Sentences with phrase «bred hybrid seeds»
Using conventionally bred hybrid seeds, farmers in certain fertile areas of Ethiopia have witnessed their fields turn into a breadbasket that is rivaled in the sub-Saharan region of the continent only by South Africa.
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Aran you can buy seeds of Shirley poppies Papaver rhoeas pretty easily (aka Flander poppies, a hybrid of the wild field poppies bred initially by Reverend Shirley in the 19th C).
My own focus has been on parental line development, including field breeding methods and hybrid seed production.
The seed company Pioneer Hi - Bred in Johnston, Iowa, last year commercialized a conventionally bred drought - tolerant hybrid variety, and Missouri - based Monsanto expects to commercialize a genetically engineered variety sBred in Johnston, Iowa, last year commercialized a conventionally bred drought - tolerant hybrid variety, and Missouri - based Monsanto expects to commercialize a genetically engineered variety sbred drought - tolerant hybrid variety, and Missouri - based Monsanto expects to commercialize a genetically engineered variety soon.
Funding for the research was provided mainly by the United Soybean Board and partially by the Partnership for Research and Education in Plant Breeding and Genetics program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Ag Alumni Seed, AgReliant Genetics, Beck's Hybrids, ConAgraFoods, Dow AgroSciences, Indiana Crop Improvement Association and Pioneer Hi - Bred International.
IRRI is now free to seek plant breeders» rights, patents and all manner of IPRs on its breeding lines and varieties, whether conventional seeds, hybrids or GMOs.
Just five companies (Monsanto, Dow, Bayer, DuPont, and Syngenta) own more than 60 % of the global commercial seed supply, and with many of the modern seed varieties being hybrids that won't breed true for home gardeners and small - scale farmers, or that have regulations outlawing the collection and replanting of seeds, today's growers are being locked into a cycle of reduced genetic diversity, which may lead to a potentially dangerous food security situation in the near future.