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inflorescence

a specialized branching stem bearing flowers; for example, a male CATKIN. Each individual flower may be small and insignificant but collectively they can sometimes produce a large, showy structure such as is found in the lupin.
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The average of thrips found per inflorescence was 20 adults and 40 nymphs.
New records of thrips species on mango and natural enemies associated/ Novos registros de especies de tripes em mangueira e inimigos naturais asociados
The uncultivated area displayed greater species richness (uncultivated: 1.57 [+ or -] 0.9; cultivated: 0.79 [+ or -] 1.4) and abundance (uncultivated: 6.9 [+ or -] 9.0; cultivated: 2.4 [+ or -] 5.0) per inflorescence (richness: U = 7,059; Z=-4.7; P< 0.001; abundance: U = 6,701; Z=-4.5; P< 0.001).
Interaction and distribution of beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) associated with Heliconia bihai (Heliconiaceae) inflorescences
This review is intended: (1) to interpret and characterize the morphological variations observed in the structure of enrichment axes, located below the terminal inflorescence in Poaceae; and (2) to study the relationship between the intensity of development of such axes and the complexity of the tenninal inflorescence.
Trophotagma Enrichment Axes in Poaceae
Morphological characteristics used in the phenetic analysis of black pepper cultivars include all parts of the black pepper plant, including the leaf, inflorescence, fruit, seed, and shoot tips.
Phenetic Analysis of Cultivated Black Pepper (Piper nigrum L.) in Malaysia
Inflorescence from rhizome or root-stock, imbricate type, inflorescence 5-10 cm long, or longer, head c.
Amomum bungoensis: A New Species of Amomum (Zingiberaceae) from Sarawak, Malaysia
The contigs with matched ESTs solely from inflorescences and those with significantly more matched ESTs from inflorescence tissues than from any of the other four types of tissues were considered to be the putative genes predominantly expressed in inflorescences.
Identification of Wheat Inflorescence Development-Related Genes Using a Comparative Transcriptomics Approach
Effect of extraction solvents on the phenolic compounds and antioxidant activities of bunga kantan (Etlingera elatior Jack.) inflorescence. Journal of Food Composition and Analysis, 24(4): 615-619.
The Utilization of Sikala (Etlingera elatior) As Traditional Medicine in Porehu District, North Kolaka Regency, Southeast Sulawesi Province, Indonesia
Flower development and nectar production: Inflorescence and flower development were recorded on 20 randomly chosen individuals in the field in the 2013 flowering season.
Alta capacidad de autofecundacion y baja visitacion de polinizadores en la epifita polinizada por colibries Pitcairnia heterophylla (Bromeliaceae) en un bosque montano en Costa Rica
To estimate seed production as a product of autonomous self-fertilization and to determine whether this differs between cytotypes, we applied loose-fitting mesh bagging to an entire inflorescence on six plants in each population before flowers opened.
The reproductive ecology of diploid and tetraploid galax urceolata
Bulbs were defined as the swollen basal portion after the thinner elongated portion, made up of the dried senescent portions of the inflorescence and associated leaf bases, was removed.
Significance of bulb polarity in survival of transplanted mitigation bulbs

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