etiolation

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Perhaps he overlooked the packets’ stern warnings about overcrowding and etiolation and damping off, their instructions to carefully sprinkle pre-wetted soil extremely sparsely with, say, five seeds at a time.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 23, 2019

False etiolation depends on a similar abeyance of the chlorophyll, but in this case due to too low a temperature.

From Disease in Plants by Ward, H. Marshall

The last, in its wild state, is said to be pernicious, but etiolation changes the products and renders them harmless.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891 by Various

Forced Endive, Rhubarb, Asparagus, and earthed Celery afford examples of etiolation purposely induced.

From Disease in Plants by Ward, H. Marshall

Attention was drawn to the fact that by virtue of the laws which Darwin himself had discovered isolation leads to etiolation.

From Darwin and Modern Science by Seward, A. C. (Albert Charles)