nutritious

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Examples of nutritive

nutritive
Possibly emerging young larvae still sustained some nutritive reserves from the egg stage.
In mature galls, a multi-layered band of sclereids differentiates, enclosing the nutritive tissue completely.
The absorption patterns can be related either to distinct chemical entities or to more aggregated expressions of nutritive value.
Thus, while some studies examined quality in terms of both sensory and nutritive characteristics, others differentiate sensory characteristics from nutritive attributes.
Fully grown yolk platelets are the destination of most of the proteinaceous nutritive material to be internalised.
The latter were for the attachment of oxygen, or for nutritive consumption.
He developed the ' hay value theory' to express the nutritive value of a feed in relation to a standard feed, viz. ' good meadow hay'.
Only whole plant samples were taken for the determination of nutritive quality as most plant parts are readily consumed.
For it is manifest that they possess faculties (such as the nutritive soul) which accomplish actions for the sake of some end.
Seeds can be further coated with protective and nutritive substances, and they can carry endophytic microorganisms within their tissues.
Heritabilities of nutritive quality factors and interrelationships with yield in tetraploid crested wheatgrass.
After feeding for many months, the larva pupates and the active nutritive tissue degenerates.
It is possible that the caching rates vary depending on the nutritive value or palatability of each species of fruit to musky rat-kangaroos.
In addition to its nutritive value, cereal straw represents an important income for smallholder agriculture.
A three- to four-layer wide sclerenchymatous tissue differentiated around the active nutritive tissue at this stage of gall development.
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