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What does sublethal mean?

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Adjective
  1. Less than lethal.
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Bovie and Hughes found that a sublethal dose of UV rays at 280 nm inhibited cell division of Paramecia.
In many systems, sublethal oxidative stress was found to be involved either directly or indirectly in PCD processes.
In the past, these parameters have been chosen with limited insight into the lethal and sublethal injury that may occur on a cellular level.
Other work in this field has focused on cellular and enzymatic biomarkers as indicators of sublethal effects.
What is the nature of the damage inflicted by mechanical stress and how can this damage, including sublethal damage to cells, be detected?
There was no sublethal damage to the one-day-old plants, which were all killed when attacked.

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