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So-called adventitious roots grow from a different layer of plant cells than regular, lateral roots.
Then, as if in tribute to the adventitious nature of idea generation, the solution came to him in his sleep.
It was an adventitious consequence of the fixing of the date of the hearing.
After all, we have dealt with adventitious GM presence in maize previously on several occasions.
Indeed, it has been proposed that these adventitious materials play a role in in meso crystallization.
Although both mutants were isolated, each is morphologically distinct, suggesting adventitious genetic alterations.
Asymmetrical patches of growing feathers were considered adventitious replacement and not scored as molt.
In adventitious embryony, the embryo develops directly from nucellar or chalazal tissue without an intervening gametophyte stage.
The total number of primary adventitious roots per plant was closely correlated with corm dry weight.
Plants were washed carefully out of soil and the individual adventitious roots originating from the stem base were removed for testing.
After removal, such stem segments could produce adventitious roots under moist soil conditions, and produce new plants.
The young parasite then develops a tubercle, with adventitious roots and a shoot.
Oxygen transport from shoot through adventitious roots has been visualized directly.
If adventitious rooting could be introduced into a crop like cotton, it could lead to new production efficiencies.
One possible source for this high frequency dispersion could be trace amounts of adventitious oxygen or contributions from iron.
In tidying up or polishing the former the roughness and irregularity of the latter is discarded like so much adventitious dross.
Programmed cell death also takes place in the cortex of adventitious roots to form aerenchyma.
Once the apex of a lignotuber penetrates below ground, it forms rhizomatous tissue that can generate both aerial shoots and adventitious roots.
What the audience identify with are the apparently adventitious features imposed by the logic of the form itself.
The narrative perhaps shares with a good many other such accounts the adventitious quality of a just so story.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The brass coverings defend both bulbs from solar radiation, or any adventitious source of heat.
Let me make this experiment, with no adventitious help of patronage or introduction.
Now that we've settled that point, let's divide the adventitious circumstances.
The like affections, natural and adventitious, in all such things do happen.
It occasionally happens that an adventitious bud arises from the axil of a monocarpellary pistil.
In proliferous flowers the pistil is often completely defective, its place being occupied by the adventitious bud or axis.
Nevertheless the picture that tells a story calls in adventitious aid.
And, indeed, the character of the Syrian monarch does by no means stand in need of any adventitious embellishment.
Things he did, no matter how adventitious or spontaneous, struck the popular imagination as remarkable.
Wordsworth was determined to owe nothing to such an adventitious cause.
Formation of adventitious flowers and fruits within the ovary.
Not, indeed, that these depended on adventitious aids to remembrance.
Neither the pride nor the safety of the more important States or confederacies would permit them long to submit to this mortifying and adventitious superiority.
He scarcely knew a hard chair from a soft one, and he possessed a talent for stretching his legs which quite dispensed with adventitious facilities.
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