Sentences with phrase «higher grain yield»

Again, several of the transgenic strains showed higher grain yield under mild and severe natural drought.

Not exact matches

Weather conditions during the spring and early summer promoted long grain fill for wheat and are returning high yields for... read more

Our key target is to produce hybrid rice with consistently high - yield heterosis (hybrid vigor), good grain quality, tolerance to key environmental stresses, multiple resistances to insect pests and diseases, and high seed production yield.

Help scientists of participating countries access to a diverse source of germplasm and broaden the genetic base of temperate rice for higher yield, superior grain quality and resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses

Although high - yielding varieties are grown in these areas, continual progress is necessary to incorporate disease and insect resistance and improved grain quality into rice varieties.

In this light, IRRI develops elite inbred rice lines with higher yield potential, multiple resistance to insects and diseases, and superior grain quality.

We conduct research and training to improve rice for better grain quality and higher yield, resistance to pests and diseases, tolerance of environmental stresses, and less farm input requirement.

IRRI and Indonesia's partnership covers breeding rice varieties with high yield potential, grain quality, and resistance to pests.

«It is our vision for Burundi to become a leading regional hub for excellent, high yielding, rice varieties that also have good grain quality.»

Although the first generation of hybrid rice varieties released had higher yields, they also tended to have inferior grain quality and inadequate disease and insect resistance.

Our research into hybrid rice now focuses on producing hybrid rice with consistently high - yield heterosis (hybrid vigor), good grain quality, tolerance to key environmental stresses, multiple resistances to insect pests and diseases, and high seed production yield.

«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.

The new African Green Revolution would initially subsidize peasant farmers» access to high - yield technologies and thereby at least double grain yields.

But no one told the farmers, who continued to plant modern high - yield grains that need good rains rather than traditional varieties which can tolerate droughts.

Using conventional breeding techniques, Borlaug's crucial breakthrough was crossing stubby - stalked dwarf wheat with high - yielding varieties, resulting in a plant that was both extremely productive — when given ample fertilizer — and strong enough to hold up under the weight of large clusters of grain.

Those varieties won out because of their good yield, disease resistance, and high - quality grain.

Agricultural innovation has long sustained the world's masses with an abundance of low - cost food, thanks to the success of the mid-20th century's Green Revolution, which brought industrialization and high - yield grains to India, Mexico and many other developing countries.

Since then, it has released two major coffee cultivars — Colombia (in 1980) and Castillo (2005)-- that have been effective since 1983 in tempering leaf rust while preserving the characteristics so important to world - class coffee: high yield, large grain size, great taste.

Although high - yielding varieties are grown in these areas, continual progress is necessary to incorporate disease and insect resistance and improved grain quality into rice varieties.

«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.

Although food supplements can alleviate this situation, the development of high - yielding varieties of cereal grains that have high levels of protein and better amino acid balance would be the ideal solution, since this would not involve added expense or special educational efforts, and there are good possibilities of producing them.

There is also evidence that the grains themselves were much different during biblical times, as they have now been hybridized and altered to produce higher yields.

If we just look at the changes in grains from the invention of the modern steel mill and the high - yield dwarf varieties cultivated in the 1960s, it still doesn't completely match up with or explain the drastic rise of grain - related allergies and intolerances in the last two decades... but there is a missing link that might!

High yield grains have been created through hybridization.

In order to get the highest yields in the shortest time for the cheapest costs the vegetables, fruits and grains that the conventional agribusiness giants produce are pumped full of chemicals, which you can not wash off.

In such individuals, overconsumption of processed (high — glycemic index) foodstuffs and (even whole - grain) cereals overloads the metabolic machinery with carbohydrates, yielding hyperglycemia and other metabolic anomalies.

Psyllium is a natural grain that yields an outstanding 60 - 70 % fiber, eight times higher than oat bran.

- Amaranth, buckwheat, chia, millet, quinoa, sorghum, kamut, einkorn, spelt and teff (which are sometimes called «ancient grains» because each was an important food source for ancient civilizations, and although not 100 % gluten - free, are much lower or non-existent in gliadin content compared to modified, high - yield wheat crops).

Dr. Liu's findings may help explain why studies have shown that populations eating diets high in fiber - rich whole grains consistently have lower risk for colon cancer, yet short - term clinical trials that have focused on fiber alone in lowering colon cancer risk, often to the point of giving subjects isolated fiber supplements, yield inconsistent results.

«Sharp rise in temperature will cause forced maturity of grains as a result neither grains will attain their proper size or weight nor will they accumulate optimum levels of starch thereby reducing the grain yield; pollination in banana, another important crop of the Indus delta, will be affected due to early winter and high spring temperatures.

(3) Grain yield was significantly higher (19.6 %) in the CO2 - enriched treatment.

Elsewhere, Western Europe, with its mild winters and high - yielding winter wheat, might also be able to double crop more with a summer grain, such as corn, or with a winter oilseed crop.

One key to the threefold expansion in the world grain harvest since 1950 was the rapid adoption in some developing countries of high - yielding wheats and rices (originally developed in Japan) and hybrid corn (from the United States).

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.