Sentences with phrase «hybrid seed»

In the western world most farmers buy their seed from seed companies that produce hybrid seeds the grow into plants with reliable characteristics.

My own focus has been on parental line development, including field breeding methods and hybrid seed production.

We have measured pollen flow to form hybrid seeds and the likelihood that seeds can grow and establish plants outside cultivation.

The reason: hybrid seeds lose their potency after a single generation.

The risk of contamination is therefore already present and concerns the entire region, because these institutions regularly send hybrid seeds and parental lines across borders.

Did you know that some plants yield hybrid seeds in Disney Magical World?

Das Threstha noted that Monsanto and all manner of hybrid seeds from that and other companies are well established in the country.

Here's a quick update on efforts to expand access to higher - yielding hybrid seed in Nepal.

The importance of observability is documented in an early and influential diffusion study that focused on adoption of hybrid seed corn in two communities in Iowa.

Careers may have you using advanced equipment, creating new hybrid seeds, raising animals, managing people or designing new products and packaging.

Several American and Indian companies sell the approved hybrid seed varieties in Nepal in response to the current — and increasing — market demand for them.

Then I watched as these small family farms were bought out by large commercial operations, who tore down fences, planted hybrid seed and added chemical fertilisers.

Last century, it was the mountains of corn made possible by hybrid seeds, agro-chemicals and cheap oil.

But then the stalks of corn from high - priced hybrid seeds began to take home banners, medals, and ribbons at state fairs, and farmers recognized that these new products were packed with new genetic information and that agricultural information was not free.

His efforts to introduce the desirable attributes of wild, perennial Glycine species into soybean plants began at the U. of I. in 1983 and followed a path that involved thousands of experiments, the development of a hormone treatment that «rescued» immature hybrid seeds from sterility, and multiple back - crosses of hybrid plants with their «recurrent parent,» Dwight.

Using conventionally bred hybrid seeds, farmers in certain fertile areas of Ethiopia have witnessed their fields turn into a breadbasket that is rivaled in the sub-Saharan region of the continent only by South Africa.

A cloning type of reproduction that doesn't rely on fertilization, called apomixis, introduced to crops would allow farmers to be able to save high - yield hybrid seed without to the necessity of annual interbreeding, according to University of Georgia professor Wayne Hanna.

But will heirloom adherents appreciate the look - alikes with hybrid seeds?

Fertilizers and hybrid seed contributed to this trend.

Another point to consider is the potential benefits of fostering a home - grown hybrid seed industry, which would reduce reliance on foreign companies and produce another source of income for the Nepalese.

Because farmers reap both environmental and economic benefits, most farmers in the U.S., including organic farmers, purchase hybrid seed.

While hybrid seed usually costs more than OP seed, it is a small proportion of overall costs of production.

As noted earlier, however, I believe that those who want to focus the discussion to either a single company, or to the commercial hybrid seed providers in general, miss the key concern.

Other opponents of hybrid seeds argue that hybrids encourage dependence and are part of a new form of economic imperialism by the developed world.

Genetically modified hybrid seeds can not be saved in the same manner as heirloom seeds.

[12] One recent study even suggests that if yield is the objective then there's no need for the headaches involved in producing hybrid seeds.

The two newest hybrid seeds — the Royal Hybrid 400 CL and the Royal Hybrid 1121 — answer different customer needs.

«I'm a plant scientist in Dr. Patel's lab at Big State University, with significant research experience in improving efficiency of various cropping systems under a range of environmental conditions, as well as working with parent lines development and hybrid seed production.

We are indebted to Professor Bill Henderson of Indiana Maurer Law School (@wihender) for introducing the legal profession to the Rogers Diffusion Curve, which grew, so to speak, out of research on how, why, and how rapidly the use of hybrid seed corn — invented in Iowa — spread among farmers.

Modernization means that these are given up in favor of hybrid seed, if affordable.

Bruce Fjelde, sales manager for CHS, notes that its hybrid seeds have solidified the company's position in the market.

He continued to experiment, however, and eventually developed a hormone treatment that interrupted the process that caused the hybrid seeds to abort.

In many cases, the hybrid seeds had to be repurchased from seed companies each year, helping to turn a handful of American and European seed breeders into corporate giants.

Companies drawn in by dreams of creating a hybrid seed market for rice akin to the North American hybrid maize market, were exasperated by years of investment without any returns.

Producing hybrid seed is a scientific advancement of the last century.

Hybrid seed yield more and require less pesticides (because they carry robust traits for resistance to pests and disease) as compared to open - pollinated seed.

Many seed companies around the world, in Japan, Europe, India, China, and North America, produce hybrid seed.

I don't grow field corn, which is the crop at issue in Nepal, but virtually all of the U.S. field corn crop is from hybrid seed.

It did not have a network of companies to sell farmers the hybrid seeds for the high - yield varieties, nor the fertilizer and pesticides necessary to take full advantage of those seeds.

There has been considerable discussion of late about U.S. agricultural development strategy in Nepal, Monsanto, and hybrid seeds.

The Government of Nepal began researching the use of hybrid seed varieties in 1987 and today, approximately 75 % of tomatoes, cauliflower, and many other vegetables in Nepal are grown from hybrid seed.

For example, there are those who repeatedly posit as absolute fact that the maize crop failures in 2009 were due to hybrid seeds.