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The solvent was removed by rotary evaporation followed by desiccation under vacuum.
This book should be found on the shelves of all those who are researching into or are interested in plant desiccation.
Samples of clay from the auger holes were tested for moisture content but did not indicate any exceptional level of desiccation.
The embryo enters a quiescent stage, accumulates storage compounds and acquires desiccation tolerance.
The Mapuche medicine woman or machi say that their source of livelihood is being directly threatened by the desiccation of native forests.
Drying rates also affect the desiccation tolerance of somatic embryos and immature zygotic embryos or seeds.
In strict terms, this process is desiccation, not lyophilization, because water removal is done at temperatures above the triple point of water.
It was thought that this behavior was an adaptation for desiccation resistance analogous to the closed shells of bivalves.
Tortula ruralis is an important model system for the study of plant vegetative desiccation tolerance.
These units contain intercalated thin, discontinuous lenses of silts and mudstones, some displaying desiccation cracks.
The unit contains abundant evidence of subaerial exposure, including caliche crusts, desiccation cracks and vadose cements.
The red mudstone horizons preserve extensive pedogenic textures and desiccation cracks indicative of mature palaeosol development.
The sediments from Dunure are frequently rippled and show examples of dewatering structures, desiccation cracks and foam marks.
The embryo matures and the seed accumulates storage products, acquires desiccation tolerance, and loses water.
Throughout the whole study, seed desiccation tolerance was quantified both in terms of water content and water activity.
The cages were covered with wet marsh grass to minimize mortality from desiccation and heat stress during the lowtide period.
An additional factor involved in desiccation tolerance is the dynamic behaviour of cell structures during dehydration.
These sugars, normally associated with the seed desiccation process, apparently are not involved in the WD responses of lupin vegetative tissues.
It has long been suggested that insects close the spiracles to prevent desiccation, minimizing water loss but exposing themselves to hypoxic stress.
Interceptor application resulted in quick desiccation of canola plants but had little activity on oat plants in the greenhouse studies.
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In this regard rapidity of desiccation and subsequent protection from oxidative processes are important factors.
The aridness, the desiccation, the lifelessness of everything about was somehow shocking.
The desiccation of Central Asia is still going on, as is also probably the upheaval of a great part of the continent.
The cap contains silicone packing inside, which provides excellent airtightness and prevents desiccation and liquid spill.
But as they entered the town a change more ominous and startling than the desiccation of the landscape forced itself upon them.
The nitrate beds are thus essentially a product of desiccation.
In fine, tanning is still a preparatory method for desiccation.
It preserves bodies well, but appears to favour their desiccation.
In the east, the country of Kanem, the desiccation has been most marked.
In about two months the process of desiccation was completed.
The physical disinfectants are sunlight, desiccation, and heat.
The preservation of biosamples includes in-vitro culture, hypothermic storage, cryopreservation, and desiccation.
The position of the paleo-shoreline was identified by the appearance of desiccation cracks in the lower Terrill Member.
Barbara Carney, who is NETL manager for the EERC project, says commercial desiccation units operate in a manner similar to flue gas desulfurization units.
In the dry season, the pools completely dry out and the fishes die, but the eggs resist desiccation and remain in the substratum during the dry period.
Terrestrial species occur in mosses, lichens, liverworts, and leaf litter, and are renowned for their ability to enter a cryptobiotic state in response to desiccation.
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