Sentences with phrase «corn plant»

In the areas that have seen the most serious reduction in wild bees, there have been 200 % increases in the amount of corn planted.

By identifying the genes that control the number of stem cells in corn plants, for example, we've discovered a means of boosting the yield of that vital staple.

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Next, the researchers look at the effect of water stress on gene expression using corn planted on high and low ground.

Those steroids are also responsible for the greater biomass production of conventional corn plants.

As a result, the tie points don't necessarily match up, which means the same corn plant can have two projections on the model.

Corn plants bred to be planted very close together thrive in good weather but appear to be particularly vulnerable to the droughts predicted in the coming decades.

And how about that nearly dead corn plant (bottom right corner)?

Conventional software does that by looking at common features in neighboring photos — for example, the same corn plant that appears in two images — and marking them with points called tie points.

So corn geneticist Virginia Walbot of Stanford University examined the effects of short wavelength UV irradiation on corn plants growing on an experimental plot near Stanford.

To test the effectiveness of their technique, the researchers grew several sets of corn plants infected with the Aspergillus fungus, and after a month, tested their toxin levels.

Now, researchers have genetically modified corn plants to fight back, by letting them send «Trojan horse» molecules into the fungus to neutralize its ability to produce the toxins.

«If we can design better corn plants, you could pack them in and they would be well defended all the time without pesticides — that's one potential direction this research could go,» Howe said.

OMAHA, Nebraska (Reuters)- The most extensive drought in five decades has left corn plants withered and dying, and crop yields in the largest producing states will be much lower than experts have forecast, scouts said on Friday as they completed a U.S. Midwest crop tour.

When caterpillars attack, corn plants release volatile scent compounds that attract parasitic wasps, whose larvae consume the caterpillar from the inside out.

While roughly 20 percent of the carbon in corn, for example, is recycled if turned into the motor fuel ethanol, as much as 95 percent of the carbon in the whole corn plant can be recycled if burned in electric power plants, McCarl says.

By measuring populations of corn plants planted across North America, they could test how the corn genomes responded to different growing conditions.

If the technology can be refined to allow for large - scale breeding and seed development, such dwarf corn plants could revolutionize the global food chain by allowing maize to be grown in more hostile climates.

By measuring populations of corn plants across North America, de Leon and colleagues could test how the corn genomes responded to different growing conditions.

WASHINGTON — Biofuels made from the leftovers of harvested corn plants are worse than gasoline for global warming in the short term, a study shows, challenging the Obama administration's conclusions that they are a much cleaner oil alternative and will help combat climate change.

Or, you might be working in the garden with your little one nearby, sensitive to noticing a moment that calls you to put down your rake so you can kneel on the damp earth and let your toddler lead the way to the discovery of a blossom or a butterfly or a strawberry or the green spikes of the emerging corn he planted himself.

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 researchers saw an entirely different response when velvetleaf was grown by itself versus among corn plants.

In the last few years, some refineries began converting the inedible parts of corn plants into ethanol, Chundawat said.

When cotton and corn plants suffered under the budworms, they discharged their own blend of those same chemicals — «kind of like a bar code in a grocery store,» says Lewis.

The researchers analyzed volatiles emitted by tobacco, cotton, and corn plants while they were eaten by tobacco budworms and by corn earworms, which the wasps don't parasitize.

To obtain this information, the research team mated different strains of the fungus: one that causes disease on Ht1 corn plants, and one that doesn't.

Corn plants outfitted with the gene tolerated six times the concentration of glyphosate that farmers normally apply, with no apparent effect on health or reproduction — more than enough for commercial potential, says Verdia's Linda Castle.

In field experiments, the targeted release of terpenes around corn plants reduces damage from hungry caterpillars.

Jander lab members investigate the chemical defenses that young corn plants use to fight off simultaneous attacks from hungry insects.

That helps explain why having a HapMap of maize will be useful for breeders in producing improved corn plants.

The term is often used to refer to organisms that have had genes transplanted from other species — corn plants engineered to carry bacterial genes that make a chemical toxic to pests, for instance.

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In addition, corn plants deplete soil nitrogen, which must be replaced by constant doses of fertilizer.

Kansas, the leading U.S. wheat - producing state, has used a combination of drought - resistant varieties in some areas and irrigation in others to expand corn planting to where the state now produces more corn than wheat.

As a professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences at University of Virginia, Macko knew the two trillion - plus corn plants grown each year in Iowa — 300 for every man, woman and child on the planet — had to be going somewhere.

I can't wait until the sweet corn we planted in our garden is ripe to give this recipe a try!

In recent years, claims have been made that glyphosate and transgenic traits result in corn plants that are more susceptible to crop diseases.

Now, researchers at the University of Arizona have genetically modified corn plants to fight back, by letting them send «Trojan horse» molecules into the fungus to neutralize its ability to produce the toxins.

For its latest work, Tumlinson's team knew that corn plants release a potent wasp attractant — a blend of terpenoids and indole — when under attack from the beet armyworm caterpillar.

Rangarajan mentioned new satellite - navigating robots, for example, that boost efficiency and cut soil loss by dispersing seed for a cover crop between rows of corn plants well before the corn is harvested.

A corn plant growing, left, and petri dishes, right, in Syngenta's research center in Beijing.

«To make a corn plant more drought tolerant, you can modify genes in the plant without having to put a different gene in,» Fyrwald explains.

I later learned that one of this bird lover's favorite pastimes was to sit on his back porch on fall evenings with a.22 rifle and shoot pheasants as they ventured into the half - acre patch of corn he planted to attract them.

Pollan amazes me again and again, not just with his often beautiful prose (the kind of writing where you stop and reread a passage just for the pleasure of it) but with his ingenious way of looking at things, such as exploring how a corn plant manipulates humans, rather than the other way around.

This image shows roots of a corn plant infected by endoparasitic nematodes (in red).