verb
definition
Of a seed, to begin to grow, to sprout roots and leaves.
definition
To cause to grow; to produce.
Examples of germinate in a Sentence
When the tuber of a potato begins to germinate the shoots which it puts out derive their food from the accumulated store of nutritive material which has been laid up in the cells of the tuber.
They soon acquire a cell-wall, and germinate without a period of rest.
Aplanospores would seem to represent zoospores arrested in their development; without reaching the stage of motility, they germinate within the sporangium.
The spores germinate on a damp surface and enter the cortex through small cracks or wounds in the protecting layer.
Allowing for those which fail to germinate (perhaps 25%), loss in transplanting, weak and backward plants, &c., one ounce of seed should yield about 40,000 plants.
Tetraspores are at first naked, but soon acquire a cell-wall and germinate without a period of rest.
Another parable compared the kingdom of God to seed which, when once planted, must inevitably germinate; the process was secret and slow, but the harvest was certain.
In favour of the conidial view is the fact that in the case of Collema and a few other forms the spermatia have been made to germinate in artificial cultures, and in the case of Calicium parietinum Moller succeeded in producing a spermogonia bearing thallus from a spermatium.
If the seeds don't germinate in two weeks, dig a bit to see if they're still there.
In these cases, however, the potential gametes may, failing conjugation, germinate directly, like the zoospores derived from unilocular sporangia.
In 1876, however, Cohn had seen the spores germinate, and Koch, Brefeld, Pratzmowski, van Tieghem, de Bary and others confirmed the discovery in various species.
They discussed what seeds need to germinate and planted runner beans and cress.
Seeds germinate freely in a hot-bed in early spring.
The only physiological peculiarity exhibited in common by all spores is that they germinate and initiate the production of a new fungus-plant.
This is in consonance with the facts already mentioned that zoospores germinate forthwith, and that the sexually-produced cell or zygote enters upon a period of rest.
Both aplanospores and akinetes may germinate with or without the formation of zoospores at the initial stage.
Gametes which fail to conjugate sometimes assume the appearance of zygospores and germinate in due course.
During the middle of the 2nd century a number of varying christological views began to germinate, growing for a time side by side.
In rare cases the oosphere has been known to germinate without fertilization (Oedogonium, Cylindrocapsa).
Fertilization has been observed at Naples; but it apparently depends on climatic conditions, as at Plymouth the oospheres have been observed to germinate parthenogenetically.
They germinate only in the second year after sowing; in the course of their first year the seedlings attain a height of 6 to 12 in.
Gently keep your seeds moist so they can germinate properly.
The spores then germinate, and the growing bacteria produce the deadly botulism toxin.
When the spores germinate the germ-tubes surround the algal cells, which now increase in size and become the normal gonidia of the thallus.
The conidia are fragrant and are carried by bees to the stigma of the bilberry; here they germinate with the pollen and the hyphae pass with the pollen tubes down the style; the former infect the ovules and produce sclerotia, therein reducing the fruits to a mummified condition.
It is therefore obvious that, if the tubers are exposed to the air where they are liable to become slightly cracked by the sun, wind, hail and rain, and injured by small animals and insects, the spores from the leaves will drop on to the tubers, quickly germinate upon the slightly injured places, and cause the potatoes to become diseased.
These teleutospores remain inactive on the straw until spring, when they germinate in manure heaps or on moist ground and produce minute sporidia, which are conveyed by air currents to the alternate host, in this case a barberry.
The fungus-spores, from some diseased plant, alight on the stigma of the flower, and germinate there along with the pollen-grains.
Once they germinate, the plastic can be removed.
You may also wish to sow lettuce seeds, which need cool temperatures and moisture to germinate.
They are characterized especially by the zygospores, but the asexual organs (sporangia) exhibit interesting series of changes, beginning with the typical sporangium of Mucor containing numerous endospores, passing to cases where, as in Thamnidium, these are accompanied with more numerous small sporangia (sporangioles) containing few spores, and thence to Chaetocladium and Piptocephalis, where the sporangioles form but one spore and fall and germinate as a whole; that is to say, the monosporous sporangium has become a conidium, and Brefeld regarded these and similar series of changes as explaining the relation of ascus to conidium in higher fungi.
The spores, which are set free by the rotting of the sporangial wall, germinate much as in the case of Selaginella, though the similarity may be a case of independent resemblance.
Seeds germinate readily in a cold frame, but a few years elapse between sowing and flowering.
If the seeds don't germinate, you can still have more plants, because jasminum mesnyi is extremely easy to propagate by layering or cuttings.
Celmisia seed should usually be sown directly after harvest, when it is fresh, although seed will not germinate until after it has experienced winter conditions.
Seeds germinate at irregular intervals over an extended period of time.
Seeds will usually begin to germinate in about 14 days after chilling.
Using the same example of cucumbers, the seeds take eight days to germinate.
Some seeds germinate better if started directly in the garden soil; they dislike being moved.
Most seeds need warmth to germinate, and they may simply rot in the ground before sprouting if planted too soon.
Some flower seeds need to be buried to a certain depth, while others must be left near the surface of the soil so sunlight helps the seeds germinate.
This is desirable because it speeds up the process and kills any seeds that might be waiting to germinate.
This stage in the life-history was formerly regarded as a distinct fungus with the name Roestelia cancellata; it is now known, however, that the spores germinate on young juniper leaves, in which they give rise to this other stage in the plant's history known as Gymnosporangium.
The gelatinous, generally reddish-brown masses of spores - the teleutospores - formed on the juniper in the spring germinate and form minute spores - sporidia - which give rise to the aecidium stage on the pear.
The lactic acid bacillus, always present in unboiled milk (to which the souring of milk is due), is easily destroyed by heat; but the bacillus mesentericus, often found in it, forms spores, which are not destroyed by ordinary boiling, and germinate when the milk is kept at a moderately warm temperature, producing a brisk fermentation whereby a large volume of gas is liberated.
The very large single spores of Pertusaria have been shown to contain numerous nuclei and when they germinate develop a large number of germ tubes.
An epiphytic fungus is not necessarily a parasite, however, as many saprophytes (moulds, &c.) germinate and develop a loose mycelium on living leaves, but only enter and destroy the tissues after the leaf has fallen; in some cases, however, these saprophytic epiphytes can do harm by intercepting light and air from the leaf (Fumago, &c.), and such cases make it difficult to draw the line between saprophytism and parasitism.
Fungus spores will not germinate without moisture, and attention to drainage helps to keep down this and other fungus pests.
It takes only a few days for mold spores to germinate, and only a few weeks to extend hyphae and grow extensively.
Oospores germinate in wet soils to produce a sporangium which then rapidly differentiates to release zoospores.