tuber in the PONS Dictionary

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The primary food crops were tubers, barley, corn, wheat, fruits, and vegetables.
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The enzyme lipoxygenase makes a hormone, jasmonic acid, which is involved in the control of potato tuber development.
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These plants are "bulbous geophytes", as they bring their buds in underground tubers or bulbs, organs that annually produce new stems, leaves and flowers.
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It frequently feeds on tuber crops, especially potatoes.
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Women forage in larger parties, and usually bring home berries, baobab fruit, and tubers, depending on availability.
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After flowering, the stems died down nearly to the tuber.
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A potato tuber with corky ringspot has large brown rings on its surface and discolored spots inside.
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He watched conidia in the soil and their infection of the tubers, observing that mycelium could survive the cold winter in the tubers.
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Tubers stored for any length of time will convert their inulin into its component fructose.
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The legislation made it possible to patent new varieties of plants (excluding tuber-propagated plants).
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