Sentences with phrase «grain yield increased»

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In particular, «agricultural commodities are supported by the dynamics of water shortages in Asia and the Western United States, the declining payback from the green revolution in terms of improving crop yields and the increasing demand from Asia for a diet based more on grains and meat as the population becomes wealthier,» the group responded by e-mail.

The hope that, by farming the sea, increasing the yield of grains, or otherwise working a miracle of production in food science and technology we can in the nick of time prevent mass starvation without any of the affluent having to give up current privileges, is vain.

7Other seed fell among thorns and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no grain, 8And other seeds fell into good soil and brought forth grain, growing up and increasing and yielding thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.»

«As the global population is projected to increase by almost 3 billion by 2050, rice breeders urgently need to develop new and sustainable rice varieties with higher yield, healthier grains and reduced environmental footprints.

Yields of this staple grain have increased exponentially since the 1950s because better farming practices and new wheat breeds have more than made up for those hot Julys.

«Using it, we were able to improve resistance to drought - related stress, and increased the grain yield of rice in dry field conditions.

By using an intensified management system that included increased plant population, transgenic (Bt trait) insect resistance, strobilurin - containing fungicide, balanced crop nutrition (phosphorus - sulfur - zinc), and supplemental side - dressed nitrogen, the researchers saw a yield increase of 28 percent more corn grain compared to that of a standard management system.

Using a technique called association genetics, they found that the gene with the biggest effect on increasing susceptibility to Septoria is very closely linked to one that increases yield and grain size.

The researchers found out that in response to global temperature increases, grain yield declines are predicted for most regions in the world.

The new study suggests a decline of between 10 and 15 per cent in grain yields in Africa, tropical Latin America and much of India and Southeast Asia, as well as a substantial increase in famine.

One measure of yield, the dry weight of the rice grains, shot up from 16 grams per plant to 24 grams in the transgenic variety, a massive increase.

Plant growth - promoting rhizobacteria inoculation and nitrogen fertilization increase maize (Zea mays L.) grain yield and modified rhizosphere microbial communities — Luciana P. Di Salvo — Applied Soil Ecology

These facilities and those that follow will be driven by the same dynamic as grain ethanol, namely that industry profitability will be driven by ongoing reduction of processing costs such as enzymes and energy, as well as by increasing yields.

Erect leaves caused by brassinosteroid deficiency increase biomass production and grain yield in rice

«As the global population is projected to increase by almost 3 billion by 2050, rice breeders urgently need to develop new and sustainable rice varieties with higher yield, healthier grains and reduced environmental footprints.

«We can see this because the terms of trade for smallscale farmers in Indonesia have not improved since the Green Revolution, which focused so much on increasing yields of a few selected grains.

In China, where fertilizer manufacturing is government - subsidized, the average grain yield per acre grew 98 percent between 1977 and 2005, while nitrogen fertilizer use increased a dramatic 271 percent, according to government statistics.

Average yields of grain corn and soybeans were highly correlated (R2 = 0.86 and 0.74, respectively) with average available crop heat units (CHU), with yields increasing by about 0.006 t ha - 1 CHU - 1 for corn and 0.0013 t ha - 1 CHU - 1 forsoybeans.

Observational data, evidence from field experiments, and quantitative modeling are the evidence base of the negative effects of extreme weather events on crop yield: early spring heat waves followed by normal frost events have been shown to decimate Midwest fruit crops; heat waves during flowering, pollination, and grain filling have been shown to significantly reduce corn and wheat yields; more variable and intense spring rainfall has delayed spring planting in some years and can be expected to increase erosion and runoff; and floods have led to crop losses.4, 5,6,7

Dr Spencer has a post looking at the increase in corn yields (and other grains) over the last 60 years.

In addition to direct crop damage from increasingly intense precipitation events, wet springs can delay planting for grain and vegetables in New York, for example, and subsequently delay harvest dates and reduce yields.67 This is an issue for agriculture nationally, 65 but is particularly acute for the Northeast, where heavy rainfall events have increased more than in any other region of the country (Ch.

Chapter 9 Data: Feeding Eight Billion People Well (XLS PDF Highlights) Undernourishment in the World and in Selected Groups and Regions, 2009 Undernourishment in the World, 1969 - 2009 World Grain Production and Consumption, 1960 - 2009 World Average Grain Yields, 1950 - 2009 World Grain Yields, Annual Percent Increase by Decade, 1950 - 2009 Milk Production in India and the United States, 1961 - 2007 World Animal Protein Production, 1961 - 2007 World Soybean Production, 1964 - 2009 World Fertilizer Consumption, 1950 - 2008 Top of Page

Plant growth and yield parameters such as leaf area, stem dry weight, panicle dry weight, cob dry weight and grain number per cob were all significantly increased under elevated CO2.

And the end result of these several enhancements was a CO2 - induced increase in both rice and maize grain yield.»

The government quickly adopted several key production - boosting measures, including a 40 percent rise in the grain support price paid to farmers, an increase in agricultural credit, and heavy investment in developing higher - yielding strains of wheat, rice, and corn, their leading crops.