Sentences with phrase «major grain crops»

«CO2 Impact Analysis: Will Increased CO2 Be of Harm or Benefit To Major Grain Crops?

Free - air concentration enrichment (FACE) technology has now facilitated large - scale trials of the major grain crops at elevated [CO2] under fully open - air field conditions.

The results are broken down into five broad groups of plants: monocots, including palms, orchids and grasses (with the major grain crops among them); bryophytes, including mosses and liverworts; pteridophytes, including ferns; gymnosperms, including conifers and cycads; and dicots, encompassing other plants.

Not exact matches

«Imagine re-educating the nation and utilising the two major crops of Aboriginal Australia: yams (as well as other root vegetables) and grains.

Winter wheat is one of the major small - grain crops typically planted for grain or forage in the region, DeLaune said.

In 2010, droughts in Russia, Ukraine, China and Argentina and torrential storms in Canada, Australia and Brazil — all major wheat and grain producers — considerably diminished global crops, driving commodity prices up.

«What we found is that it's not a linear relationship between the nitrous oxide and the [nitrogen fertilizer] rate applied, but a nonlinear, exponential trend across many different crop types,» including corn, major grain types, rice and grasses, said study co-author Neville Millar, senior research associate with Michigan State's W.K. Kellogg Biological Station.

But the amount of chemicals added to our modern - day crops is a major difference between the grains ancient man was eating and the grains we eat today.

Major food producing areas like Russia, the US Grain Belt, and the South have already taken devastating climate hits and seen crops wiped out.

In a world with limited grain stocks, a crop - shrinking heat wave in a major grain - producing region could lead to food shortages and political instability.

• reducing the risk of major killers like heart disease, stroke and cancers while cutting exposure to food borne pathogens; • offering a viable answer to feeding the world's hungry, through more efficient use of grains and other crops; • saving animals from suffering in factory farm conditions and from painful slaughter; • conserving vital, but limited freshwater, fertile topsoil and other precious resources; • preserving irreplaceable ecosystems, such as rainforests and other wildlife habitats; • mitigating the ever - expanding environmental pollution of animal agriculture; and the list goes on.

According to wikipedia «Soybeans can produce at least twice as much protein per acre than any other major vegetable or grain crop, 5 to 10 times more protein per acre than land set aside for grazing animals to make milk, and up to 15 times more protein per acre than land set aside for meat production.»