Sentences with phrase «agricultural applications»

Some 20 countries and major aid agencies rely on the tablets in emergency and disaster scenarios; the tablets have agricultural applications too.

The ultimate aim: this system could be used for automated cucumber farming and other agricultural applications.

Researching agricultural applications of biotechnology, Steve Evans (left) has helped develop a number of hybrid crop seeds that grow into plants resistant to insects and tolerant of herbicides.

Before that, Evans worked at the U.S. Department of Agriculture to blend high - resolution chemical analysis with enzymology to research agricultural applications of biotechnology.

In agricultural applications, that means you also need a strong background in areas such as soils, crop production, pest management, crop biology, and / or social sciences such as economics and sociology, depending on the type of position you're interested in.

Instead, the Roslin team's research is aimed at agricultural applications.

These impressive basic biology discoveries have been translated into agricultural applications that are benefiting some of the poorest people on Earth.

Knowledgeable about a broad spectrum of chemical manufacturing processes, particularly associated with agricultural applications.

«Deep learning approaches have just started to be applied for agricultural applications, and we foresee a huge potential of such technologies for future innovations in this area,» says Jian Peng, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at U of I, and a co-author and co-principal investigator of the new study.

ACR's objective in developing this methodology was to create an accounting framework that offers both credibility and integrity for reducing atmospheric emissions from agricultural applications.

The principal differences between organic farming and conventional farming are the former's extensive restriction of the use of artificial pesticides, fertilisers and other agro-chemicals; its hostility to the agricultural application of biotechnology; its rejection of the routine use of pharmaceuticals on livestock; its attention to animal welfare; and its focus on crop rotation, soil quality and maintaining biological diversity as alternatives to chemicals.

The space isn't only confined to pharma either, as science company DuPont also formed alliances with Lithuania's Vilnius University and Caribou Biosciences, with a specific interest in plant breeding and agricultural applications.

«This appears to be the earliest indicator of drought that we have for agricultural applications,» Strano says.

«Biodegradable plastics have the potential to solve a number of waste - management issues, especially for disposable packaging that can not be easily separated from organic waste in catering or from agricultural applications,» according to the report.

Perhaps most promising is an agricultural application: «If a farmer wanted to choose which of her trees to propagate,» Chin posits, «she could determine their relative tolerance of acute water - stress without needing anything fancier than pruning shears and a tub of melted wax.»

We also foresee that our particles will be effective in environmental remediation and agricultural applications.

The CRISPR / Cas9 system represents a highly effective and facile platform for targeted editing of large animal genomes, which can be broadly applied to both biomedical and agricultural applications.

Built as an alternative farmhand to the humble tractor, the Series 1 outlived its agricultural application to become a global icon.

All of our monitors provide clear color digital displays and are designed to work in any car, truck, tractor, or agricultural applications.

This product is actually marketed for agricultural applications, offering strong outdoor protection for large outdoor areas including stables, kennels and yards.

These products — intended for agricultural applications — are produced in much higher concentrations making accurate dosing tricky and increasing the chance of overdosing your dog.

From the digital data of these photographs Thompson extracted all the color values and matched them to the nearest corresponding values in the Munsell color chart, an early - 20th century system for organizing color, still widely used for various industrial and agricultural applications.

Mearns, L.O., C. Rosenzweig, and R. Goldberg, 1997: Mean and variance change in climate scenarios: Methods, agricultural applications, and measures of uncertainty.

Sampling points were selected in areas mainly influenced by residential run - off — away from golf courses, sewage treatment plant effluents, and agricultural applications.

In addition, we also have a growing practice representing entities involved in the commercialization of environmental and agricultural applications of the life sciences, including those involved in bio-fuels and bio-products.