow us to develop therapies to prevent relapse, or, if metastasis occurs, to make it chronic or even stop it from spreading.

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,

Mega Man is back after 7 long years of dormancy.

Adventure games are currently enjoying a renaissance after a long period of dormancy.

A team of Berkeley Lab researchers has performed molecular level analysis of desert biological soil crusts — living ground cover formed by microbial communities — to reveal how long - dormant cyanobacteria become activated by rainfall then resume dormancy when the precipitation stops.