Sentences with phrase «found planting crops»

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The AATF is using genetic engineering to create resistance to the bacteria, but even if a solution is found, not every African country allows GM crops to be planted.

We found the burned remains of nearly every crop plant that people were growing elsewhere in East Asia at the time.

Well before modern genetic engineering technology was around, humans found ways to tweak the DNA of plants by zapping it with chemicals or radiation — resulting in crops that are not considered GMOs.

Most significantly, they found that it is resistant to root - knot nematode, a pest that can destroy certain plants and crops.

As a rule of thumb, plant breeders in both public research institutes and private companies use genetic engineering only in the following situations: 1) the gene of interest is not found within the crop gene pool, 2) if found in the gene pool, transfer will be difficult due to incompatibility and other breeding problems or 3) the transfer of the gene will take a long time as in the case of perennial crops like coconut.

While our organization has branched out (pun intended) since its founding 30 years ago to protect temperate forests (such as those in the Appalachian mountains), and tropical forests in Africa and Asia, our first efforts were focused on the rainforests of Latin America, working with farmers and foresters there to improve their lives and livelihoods so they wouldn't have to clear trees to plant crops or sell timber.

A research project funded by the European Union found that the diversity of landscape and farming systems was greater in organic farms, regarding land use types, crops, livestock, plantings (hedges, solitary shrubs, trees) and flora.

Lane and his colleagues found that both farmers who have been involved in GM crop trials and those who have not, regard GM as a simple extension of previous plant breeding techniques, such as those which have produced today's established crop types.

Built by Precision Hawk of Indianapolis, the craft's thermal camera is meant to find outbreaks of insects and crop disease, which show up as hotspots when stressed plants lose their ability to regulate heat.

Getting energy directly from this year's plant crop, in the form of biofuels, is cleaner and more efficient than getting it from coal or oil, but Dukes found that if we tried to supply current worldwide energy demand entirely from biofuels, it would consume at least 22 percent of the production of all land - based plants annually.

«These findings illustrate how resurrection plants manipulate sugar metabolism to promote desiccation tolerance and may provide candidate genes that are potentially useful for the development of stress tolerant crops.»

The find might eventually help scientists create more drought - resistant crop plants, the researchers report in the March 17 Science.

These findings taken together could provide plant breeders with new tools to create novel traits and crops.

One of the keys to making dwarf corn crops is finding a way to «feminize» the plant by removing steroids that produce large amounts of pollen.

In another finding that is consistent with the practice of crop rotation, Fitzpatrick evaluated plant soil feedback and demonstrated that the more similar the composition of a plant's root microbiome to that of the previous generation of plant grown in that soil, the more the second - generation plant suffered.

For the first time, scientists have improved how a crop uses water by 25 percent without compromising yield by altering the expression of one gene that is found in all plants, as reported in Nature Communications.

In news that will surely fan the flames of the heated debate over genetically modified crops, scientists have found evidence that genes from GM plants can spread far and wide to native ones.

A Dartmouth - led team has discovered a group of stress - related proteins that explains how plants avoid sunburn in intense light, a finding that one day could help biotechnologists to develop crops that can better cope with hotter, drier conditions occurring in climate change.

To find out if how the nitrogen is delivered makes a difference, Arnold Bloom, a crop physiologist at the University of California, Davis, and his team monitored the growth of wheat plants raised in high levels of carbon dioxide.

«How plants avoid sunburn: Findings could lead to crops with increased protection from bright light and enhanced photosynthesis.»

A team of researchers led by Ralph Bock at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology, in Potsdam, Germany, now reports that it has found a way to protect crops from the Colorado potato beetle with a new insecticidal tool: RNA interference, or RNAi (Science 2015, DOI: 10.1126 / science.1261680).

The findings could pave the way to new techniques to engineer plants to produce better crops or to turn off certain genes.

We believe that our findings can stimulate others studies at this area, which seems to be a promise plant friendly way to apply for promoting a sustainable agriculture, especially to crop systems including bioenergy grass.»

«Interestingly, Arabidopsis isn't the only plant to have this gene, it is also found in nearly all other organisms, which suggests that our findings can be explored in crops.»

Now a research team led by Sean Cutler, a plant cell biologist at the University of California, Riverside, has found a new drought - protecting chemical that shows high potential for becoming a powerful tool for crop protection in the new world of extreme weather.

In order to characterize the biological properties of soil treated with biochar, the team incorporated torrefied plant residual biomass from the biodiesel crop Jatropha curcas into aridisol, a type of soil found in arid regions such as Botswana, and compared several soil properties with samples that had not been treated.

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.

The findings are important since most flowering plants and food crops need pollinators to produce seeds.

Further tests showed that the activity and function of SOBER1 is not restricted to the weed Arabidopsis thaliana, but also exists in a plant called oilseed rape demonstrating that the findings of Chory's lab could be applied to agricultural crops and biofuel resources.

A recently published study from two Iowa State University scientists shows that a gene found only in a single plant species can increase protein content when introduced into staple crops.

«Our lab and others have put a gene from cyanobacteria into crop plants and found that it boosts the photosynthetic rate by 30 percent,» he said.

To find out, researchers first imagined a world in which cattle lived only off plant waste and grass — not crops planted specially for them.

«It will be exciting to look in other organisms, such as crop plants and pathogenic fungi, to find out what mRNAs this protein regulates,» said first author Amy Lee, a former UC Berkeley American Cancer Society postdoctoral fellow who is now an assistant professor at Brandeis University.

Reisig also found that better enforcement and peer pressure from other farmers weren't seen as making farmers more likely to plant refuge crops.

Reisig found that approximately 40 percent of corn growers who used Bt corn would not plant refuge crops in the next growing season, while another 25 percent weren't sure.

A new study from North Carolina State University finds a significant shortfall in the amount of «refuge» cropland being planted in North Carolina — likely increasing the rate at which crop pests will evolve the ability to safely devour genetically engineered Bt crops.

By connecting plant science organizations, we are bringing together all those involved in plant and crop research, education and training, to harness the wealth of knowledge and expertise found within our membership base to strengthen and facilitate the development of plant science for global challenges.

Plant biologists have bumped up crop productivity by increasing the expression of genes that result in more efficient use of light in photosynthesis, a finding that could be used to help address the world's future food needs.

Late last month, the U.S. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service said grain tests and interviews with several hundred farmers found no other instances of glyphosate resistant crops.

One key finding is that we can achieve truly significant reductions in carbon dioxide emissions by switching from gasoline to biofuels — but just how much of those reductions we realize depends on what crops we plant and where we plant them.

He found a possible way to genetically modify a variety of plants, including important crops, on a temporary basis.

Centre for Jatropha Promotion & Biodiesel (CJP) is the Global authority for scientific commercialization of Jatropha & other non-food biofuel crops and designs and implements the growing of non-food biofuel crops worldwide in a structured Agri - Supply chain, Value additions and research activities thereon & provides technology and services from «Soil to Oil» for the breeding, development, planting and harvesting of next - generation commercial biofuel crops CJP has been engaged in promoting sustainable farming for biodiesel production since last one decade and its research findings and on - hand field experiences in respect of various technical, agronomical / silvicultural aspects of plantations of Jatropha have resulted in significant improvements in knowledge and technical background related to Productivity, profitability and sustainability of commercial production of Jatropha oil crop.

Rather than planting all of the same crop in a large area (picture the typical cornfield), commercial (and backyard) growers see improvement when they imitate the diversity found in the natural world, alternating rows with a complementary crop.

my understanding of regular potatoes any color skin flesh etc. is this... potatoes are on the dirty dozen list... sweet potatoes are on the clean 15... i eat over 50 % of my diet in the form of a few different colors of sweet potatoes... i buy them bulk... peel»em very deeply... at least 1/2 inch all around... i sometimes get them as large as 6 pounds (football sized)... i used to wear out the regular potatoes but after speaking with the safety expert from a huge potato company to find out if the potatoes are grown on soil which had grain crops treated with round - up herbicide filled with atrazine and glyphosate (which most grain crops are... inluding many wheat crops... they get sprayed like 3 days before harvest... then the round - up is in the soil)... problem is... the round - up stays for 7 years... after stayin» off the soil for a couple years... it can have any kind of crop planted on it and get an organic rating... but... whatever was planted on that soil is then full of round - up... so... this crop rotation onto fields which had grain crops sprayed with round - up herbicide etc. is EXTREMELY COMMON IN THE GROWING PRACTICE FOR REGULAR POTATOES... very common practice... so even if you peel»em deeply... they are still soaked with round - up... the glyphosates get in the gut... the aluminum which is all over everything grown above ground and not covered (hot house etc)... gets eaten9ya can't wash it off... unless ya peel everything... but greens etc. ya can not get it out... it gets in the fiber)... then ya eat it... it goes in the gut... mixes with the glyphosate... becomes 10,000 timesmore toxic... inhibits the bodies ability to properly process sulfur into sulfide and sulfate... basically many very smart researchers are sayin'this is the cause of all this asperger's... autism... alzheimer's like symptoms in the elderly... you can only take so much nano... pico... and heavy metal poisoning... the brain starts to act very strangely... so... long story short... i eat lots of sweet pots grown on clean soil... they are non-gmo and basically grown organically... but... the grower doesn't pay for the certification... i make sure to get my omega 3 from fresh ground flax seed in the morning away from my sweet potato consumption... the omega 6 in the sweet pots inhibits the absorption of omega 3 and i only want so much fat daily... i'm on the heart attack proof diet by dr. caldwell b. esselstyn jr....

With its bumper crops, you usually only need a plant or two for a bumper crop — and you may still find yourself giving zucchini away to neighbors or baking lots of zucchini bread!

They record the favorable planting dates for their crops and find other regions that share the same growing schedule.

In this activity, students use a planting guide from The Old Farmer's Almanac to find crops to grow on an imaginary farm.

Wherever an author finds fertile ground, they can continue to plant their crops.

Some experts consider this place was an experimental laboratory, where the Incas planted crops at different levels finding a relationship between the deep of the terrace and the weather conditions at different altitudes in the area.

But they also have resilience, knowledge and grit to figure out how to plant different crops or even find new livelihoods to survive in the face of adversity.