day-neutral plant — noun (botany) A plant in which flowering is not sensitive to day length • • • Main Entry: ↑day … Useful english dictionary
day-neutral — adjective Date: 1941 developing and maturing regardless of relative length of alternating exposures to light and dark periods used especially of a plant; compare long day, short day … New Collegiate Dictionary
Plant physiology — is a subdiscipline of botany concerned with the function, or physiology, of plants.Salisbury, Frank B. Cleon W. Ross, 1992. Plant physiology , 4th ed. (Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing). ISBN 0 534 15162 0] Closely related fields include … Wikipedia
day-neu|tral plant — «DAY NOO truhl, NYOO », a plant growing and blooming independent of the amount of light: »Day neutral plants, such as dandelions, apparently are insensitive to the length of day as they will bloom in any season if they receive enough heat and… … Useful english dictionary
short-day plant — noun (botany) One that will flower only if the daily period of light is shorter than some critical length (cf ↑day neutral plant, ↑long day plant) • • • Main Entry: ↑short * * * short day plant «SHRT DAY», a plant that blooms only when its daily… … Useful english dictionary
plant disease — ▪ plant pathology Introduction an impairment of the normal state of a plant that interrupts or modifies its vital functions. All species of plants, wild and cultivated alike, are subject to disease. Although each species is… … Universalium
Short day plant — A short day plant is a plant that cannot flower under the long days of summer. Short day plants typically flower in the fall of the year. These plants require a certain number of hours of darkness in each 24 hour period (a short daylength) before … Wikipedia
reproductive system, plant — Introduction any of the systems, sexual or asexual, by which plants reproduce. In plants, as in animals, the end result of reproduction is the continuation of a given species, and the ability to reproduce is, therefore, rather conservative … Universalium
long-day — adjective Date: 1920 responding to or relating to a long photoperiod used especially of a plant; compare day neutral, short day … New Collegiate Dictionary
short-day — adjective Date: 1920 responding to or relating to a short photoperiod used especially of a plant; compare day neutral, long day … New Collegiate Dictionary
