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单词 long-day
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Definition of long-day in English:

long-day

adjective
  • (of a plant) needing a long period of light each day to initiate flowering, which therefore happens naturally as the days lengthen in the spring.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Cereals of temperate origin are typically long-day plants, and this causes heading during spring and early summer, so that the crop ripens towards the end of the growing season.
    • The genetic control of flowering has been extensively studied in Arabidopsis, a quantitative long-day plant that flowers faster under long days than short days.
    • In the long-day plant Arabidopsis, flowering is accelerated under photoperiods exceeding a critical daylength.
    • Arabidopsis is classified as a facultative long-day plant, whereas maize is originally a short-day one.
    • In Arabidopsis thaliana and other long-day rosette plants, it has been shown that photoperiodic control of stem elongation is mediated by GAs.
    • It is well known that a long-day plant can be induced to flower if the long night is interrupted by a short period of light.
 
 

Definition of long-day in US English:

long-day

adjectiveˈlôNGˌdā
  • (of a plant) needing a long period of light each day to initiate flowering, which therefore happens naturally as the days lengthen in the spring.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It is well known that a long-day plant can be induced to flower if the long night is interrupted by a short period of light.
    • Arabidopsis is classified as a facultative long-day plant, whereas maize is originally a short-day one.
    • Cereals of temperate origin are typically long-day plants, and this causes heading during spring and early summer, so that the crop ripens towards the end of the growing season.
    • In the long-day plant Arabidopsis, flowering is accelerated under photoperiods exceeding a critical daylength.
    • The genetic control of flowering has been extensively studied in Arabidopsis, a quantitative long-day plant that flowers faster under long days than short days.
    • In Arabidopsis thaliana and other long-day rosette plants, it has been shown that photoperiodic control of stem elongation is mediated by GAs.
 
 
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