Sentences with phrase «baterial leaf blight»

The incidence of rice diseases (e.g., bacterial leaf blight, leaf blast, sheath rot, and sheath blight) and damage from insect pests (e.g., rice bug, yellow stem borer) were recorded for GR2E Golden Rice and unmodified control rice grown at five locations during the 2017 boro season in Bangladesh.

One only needs to look at the Irish potato famine, Dutch elm disease, southern corn leaf blight, or the current banana crisis for examples of the dangers of genetic homogenization.

And the scientists discovered that leaves treated with the fecal solution for 24 hours also had reduced growth of a fungus known to cause southern leaf blight disease in corn.

Such claims have linked the rise in occurrence of corn diseases like Goss's wilt, which causes leaf blight and systemic wilt, to the adoption of transgenic corn across the U.S.. However, a new study from the USDA - Agricultural Research Service (ARS) provides empirical evidence showing no increase in disease susceptibility in transgenic sweet corn treated with glyphosate.

Midwestern corn growers know the symptoms of northern corn leaf blight all too well: greenish - gray lesions on the leaves that can add up to major yield losses if not detected and treated early.

«Northern corn leaf blight genes identified in new study.»

Provides effective and lasting control of key leaf diseases including: rusts, tan spot, powdery mildew, glume blotch and Septoria leaf blight

Macassane, a new IRRI - bred rice variety released in Mozambique in 2011, also has improved resistance to baterial leaf blight, which causes yield losses across the country.

Hybrid rice is thus susceptible to several diseases and efforts are now underway to develop hybrid varieties genetically engineered for resistance to bacterial leaf blight and rice stem borers.

Canada dared because he was fed up with the «superhero» model, a menu of fragmented programs that help a few children in vast, blighted neighborhoods, leaving the blight intact.

Not exact matches

And as coal investors have fled in droves to invest in more profitable companies and industries, coal workers have been left with pink slips and mortgages on houses with few buyers in blighted coal country.

If the Landsat Satellite picks up a different color in its pictures of the coffee plantations of Columbia, the banks «s specialists may determine that this indicates a blight on the leaves which will result in serious crop failure.

They had been elegant in the tree, tiny coquettes blushing more and more until I picked them, then they were minimalist and matte - colored in wooden bowls, so barely furred one couldn't help but clothe them, enclose them with your hand, caress each one thoroughly before taking a bite, exploring the handsome freckles left from some minor blight.

What's more, the 25 - year - old's past six seasons have been blighted by injury [via Transfer Markt]-- suggesting that if Monreal does leave this summer, Gibbs may at least require back - up.

We turn left onto Meadowview Road, just south of downtown, where streets are dotted with urban blight.

His season has been blighted with injury, and competition for spots with Brazilian left - back Andre Santos.

The Captain Fantastic, Vincent Kompany, has an injury - blighted campaign and is likely to leave this summer as Pep has options to believe in.

Some shadow cabinet sources said they would have preferred an absolute Labour commitment to an in / out referendum, but that would have left Miliband open to the accusation — made against the Tories — that he was leaving a question mark over Britain's continued membership of the EU, and so blighting future inward business investment in the UK.

In a 1985 letter, Trump complained to then - NYC Mayor Ed Koch about the blight of hot - dog vendors leaving ketchup and mustard stains on his sidewalk.

«Chestnut trees are a vital part of healthy woodlands and long stood as a symbol of healthy communities as well, here in Erie County and across the eastern U.S.. Then, communities nationwide were stricken and watched helplessly as blight took these magnificent trees by the millions across decades, leaving lone sentinels dotting the landscape where thousands of their counterparts had flourished,» said Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz.

Many choose to blight our record, but we revived the financial health of the country and left Ghana in good stead for sustained economic growth.

I think Progress is a disgusting organisation and a blight on the Labour movement, but the only way we can decrease its influence and make sure working people have a voice is by supporting the left within the Labour party.

Registration opened a year ago, but months later uptake was still blighted by computer problems as couples were unable to complete a test to prove their identity online, and were left waiting for hours on HMRC phone lines to claim.

Now a helicopter flight over Limahuli reveals a landscape blighted by the plant's furry leaves.

When lingering near the top of the atmosphere, the O3 molecule provides cover from energetic radiation but closer to the ground it can choke lungs and blight leaves.

It was not clear to what extent El Salvador's coffee crop, already blighted by an outbreak of leaf rust, might be affected by the eruption.

Potatoes engineered to carry a resistance gene withstand late blight (left); normal potatoes shrivel when exposed to the pathogen (center).

Environment secretary Michael Howard announced then that it would be phased in over a number of years, though that worsened the risk of blight by leaving everybody uncertain about what might turn up on the registers.

According to leaf and small stem assays that predict the level of blight resistance, this OxO has raised resistance levels at least as high as those found in the blight - resistant Chinese chestnut (C. mollissima).

Be wary not to step on the ice left by his attacks, as this will apply the blight as well.

It can blight students» lives and leave young people feeling isolated.

This second generation BMW Z4 took over where the first - generation model left off, and promised similarly involving handling while resolving the stiff ride that blighted the earlier car.

For two years after Ethel had left him for the Nashville guitarist, Roger had immersed himself in a study of late blight of potato, and that look of resignation, wisdom, and patience had come into his face that was brought out so well in the Agrisearch photograph.»

Enter Priska C. Juschka anytime before October 20th, and you'll see an average - sized painting entitled «Blight» on your left.

Sanding has bulldozed some of the blights but still left a trace, foundations that have been built upon and smoothed over, a kind of beauty from the rubble.

Not only have almost every major solar manufacturing company in Germany gone bankrupt, leaving economic blight in its wake, now traditional power giants, which hire tens of thousands of skilled workers, are threatened by bankruptcy.

The psychological scars left by Canada's worst natural disaster on the town's residents are as deep as the physical ones left on the blighted landscape

Penalty for not passing any of these exams no leave till passed.Apart from Haslar R.N hospital the other main training hospital was R.N.H.Barrow Guerney Nr.Bristol.Ruled with a rod of iron by Warrant Officer Wardmaster Blight.

«Because of the laws passed after the Kelo decision, local governments can use laws to condemn «blighted» areas, so what's left for redevelopment is brownfields,» he says.

And I remember being cross that the Newcastle earthquake struck after I'd left The Newcastle Herald, because I missed out on all the free KFC buckets that management bought to sustain staff while they covered the disaster (oh, and that I didn't get to report on the most dramatic new story to ever blight the Hunter).