cultivar

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Each species or cultivar is assumed to have a specific chilling requirement, which needs to be fulfilled every winter.

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  1. noun A race or variety of a plant that has been created or selected intentionally and maintained through cultivation.

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  • However, priming of seeds with CaCl2 did not alter free polyamine levels in either cultivar, although spermidine levels were considerably lower in plants raised from seeds treated with CaCl2 for both cultivars under saline conditions. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Black Seeded Simpson Lettuce is a dynamic cultivar. —  Epinions Recent Content for Home
  • The snips added to salad makings are nice while the cultivar continues to develop, generate more leaves and mature. —  Epinions Recent Content for Home
  • You can purchase a tree from Ash as a small (grafted) cultivar for as little as $15 (ungrafted seedlings are even less), or pay hundreds of dollars or more for a tree that has been meticulously pruned by Tom Ash himself for 15 to 25 years. —  news | WM | http://www.starnewsonline.com
  • They also pitted 32 additional endophytic fungal strains against cultures of the garden cultivar in Petri plates to find out if they would restrict each others 'growth.
 

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