Sentences with phrase «improved grain yields»

A team of investigators led by Motoyuki Ashikari of Nagoya University and Hitoshi Sakakibara of the Plant Science Center in Yokohama, Japan, analyzed the rice genome and identified several regions of DNA tied to improved grain yields.

Her team integrates both computational and experimental approaches to explore how perturbations to these gene networks can alter morphology, both within a species and across the grasses, with the ultimate goal of defining targets for improving grain yield in cereals.

Not exact matches

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 Farms.com team visits the VanQuaethem and Willmart Grain farms to see how they are incorporating new innovative machinery and software to improve their yields.

In order to create wheat that yields more grain, resist fungal diseases and pest attacks, improves the ease of harvesting (mechanically) and meets the unrealistic demands of industrial milling and mechanized baking methods, science has intervened and it's our health that's paying the price.

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.

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.

He persuaded developing countries to adopt this new seed — and later, an improved rice — ultimately tripling global cereal grain yield.

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

«Crop yields have steadily improved over the past 60 years, but the amount of water required to produce one ton of grain remains unchanged — which led most to assume that this factor could not change.

Two of the most efficient were Rubisco from plants known as Aegilops cylindrica (jointed goatgrass) and Hordeum vulgare (barley), which both showed promising Rubisco catalytic properties that should be explored in the context of improving photosynthesis, and ultimately grain yield, in wheat.

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.

«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.

But if educators are serious about using assessment to improve instruction, then we need more fine - grained assessments, and we need to use the information they yield to modify instruction as we teach.