Sentences with phrase «green revolution plants»

But Green Revolution plants typically achieved their high yields via fertilizer, irrigation water, and pesticides.

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As a fast growing plant and source of biomass, Hemp will play a huge part in this green revolution.

The start of the first Green Revolution in rice, Zeigler thought back, could have been in July 1963 when IRRI's first breeder, Peter Jennings, found F2 (second - generation) rice plants from a set of 38 crosses involving dwarf rice varieties from Taiwan.

But plant geneticist Norman Borlaug developed a high - yield, disease - resistant dwarf wheat that boosted global agricultural production — the Green Revolution.

This suggests that once this special combination of GMs was assembled, the plants proved so superior as a food crop that they were carefully propagated and widely adopted, perhaps causing something of a prehistoric Green Revolution.

Pearce strongly criticises the «green revolution», which has dramatically increased yields in some parts of the world through planting of high - input, dwarf varieties of wheat and rice.

The start of the first Green Revolution in rice, Zeigler thought back, could have been in July 1963 when IRRI's first breeder, Peter Jennings, found F2 (second - generation) rice plants from a set of 38 crosses involving dwarf rice varieties from Taiwan.

Maize is the natural focus for a Green Revolution in Africa, as it is the poor person's crop, and the most widely planted in Africa.

In combination with revolutions in plant breeding and genetics, these developments formed the foundation for the Green Revolution, rapidly increasing world food production.

Through irrigation, fertiliser, pesticides, and plant breeding, the Green Revolution increased world grain production by an astonishing 250 per cent between 1950 and 1984, raising the calorie intake of the world's poorest people and averting severe famines.

Many Green Revolution techniques could be applied to perennial crops, such as classical plant breeding to improve yield, stress tolerance, disease resistance, and other characteristics.

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People like Norman Borlaug, the father of the Green Revolution; Jim Grant, whose global immunization campaigns saved millions of children; and Wangari Maathai, whose Green Belt Movement has planted millions of trees in Kenya and trained thousands of women to be leaders in conservation.

There was a time when the green cell phone revolution seemed right around the corner — corn - based plastic phones that you could plant when you got a new model.