turn yellow

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When exposed to excessive darkness the leaves of the mutant, COG-free plants began to turn yellow, wrinkled, and thin -- signs the plants were dying.

From Science Daily • Jan. 17, 2024

"The damage is enormous because the trees have been infected by bacteria… You can see this tree, it is green, but the leaves are starting to turn yellow, which means it may be diseased."

From BBC • Sep. 29, 2023

Finally, the leaves turn yellow in the fall.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2023

And in 2015 researchers at the University of California, San Diego, created a lab-based gene drive in the innocuous vinegar flies Drosophila that simply made all the flies’ eyes turn yellow.

From Scientific American • Jan. 13, 2023

Already the nights were getting chilly, and leaves were starting to turn yellow and orange.

From "Maybe He Just Likes You" by Barbara Dee