the soft down that covers the surface of many plants and insects
Word origin
Fr
Examples of 'pubescence' in a sentence
pubescence
Plants show brown pubescence, yellow seeds with brown hilum.
Manoel Albino Coelho de Miranda, Nelson Raimundo Braga, André Luiz Lourenção, FernandoToledo Santos de Miranda, Sandra Helena Unêda, Margarida Fumiko Ito 2003, 'Descrição, produtividade e estabilidade da cultivar de soja IAC-23, resistente a insetosDescription, yield and stability of early soybean insect resistant cultivar IAC-23',Bragantiahttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0006-87052003000100003. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Its potential in genetic experiments has been demonstrated in high-throughput phenotyping of wheat leaf pubescence.
Afonnikov D., M. Genaev, A. Doroshkov, V. Denisyuk, E. Morozova, A. Simonov, T. Pshenichnikova 2012, 'COMPUTER APPROACHES TO WHEAT HIGH-THROUGHPUT PHENOTYPING', Journal of Stress Physiology & Biochemistryhttp://www.jspb.ru/issues/2012/N3/JSPB_2012_3_S8.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The pubescence characteristics were the least important in the discrimination of the genotypes.
Janaina Azevedo Martuscello, Thiago Gomes dos Santos Braz, Liana Jank, Daniel de NoronhaFigueiredo Vieira da Cunha, Dilermando Miranda da Fonseca 2012, 'Genetic diversity based on morphological data in Panicum maximum hybrids', Revista Brasileira de Zootecniahttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-35982012000900002. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The years of school education are the years of rapid growth and pubescence.
A.V. Pochivalov, N.A. Fokina 2010, 'VITAMINS AND MINERALS ADMINISTRATION IN COMPLEX SANITATION OF YOUNGER SCHOOLCHILDREN',Voprosy Sovremennoj Pediatriihttps://vsp.spr-journal.ru/jour/article/view/838. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Manglietia pubipedunculata has appressed, compressed, shorter and sparser pubescence consisting of single or two cells.
Xiao-Min Hu, Qing-Wen Zeng, Ya-Si Liu, Lin Fu, Ru-Chun Xi, Hong-Feng Chen, Xiao-MeiDeng 2019, 'Manglietia pubipedunculata (Magnoliaceae), a new species from Yunnan, China', PLOS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0210254. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
However, leaf pubescence was not the determining factor.
Dale B. Gelman, Dan Gerling 2003, 'Host plant pubescence: Effect on silverleaf whitefly, Bemisia argentifolii, fourthinstar and pharate adult dimensions and ecdysteroid titer fluctuations', Journal of Insect Sciencehttp://www.insectscience.org/3.25/. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The diagnostic characters to separate them include pubescence of stems, surfaces of leaves and flower morphology.
Fu-Shan Chou, Chih-Kai Yang, Chun-Kuei Liao 2006, 'Taxonomic Status of Ophiorrhiza michelloides (Masam.) X. R. Lo (Rubiaceae) in Taiwan',Taiwaniahttp://tai2.ntu.edu.tw/taiwania/abstract.php?type=abstract&id=496. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Preliminary analysis and prediction of localization can significantly reduce the work on the mapping of genes controlling pubescence.
Doroshkov A.V., T.A. Pshenichnikova, D.A. Afonnikov 2012, 'PREDICTION OF THE STRUCTURE AND LOCALIZATION OF GENES CONTROLLING LEAF PUBESCENCEIN WHEAT TRITICUM AESTIVUM L. AND BARLEY HORDEUM VULGARE L. BASED ON ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA(L.) HEYNH. GENES DATA', Journal of Stress Physiology & Biochemistryhttp://www.jspb.ru/issues/2012/N3/JSPB_2012_3_S9.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)