germination

Examples of germinating

germinating

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

To date, studies on seeds have failed to provide an enzyme as a transitional developmental marker between the dormant and germinating states.
Germinating seeds were counted and removed daily for 1 week, and then weekly for a further 4 weeks, until germination had ceased.
For example, in normal circumstances, only haploids begin growth by germinating from a spore.
Because the latter phenomenon is so closely tied to environmental attributes, the physical surroundings of germinating seeds will be discussed first.
This category includes perennial herbs and shrubs, mainly germinating during autumn and winter but maintaining a small, short-term persistent seed bank.
Rapidly germinating species were considered to be those that required <20 days to reach 50% of the seeds germinated in experiments.
In germinating seeds, the leakage of electrolytes is immediately minimized, due to the re-establishment of membrane integrity to prevent further leakage.
During imbibition of germinating soybean seeds, water from the strong and multi-molecular sites exchanges to the weak binding sites.
These changes clearly indicate the reorganization of water in germinating seeds.
All except one of the 72 pre-burn soil samples (99%) contained germinating dicot seed and 40 (56%) contained germinating monocot seed.
Both of the latter species seemed to maximize the first growth season by germinating at the beginning of the favourable season.
Like most ideas whose historical time has come, this idea is a reinterpretation of similar, older ideas that have been germinating for many years.
Mammals did not dig up buried seeds, but gnawed the germinating seedlings as soon as the white stems emerge.
When lentil seed is broadcast, some seeds remain in the soil without germinating.
Previous studies have involved germinating seeds in the continuous presence of the compound.
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