Sentences with phrase «conventional crop breedings»

Gurian - Sherman says, in addition to be cheaper than genetic modification, conventional crop breedings has increased drought tolerance 2 - 3 times more quickly than GM.

The UCS study found that while crop yields of DroughtGard did decrease crop losses by 6 % and would increase overall US corn production by 1 %, conventional crop breeding has been increasing drought tolerance by about 1 % per year for the past 10 years, while this conventional breeding combined with improved farming practices has been able to increase corn production by 1.5 - 2 % annually.

Not exact matches

It was developed with conventional breeding but is one of the major crops, including corn and soy, that have been made GMO to resist roundup and other herbicides.

If I used conventional breeding to produce a crop that was herbicide tolerant or GE to produce one, they would still be the same.

At Clif Bar, the company is tackling the yield gap by investing in plant breeding, contributing to an agriculture fund that helps provide technical assistance to educate growers and investing in infrastructure that will help reduce the distance that organic producers must transport their crops from the farm gate to the aggregator or processor, which is a significantly longer distance than for most conventional producers, Dillion said.

A 2014 report to the UK Council for Science and Technology, for instance, concluded that «it is not appropriate to have a regulatory framework that is based on the premise that GM crops are more hazardous than crop varieties produced by conventional plant breeding», citing two decades of extensive studies that have not revealed significant risks to human, animal or environmental health.

Many scientists are trying to unravel the complex crop genetics that allows these crops to tolerate environmental extremes, and they hope to use conventional breeding methods to create varieties that perform even better.

In fact, the FDA has ruled that because DNA is in every living organism, crops engineered with added genes are «substantially the same» as other foods and are no different from crops genetically modified through conventional breeding techniques.

At Monsanto, the practice has become so common that, in a recent paper, the firm said «molecular marker assisted breeding is becoming our conventional breeding process,» noting that many of its commercial crops are derived with the process.

Even crops whose genes are modified and shuffled by conventional breeding can turn out to have harmful effects, such as heightened levels of naturally occurring toxic compounds.

Understanding drought - responsive signaling and the molecular and biochemical mechanisms of drought tolerance in model plants such as Arabidopsis and rice provide new insight into how to develop drought - tolerant crop plants through conventional breeding or biotechnological approaches.»

Gould noted that as conventional plant breeding has become a more high - technology practice, the line separating GE and non-GE crops has blurred.

Conventional plant breeding and modern technology can increase the density of micronutrients in staple crops grown and consumed by smallholder farmers around the world.

The booklet discusses in detail and in simple language agricultural biotechnology as it compares with conventional breeding, the agricultural biotechnology tools used in crops such as tissue culture and micropropagation, molecular breeding and marker - assisted selection, and genetic engineering and GM crops.

«We are in urgent need of new ways to control insect pests on crops, with very limited options available from pesticide sprays and conventional breeding.

We use a process called biofortification, which adopts conventional breeding to improve crops.

Concluding, that the benefits from GM crops are much lower than can be obtained «with either conventional breeding or agro-ecology-based techniques» from just a tiny fraction of the investment in research.

Giving his suggestions, he stressed the need for developing varieties (idealistic plants) from climate change perspective and introduction of new crops using conventional as well as mutation breeding through biotechnology and genetic engineering.

What GMOs do do though is make a lot of money for their developers in terms of seed sales (GM seed can't be collected and saved like conventional seed has been for millennia) and in selling pesticides (to which most GM crops have been bred to resist).