Sentences with phrase «conventional plants»

Using conventional plant breeding, tomato wild species can be readily crossed with the cultivated tomato.

But although the gene traveled far and wide, it got into only a small proportion of conventional plants.

Some say that, when wind availability is low, there will be a need for extensive back up from conventional plant to maintain grid reliability.

Given the size and cost of new conventional plants today, those plants are unlikely to be replaced with new ones.

Those approaches should include modern conventional plant - breeding methods, sustainable and organic farming, and other sophisticated farming practices that do not require farmers to pay significant up - front costs.

In conventional plants high - level wastes are produced in the fission process from enriched uranium.

Orders for GE's newest, large gas - fired turbines have fallen 35 percent in the two years since the deal closed, and industry estimates show demand for conventional plants is unlikely to hit 2017 levels again for at least a decade.

Kebari barley was perfected over 13 years by scientists at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Australia by using conventional plant breeding methods.

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

Documentation of unexpected genetic changes that occur with conventional plant breeding.

The EPA will demand that conventional plants run at 70 % of capacity, even as the switch to «renewables» requires that they run at 25 %.

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.

Greenpeace, with its $ 335 million annual revenue, has nearly four times more funding than the entire International Rice Research Institute (most of whose work involves conventional plant breeding).

To be included, a study had to compare organic and conventional planting across similarly - sized areas, had to report on the sample size and error margins, and had to use organic methods that complied with the guidelines of certification organisations (such as the UK's Soil Association).

Conventional plants burn pulverized coal in the air, which contains about 78 percent nitrogen.

The results, published in the academic journal Nature Biotechnology, could pave the way for new varieties of better tasting tomatoes with improved postharvest life through conventional plant breeding.

Dr Charles Baxter from Syngenta said: «This discovery has relevance for the development of new tomato varieties via conventional plant breeding and is a significant step forward in understanding processes involved in fruit development, allowing more refined control of this process in plant breeding.»

From Barro's perspective, it is unlikely that gene editing technologies will completely replace conventional plant breeding methods.

Building that four megawatts at a time — the capacity of the largest wind turbines currently made — would mean building 125,000 of these giant windmills across the country, along with hundreds of gigawatts of additional conventional plants to serve as a backup reserve for the wind farms.

Neither have you presented any serious argument that GM plant breeding presents any increased risk over conventional plant breeding which the is conclusion drawn by all credible scientific bodies that have looked at the issue.

On the energy alternatives, the report notes that the Federal Association of Energy and Water Industry's claim that, in any case, on current plans, up 30GW of new plant will be built by 2019, including wind, biomass and water projects solar, but also conventional plants.

Meanwhile conventional plants will battle it out to see which survive as the indispensable backstop of the electricity system, with the advantages of cost and policy preferment currently accruing to gas plants.

«In Arizona, like in California, if they require CSP not to use water, they should make sure conventional plants have the same type of restrictions,» Mehos said.

Currently, according to Ronald, in India and Bangladesh alone, 4 million tons of rice are lost to flooding every year because conventional plants die under water submersion within three days.

Kebari ™ barley was developed by CSIRO scientists using conventional plant breeding methods and contains 10,000 times less gluten than regular barley.

GM plants are subject to the same seeds regulations as conventional plants, and require approval for the distinctness, uniformity and stability (DUS) of each new variety, as well as value for cultivation and use (VCU).

In a study published in March, it compared three scenarios: completing Ukraine's partly built VVER nuclear plants; phasing out nuclear power and supplying Ukraine's expected power needs with conventional plants; and the same plan, but with investments in energy efficiency.

So the EPA will demand that conventional plants run at 70 % or more of their capacity — even as the switch to «renewable energy» requires that they run at 25 % or 50 % of capacity to provide backup for all the new windmills and solar panels.

«The majority of nonscientists don't understand the process of conventional plant breeding,» Dale explains, «so it is very hard for them to understand GM.»

The research team used conventional plant breeding techniques to develop the plants into a «High Oleic Hemp» line and higher oleic acid content was demonstrated in a Yorkshire field trial.

Scientists had spent their entire careers trying and failing to use conventional plant - breeding techniques to make papaya resistant to the virus, but Gonsalves, along with researchers at the University of Hawaii, was working on a completely different approach.

Though accidental production of toxins or allergens is a valid concern of GM protesters, conventional plant breeding has achieved this too.

Professor Charles Benbrook, one of the authors of the study and a leading scientist based at Washington State University, explains, «Our results are highly relevant and significant and will help both scientists and consumers sort through the often conflicting information currently available on the nutrient density of organic and conventional plant - based foods.»

Using conventional plant breeding methods, our researchers have developed Kebari ® barley, a world - first barley grain that has 10,000 times less hordeins (the type of gluten found in barley) than regular barley.

Paterson did not however, stating confidently that he would eat GM food and that «GMOs are safer than conventional plants and food».

Conventional plants have a number of systems to prevent the core from being uncovered, but modular reactors sidestep the problem entirely by housing all the system components, including the steam generators, inside a single vessel.

ABB says this is the cheapest type of conventional plant, and that building it will provide jobs for most of the 6000 nuclear plant employees facing redundancy.

A conventional plant requires a vast, complex array of pumps, pipes, and valves to move enormous quantities of water between the reactor vessel, a separate steam - generating chamber, and a cooling tank.

For one thing, a bundle of micro nukes would collectively produce just as much nuclear waste as a conventional plant generating the same amount of power.

No matter that Glover has faithfully and accurately represented the strong scientific consensus on the safety of GMOs — that, in the words of a commission report, are «no more risky than conventional plant breeding technologies».

China is building more nuclear plants (zero - emissions) and ultrasupercritical coal plants, which are much more efficient than conventional plants and thus less polluting, than the rest of the world combined.

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