phototropic 的定义
Botany.
- growing toward or away from the light.
- taking a particular direction under the influence of light.
更多phototropic例句
- For the past decade, he has used the phototropic properties of cyanobacteria to produce images in Petri dishes.
- Thus the leaflets of Mimosa pudica acted on by light from above fold upwards, the phototropic effect being positive.
- But the same leaflets acted on by light from below exhibit a folding upwards, the phototropic effect being now negative.
- This has even led to assumption that there are phototropic particles which function like statoliths in geotropic organs.
- As the responsive movement is towards light, the phototropic effect must be regarded as positive.
- I shall now describe the phototropic effect of unilateral light in pulvinated, and in growing organs.