Sentences with phrase «important rice crop»

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Our Brown Rice Protein is a high - quality protein sourced from one of the world's most important crops.

And on the world - food security front, ARS» Stuttgart center is closing in on genes that regulate rice's uptake and storage of iron, thiamine and other important vitamins and minerals — a pursuit that could bolster the nutritional value of this cereal grain crop as a staple food for roughly half the world's population.

Rice is the staple food crop for more than half of the world's population, and is especially important in Asia, where more than 60 % of the world's 1 billion poorest live.

Rice is a staple food for almost half of the global population and is one of the most important crops in Asia.

«It's important to incorporate C4 in rice because rice grows in places where other crops such as maize do not grow and because rice is the staple food of more than half the world, including many people who live in poverty.»

Rice is the most important food crop in the developing world and the staple of more than half of the world's population.

In recent centuries potatoes have become the world's most important tuber crop and its fourth most important source of food energy (after rice, wheat, and maize): farmers and gardeners grow them worldwide.

«Optimising rice processing is also important for farmers and industry as grain breakage during milling can cause crop value to plummet to as little as one per cent, something parboiling can help to avoid.»

Aside from its work on grasses, CIAT has focused on breeding improved varieties of beans, rice and cassava — staple crops that are important to the food security of the rural poor.

But a pioneering study reported in 2004 gave an alarming answer for one of the world's most important crops: rice, the staff of life for billions of people around the world.

Each year, fungal infections destroy at least 125 million tons of the world's five most important crops - rice, wheat, maize, soybeans and potatoes - a quantity that could feed 600 million people.

In Madagascar, for example, the most important food crops include rice, cassava, maize, sugarcane, wheat, sweet potatoes, soybean, beans, and bananas, all of which originated elsewhere.

The new findings obtained by CSHL Professor David Jackson and colleagues may have important implications for efforts to boost yields of essential food crops such as corn and rice.

Rice is one of the most important food crops on earth.

This work is carried out with a view to understanding how developmental mechanisms were altered as the more efficient C4 pathway evolved, and with the long - term aim of engineering C4 anatomy into agronomically important C3 crops such as rice.

Likewise, in economically important cereal crops such as maize, rice, and wheat (Triticum aestivum), precision engineering of localized BR biosynthesis and signaling can be harnessed to fine - tune plant development and generate high - yielding crop ideotypes (Vriet et al., 2012).

Grasses such as rice, wheat, maize and sorghum are important cereal crops grown in different parts of the world.

A secure supply of thousands of varieties of keystone crops like rice and wheat will be ever more important, experts say, as populations grow, climate changes, and people keep moving species around the global, both intentionally and accidentally.

«Rice is the most consumed staple crop in the world and maize is close behind in rank as the third most important cereal crop.

That's a problem, because rice is one of the most important staple crops on Earth — more than 3.5 billion people depend on rice for at least 20 percent of their daily caloric intake.

Rice at that time was emerging as an important cash crop.