0 present participle of wilt
1 (of a plant) to become weak and begin to bend towards the ground, or (of a person) to become weaker, tired, or less confident:
It feeds on the phloem in leaf sheaths, causing wilting and drying of the leaves.
Early wilting should then lead to higher drought survival, which is contrary to our findings.
Severe wilting will cause fruit to feel spongy and beans may become desiccated.
The correlations were robust to different timings of the assessments, and to differences in the categorization of wilting (data not shown).
Other traits measured occasionally are lodging resistance, reaction to diseases, cold damage and wilting due to drought stress.
Half of the experimental unit was then left without water until severe wilting was observed.
These activities bring about a very premature wilting and death of the leaves which reflects seriously upon the food storage process within the bulb.
Hence, we expected to find a rather complex relationship between wilting and leaf water potentials.
