Sentences with phrase «better crop plants»

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Well before modern genetic engineering technology was around, humans found ways to tweak the DNA of plants by zapping it with chemicals or radiation — resulting in crops that are not considered GMOs.

Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta already grow large volumes of relevant crops (like lentils, peas and beans), house plant - science and ingredient research and development, have good transportation and logistics infrastructure and enjoy the benefits of preferential access to the U.S. market.

According to the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE), the total area planted to winter crops is forecast to be a record 19.2 million hectares in 2000/01, following good planting rains across most grain - growing areas in the eastern states.

Actually food for several years, since having salt water flood the earth would have caused the death of almost every plant that most of those animals could have eaten as well as damage the earth so the crops wouldn't have been able to come back for years.

Compact plant, gives quite good crops too!

Control: Control includes well - drained soil, proper plant spacing, crop rotation, and careful removal of all infected plants as soon as possible.

To guard against the economic catastrophe of a failed coffee crop, many growers now mix in other cash crops such as yucca and tomatoes, alongside their coffee plants or experiment with growing hybrid coffee plants that are better adapted to climate extremes or are better able to resist pests.

The soil health slowly improved and the following summer I increased my crop to include more tomato plants, zucchini, kale, lettuce and spring onion, as well as another failed attempt at eggplant.

There are many good crop protectors — cotton bed sheets, clear or black plastic, nylon netting, plastic row covers, even large cardboard boxes placed over individual plants.

Apart from the better food resources in organic fields, the key factors are more fauna - compatible plant protection management, organic fertilization, the more diversified crop rotation and the more structured landscapes with semi-natural habitats and field margins.

Utilizing more of this delicious crop that nature has provided, is not only better for the planet, but ensures that we are working toward a future where we can provide organic, plant - based nourishment and not waste a single bit of these tasty coconuts.

Agroforestry practices provide cocoa farmers with resilience to climate change by promoting the planting of income generating hardwoods and other crops among cacao tress well as conservation of forests for both shade and soil health.

Here's my latest garden update (http://takewithfoodblog.wordpress.com/2012/06/12/garden-update-june/)... that was only two weeks ago, but the plants are already sooo much bigger than they were and I estimate that I'm around 75 cherry tomatoes and well over a dozen on the other plants A pretty healthy crop for container plants, I think!

This curriculum will work well for any pulse crop that is to be planted in your school garden.

I was lucky because I planted early and managed to harvest all the fruit by mid-March, but you can harvest until May and those who planted a little later, like my best friend, have lost nearly all their crop.

By exploiting new molecular and genetic insights, the research, done in collaboration with Pierre de Wit from Wageningen Agricultural University in the Netherlands, provides a better understanding of the defense system of crop plants against the damaging pathogens that grow in the spaces between plant cells.

«I'm a plant scientist in Dr. Patel's lab at Big State University, with significant research experience in improving efficiency of various cropping systems under a range of environmental conditions, as well as working with parent lines development and hybrid seed production.

«What these researchers are uncovering about the agronomics of cup plant, as well as the insects that affect them, will help us decide how they can be integrated into a bioenergy cropping system,» said Vance Owens, director of the North Central Regional Sun Grant Center.

The plant stores and processes energy crops as well as liquid manure.

But even better would be biofuels that use cheap, widespread plant matter such as leaves and grasses rather than food crops.

New research from an Iowa State University scientist identifies a genetic mechanism that governs growth and drought tolerance in plants, a development that could lead to better performing traits in crops.

«Now, with a billion acres of these crops planted over the past 16 years, and with the data accumulated over that period, we have a better scientific understanding of how fast the insects evolve resistance and why.»

«We hope that the consensus among plant scientists presented here is heard by policymakers, the business community, and, more importantly, the general public and initiates a new conversation on how best to implement GM tools to improve crops for sustainable agriculture.

Species distribution or crop - niche modeling is another sophisticated technology that archeologists use to predict where plants and other organisms grew well in the past and where they might be useful today.

«Gaining a clearer understanding of how the plant controls its own growth and development makes it possible for the breeder and, later, the grower to supply a healthier and better crop.»

The average crop requires about ten parts nitrogen to one part phosphorus for robust growth; living plants must maintain a delicate balance between the two nutrients to produce at their best.

The average crop requires about ten units of nitrogen to one unit of phosphorus for robust growth; living plants must maintain a delicate balance between the two nutrients to produce at their best.

Synthetic incompatibility has applications in controlling or eradicating invasive species, crop pests and disease - carrying insects as well as preventing altered genes from escaping from genetically modified crops into other plant populations.

They pollinate plants, including 80 percent of the world's 94 major food crops, as well as vast tracts of tropical rain forest.

Cucumber is a major vegetable crop consumed worldwide as well as a model system for sex determination and plant vascular biology.

The researchers are collaborating with an engineering company, Intrinsyx Technologies, to show this same beneficial relationship between microbes and agricultural plants, with crops given the beneficial microbes yielding more vegetables and responding better in dry, hot weather.

Biologists knew that wild pollinators matter to wild plants as well as to certain crops such as blueberries, but not to commercial agriculture as a whole.

A hardier corn plant could also bode well for well - established row crop areas, including portions of the U.S. Corn Belt, where changing climate conditions are producing environmental stressors such as prolonged drought.

The arrival of tree bumblebees could be hugely beneficial to us by absorbing parasite pressure from our native species, as well as helping to pollinate wild plants and crops.»

Higher frequency of extreme weather conditions makes it more difficult not only to predict harvests but also to breed crop plants that can better cope with future climate.

The latter process used much less water, for example, and it allowed farmers to diversify their crops and use their land to plant other crops as well.

«Our results show that increased PsbS expression allows crop plants to be more conservative with water use, which we think will help to better distribute available water resources over the duration of the growing season and keep the crop more productive during dry spells.»

Within years, genetic modification had increased crop yields by 50 per cent and created plants that were resistant to drought and pests, as well as being high in vitamins and minerals and able to produce their own nitrogen, so that they needed less fertiliser.

«Plants «hedge their bets» in germination: The route to better crop yields.»

«On the one hand, more CO2 is known to be good for plants, at least in the short - term because this drives up photosynthesis and plant growth including crop growth and food production.

«Because of Amborella's pivotal phylogenetic position, it is an evolutionary reference genome that allows us to better understand genome changes in those flowering plants that evolved later, including genome evolution of our many crop plants — hence, it will be essential for crop improvement,» stressed Doug Soltis of the University of Florida.

First author Onur Oztas, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher in the Sancar lab, said, «DNA damage accumulating in a plant will impair its growth and development, so boosting the excision repair system could be a good strategy for improving crop yields.»

«The holy grail of plant science has long been to bioengineer the photosynthetic pathways in C3 and C4 plants to grow larger, more productive crops that are better adapted to climate change and boost food security.

The science may be there, but the money isn't Traditionally, plant breeders scan fields in search of favorable traits in crops and collect seeds of the best varieties to save.

«Farmers don't have to plow up the field every year to plant new crops, and they're good for a decade or longer.»

A Dartmouth - led team has discovered a group of stress - related proteins that explains how plants avoid sunburn in intense light, a finding that one day could help biotechnologists to develop crops that can better cope with hotter, drier conditions occurring in climate change.

«Before transgenic plants containing PAT will get clearance, there must be studies to see what concentrations of the herbicide are present in harvested crops, as well as what chemicals are produced in the crop when PAT deactivates Basta.

The findings could pave the way to new techniques to engineer plants to produce better crops or to turn off certain genes.

«This is not about using half the water for no reason, but rather studying the water status of the plants and, knowing their needs, watering the crop in the right way and at the best time,» explains the Agroforestry Sciences teacher Mireia Corell.

The new species was discovered as part of a 5 - year, $ 4.36 million study funded by the National Science Foundation to inventory all 1500 or so species in the Solanum genus — a diverse group that includes poisonous plants commonly known as nightshades as well as agriculturally important crops such as tomatoes, potatoes, and eggplants.