Sentences with phrase «crop plant environments»

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A later link, also supplied by Syngenta, is advanced crop protection products to help plants produce more food with minimum damage to the environment.

In addition, all Golden Rice field trials in the Philippines are conducted under permits issued by the Bureau of Plant Industry of the Department of Agriculture (DA - BPI), the national regulatory authority in the Philippines for crop biotechnology R&D, after they established that the trials will pose no significant risks to human health and the environment.

The field trials were permitted by the Department of Agriculture Bureau of Plant Industry (DA - BPI), the national regulatory authority in the Philippines for crop biotechnology research and development, after establishing that the trials will pose no significant risks to human health and environment.

Additional keywords: crop improvement, crop modelling, G × E, genotype by environment interaction, plant breeding, trait simulation.

The European Academies Science Advisory Council concurred, stating there «is no validated evidence that GM crops have greater adverse impact on health and the environment than any other technology used in plant breeding».

The National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity has defined DURC as «life sciences research that, based on current understanding, can be reasonably anticipated to provide knowledge, information, products, or technologies that could be directly misapplied to pose a significant threat with broad potential consequences to public health and safety, agricultural crops and other plants, animals, the environment, materiel, or national security».

Climate change and recent heat waves have put agricultural crops at risk, which means that understanding how plants respond to elevated temperatures is crucial for protecting our environment and food supply.

At present, there is a debate going on as to whether genetically modified (GM) crops are safe enough and what the long - term implications to the environment might be if they become widely planted.

«A wheat line's adaptation to its local environment is probably one of the most important properties of the plant for wheat breeders because it directly influences crop production,» Akhunov said.

This approach was called processual archeology in some circles because it focused on the processes by which people adapted to their environment — what crops they planted, say, and how many calories they extracted from them.

Currently Europe's crop production is highly specialized in only a small number of plant species, to the detriment of the environment.

Rewilding would allow crop plants not only to better utilize available resources in the environment and have higher nutritional value, but also to better resist diseases, pests, and weeds,» says Palmgren.

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Microbes in soil determine in large part how the planet stores carbon, when and how carbon is released into the environment, how plants take up nutrients and how crops fare.

The school would combine the departments of Crop and Soil Environmental Sciences; Horticulture; and Plant Pathology, Physiology, and Weed Science under one roof that will allow the college to make new investments to increase capacity and tackle the many challenges in agriculture and food security, the green industry, plant biology, and the environPlant Pathology, Physiology, and Weed Science under one roof that will allow the college to make new investments to increase capacity and tackle the many challenges in agriculture and food security, the green industry, plant biology, and the environplant biology, and the environment.

The interdependence among organisms and their environments sustains the conditions needed for survival by all living creatures: clean air and water, crop pollination, pest control, climate regulation, soil nutrients, and a diversity of plants and creatures, among other things.

Using genomic technologies — those that examine the entirety of available genetic diversity in individual plants or animals and populations of those individuals — scientists can identify beneficial genetic traits and bring together new combinations of genes that enable crops and animals to perform well in specific environments.

The 1,062 - page report contains thousands of citations to peer - reviewed scientific literature — and concludes rising temperatures and atmospheric CO2 levels are causing «no net harm to the global environment or to human health and often finds the opposite: net benefits to plants, including important food crops, and to animals and human health.»

The «Biological Impacts» report finds that rising temperatures and atmospheric CO2 levels are causing «no net harm to the global environment or to human health and often finds the opposite: net benefits to plants, including important food crops, and to animals and human health.»

By the time these new crops are planted, they face a warmer environment than they were developed in.

This kind of crop production also has advantages over farming in open spaces, because it's not weather - dependant, and you can create artificial conditions which enhance the plant growth (conditions that can't be achieved in the natural environment).

More on GM Crops: Ireland Says Not in this Country: Bans Genetically Modified Crops India Suspends First GM Food Crop Introduction - Environment Minister Wants More Tests GM Cotton Fails - Insect Pests Thriving on Indian Plants When They Should Be Dead Why GMO Foods Have Failed at Producing Healthy Food for More People

Yet despite all the promise that these revolutionary crops hold for the future, the Sierra Club demands «a moratorium on the planting of all genetically engineered crops and the release of all GEOs [genetically engineered organisms] into the environment, including those now approved.»

If your property is a farm, consider whether the crops or plants you want to grow will do well in that environment.