Contractile root a specialized root developed by certain bulb - and corm - forming plants that serve to pull the bulb or corm down to the appropriate depth in the soil , e . g . crocus 收缩根：在某些具有形成鳞茎或球茎的植物中特化的根结构。收缩根的作用是把形成的鳞茎或球茎定位于土壤的某一特定深度，例如番红花属的植物。
A highly aromatic , pungent spice reminiscent of ginger , turmeric , is quite different from saffron ; its taste is more bitter , and this difference increases with cooking , which also darkens the spice 一种高度芳香植物，辛辣香料让人联想到姜、姜黄，是十分不同于番红花的；它的口感是更加苦涩，并且这个区别增强在烹调上，这也使得香料变暗。
Depending on local traditions - and the cook ' s personal touch - curry may also feature mace , aniseed , caraway , fennel , fenugreek , bay leaf , poppy seeds , saffron , cayenne pepper , or mustard seeds 根据地方传统和厨师的个人风格咖哩也许以豆蔻香料、洋茴香、葛缕子(香菜) 、茴香、葫芦巴、月桂叶、罂粟种子、番红花、卡宴胡椒，或芥末种子为特色。
On the morrow one could hardly imagine that there had been three weeks of summer : the primroses and crocuses were hidden under wintry drifts ; the larks were silent , the young leaves of the early trees smitten and blackened 第二天早上，人都难以想象三个星期以来一直是夏天天气：樱草和番红花躲藏在积雪下面，百灵鸟沉默了，幼树的嫩芽也被打得发黑。
To represent the festival of santa lucia , which takes place on 13 december , girls in white gowns held candles as rotarians ate the saffron buns while listening to sweden ' s sanna nielsen sing " o holy night " in swedish 在呈现于12月13日举?的圣塔?西亚庆典时，许多穿著白袍的?孩拿著?烛，扶?社员一边享用番红花面包，一边听瑞典歌手桑纳?尔森用瑞典文演唱圣夜。
Sequence analysis showed highly similarity to other plants such as narcissus pseudonarcissus . , and they all possess a short highly conserved n - terminal sequence encoding a dinucleotide cofactor binding site . thus it is a new member of phytoene desaturase gene family 由此可认为该番红花八氢番茄红素脱氢酶基因在结构上与其它植物八氢番茄红素脱氢酶基因是同源的，是八氢番茄红素脱氢酶基因家族中的一个新成员。
But maria blond , at the head of the procession , was beginning to feel extremely bored . she was tired of hoaxing that blockhead of a tatan nene with a story to the effect that the parisian dairywomen were wont to fabricate eggs with a mixture of paste and saffron 坐在第一辆车子里的玛丽亚布隆，对塔唐内内这个笨蛋说了很多空话愚弄她，她说巴黎的乳品商用浆糊和番红花制造鸡蛋，现在她自己也感到玩笑再开下去没有意思了。
On the campus of the defunct government technology institute , one of the detention centers believed to hold people arrested during the nighttime raids , soldiers tore off monks ' saffron robes , beat them and made them “ jump like frogs , ” said a 60 - year - old monk 一位60岁的僧人说，已停止运作的政府科技学院校园是拘留所之一，政府据信在此囚禁夜间搜捕的人，士兵把僧人身上的番红花色袈裟扯下，痛打他们，要他们学青蛙跳。
For prokaryotic expression , the coding region of the cdna of the phytoene desaturase gene was cloned by pcr and inserted into a prokaryotic expression vector pet - 21a ( + ) . the gene was overexpressed in e . coli bl21 ( de3 ) and gave rise to a 63 kd mature protein in response to the iptg induction 用pcr方法扩增番红花八氢番茄红素脱氢酶( pds )编码区序列，定向克隆到表达载体pet一艺1a ( + )上，获得重组质粒pet一21a ( + ) / cspds 。
