Sentences with phrase «common food crop»

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Buckwheat was a common and popular crop in Europe and the United States for many years - but more as animal feed than as human food.

And since corn is one of the biggest crops and most common food additives — think corn syrup, cornstarch, cornflakes and other breakfast cereals, corn chips — the typical American eats some form of corn multiple times a day.

A common herbicide is ending up in our food, thanks to the growing practice of using it to dry crops in preparation for harvest.

The FRO2 gene is common to all plants, so boosting its expression in food crops or finding variants that thrive in poor soils could be important for increasing crop yields in the face of population growth and global warming's threats to arable land.

While the practice of splicing foreign DNA into food crops has become common in corn and soy, few companies or researchers have dared to apply genetic engineering to plants that provide an essential strut of the U.S. economy, trees.

Lower yields of crops or damage to crops, water stress, food insecurity, malnutrition, poor health and increased risk of population migration are forecast to become more common globally.

Mobile parasitic DNAs (e.g.transposons, and MULE parasites found in rice and millet) are a commonest example of transgenic genes found in food crops.

They're also common in many conventionally grown crops, seeping in from pesticides and contaminants in the water and soil used to grow these foods.

And since corn is one of the biggest crops and most common food additives — think corn syrup, cornstarch, cornflakes and other breakfast cereals, corn chips — the typical American eats some form of corn multiple times a day.

Among the top 10 most common GMO crops are: Corn, Soy, Cotton, Sugar Beets, Canola, Papaya, Zucchini and Summer Squash so it is best to choose organic when buying these foods.

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Common clinical signs include lethargy, fluffed feathers, little to no appetite, vomiting or regurgitation, delayed crop emptying, a distended crop full of mucus, and occasionally a crop impacted with dry food, mucus, or other debris.

Based on many studies covering a wide range of regions and crops, negative impacts of climate change on crop yields have been more common than positive impacts (high confidence)... Since AR4, several periods of rapid food and cereal price increases following climate extremes in key producing regions indicate a sensitivity of current markets to climate extremes among other factors (medium confidence).

Sustainable production of fish, tree crops and other food brought together in common property resources