Sentences with phrase «major vegetable crops»

Like other trees, the oil palm plant serves as a natural reservoir for carbon and is more effective at sequestering carbon than other major vegetable crops.
Cucumber is a major vegetable crop consumed worldwide as well as a model system for sex determination and plant vascular biology.

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«Imagine re-educating the nation and utilising the two major crops of Aboriginal Australia: yams (as well as other root vegetables) and grains.
Ranked among the top five major plant pathogens in the world, root - knot nematodes are microscopic roundworms that infect the roots of more than 2,000 fruit, vegetable and ornamental crops, such as lettuce, tomatoes, strawberries and carnations, across the world.
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.»
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