单词 | scotophase |
释义 | scotophasen. 1. Botany. A stage in the development of a cereal crop (esp. wheat) where short day length is necessary. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > development, growth, or degeneration > [noun] > growth > stage of growth stage1882 rhagon1887 sensitive period1905 scotophase1939 1939 Herbage Rev. 7 186 In earlier studies..the requirement of these plants [sc. wheat and other cereals] for darkness (the ‘dark’ phase or scoto-phase if the nomenclature is kept uniform) was not accounted for. 1941 Bot. Gaz. 102 734 Following the scoto-phase, vernalized plants of winter wheat require light and a high temperature. 2. Chiefly Biology. A period of darkness, esp. one that is artificially imposed; an artificial night. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > period > [noun] logarithmic phase1914 prothrombin time1927 log phase1938 turnover time1943 survival time1947 pulse1960 scotophase1962 1962 Biol. Bull. 122 3 The period of light within the photoperiod is referred to as the photophase; conversely, the dark portion of the photoperiod is termed the scotophase. 1971 Nature 6 Aug. 401/2 Bovines restrained inside environmentally controlled stalls (24 ± 3° C; 70 ± 7% relative humidity; 12 h photophase: 12 h scotophase per 24 h photocycle). 2007 Florida Entomologist 90 715 Mating activity may be constrained during scotophase in part by cooler temperatures and lack of light. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1939 |
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