Sentences with phrase «new crops such»

In addition to staple tropical crops like coffee, bananas, tea and cocoa, new crops such as grapes, açai and chestnuts were added in 2008.

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The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), a non-profit based in Massachusetts, has identified a number of potential risks posed by such crops, ranging from introducing new allergens to the food supply to increasing antibiotic resistance in humans and animals.

An entirely new crop of companies was also working to combine music and social networking, such as Spotify, Pandora and Last.fm.

Developers have been launching new Bitcoin projects at a rapid pace, and now a crop of incubators such as 500 Startups and Boost has emerged hoping to discover the next great idea in the space.

Along with established international brands such as Louis Vuitton and Burberry moving in, a crop of homegrown fashion houses has emerged, including Maki Oh, a Nigerian womenswear label that showed at New York Fashion Week in March, has been featured in Vogue and is worn by American singer Azealia Banks.

New technologies, such as farm machinery and seed varieties, drove the consolidation of Prairie farms to take advantage of the greater ability to cultivate and harvest crops on a larger scale.

This new crop of writers doesn't have all the answers, and they sometimes disagree sharply, but the Christian church has never before had such a resource.

«18 In the present context of globalization it is not only necessary to reject «the Western pretence of universalism,» writes Rajni Kothari, «but also for non-Western cultures to seek answers to their problems from within and, in the process, not only provide pluralism in techno - cultural system but, through such pluralism, help Westerners themselves to deal with the new crop of problems they now encounter.

A one - time investment to develop a biofortified crop such as Golden Rice can generate new varieties for farmers to grow for years to come, in many different countries.

The newer process of genetic engineering, which involves inserting genes from unrelated species into a plant's genome to add desirable traits, has been used in crops such as corn, soy, and potatoes.

Clearly, farmers» agricultural knowledge and skills was an inspiration to develop a new, collaborative approach towards a more efficient use of inputs such as energy, more profitable crop production and maintenance of greater genetic diversity in situ.

Huang Dafang, a member of the biosafety committee in charge of agricultural GM organisms, which is affiliated with the Ministry of Agriculture, said that using a new generation of GM crops, such as golden rice, to achieve nutritional improvements is now a global trend.

After babyhood, bouts of separation anxiety tend to crop up in the presence of other life stressors, such as moving, travel, divorce, or a new caregiver or classroom.

With juice consumption on the decline and a few bumper - crop years, New York's grape farmers are struggling, trying to come up with alternatives beyond juice, such as fruit jerky or a new branNew York's grape farmers are struggling, trying to come up with alternatives beyond juice, such as fruit jerky or a new brannew brandy.

As such, any recommended increase can not take effect until a new crop of legislators — even if most are re-elected incumbents — is seated in 2016.

Preliminary results from the five - year study (funded by Monsanto) suggest that new strategies, such as combining multiple chemicals and applying herbicides both before and after weeds emerge, can improve crop yields compared with the typical glyphosate - heavy approach, while slowing the emergence of resistance.

The new and improved wheat assembly will help wheat breeders accelerate their crop improvement programmes and researchers to discover genes for key traits such as yield, nutrient use and bread making quality.

The aim is to ensure that the benefits resulting from researching animals, plants and microorganisms, such as the invention of new medicines or enhanced genes to improve crop varieties, are «fairly and equitably shared» among the providers and users.

In addition to helping farmers check crop health, the new system will be helpful for studying how plants respond to changes in growing conditions and for high - throughput phenotyping, an automated method used in crop research and development to analyze how genetic modifications affect plant characteristics such as leaf size or drought resistance in a large number of plants.

The new crops which replace the poppy, such as wheat or peas, are not such as will give as good a honey yield.

Such diversity research has already led to the development of disease - resistant strains and the identification of crops that could thrive under higher carbon dioxide conditions, as well as new ways to deploy diversity.

Seed companies can counter this by engineering new crops that are resistant to additional herbicides — such as a new soya bean developed by Dow AgroSciences of Indianapolis, Indiana — something that Benbrook argues will actually increase herbicide use.

The new species was discovered as part of a 5 - year, $ 4.36 million study funded by the National Science Foundation to inventory all 1500 or so species in the Solanum genus — a diverse group that includes poisonous plants commonly known as nightshades as well as agriculturally important crops such as tomatoes, potatoes, and eggplants.

One solution to these growing problems, however, might be to reorganize the country's crop production and trade, especially in agricultural provinces such as Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang and Hebei, according to new report issued by Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and School of Engineering and Applied Science and scientists in China and Japan.

«We can easily extend our new model to simulate the growth processes of other staple crops, such as soybeans and wheat.

This new line of broccoli could be grown in such systems and would overcome the problem of seasonality and our dependence on imported crops.»

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.

Furthermore, other factors will come into play, such as the local availability of water, competition with other crops such as wheat or corn, and the sheer cost of planting and maintaining new vineyards and production facilities.

New gene - editing technologies such as CRISPR have sped the development of new crop varieties and animals, but products based on engineered organisms sometimes face a web of complex and overlapping regulations before they can reach the markNew gene - editing technologies such as CRISPR have sped the development of new crop varieties and animals, but products based on engineered organisms sometimes face a web of complex and overlapping regulations before they can reach the marknew crop varieties and animals, but products based on engineered organisms sometimes face a web of complex and overlapping regulations before they can reach the market.

New World Discovery The cultivated tomato is a member of the nightshade family that includes New World crops such as potato and chili pepper, which spread around the world after Christopher Columbus brought them back to Spain in the 15th century.

A new model of crop yields will help predict the possible size of harvests, and help provide advice to farmers such as this woman in Indonesia.

The new analysis found that conventional crops such as corn had the highest yield of biomass that can be turned into biofuel on marginal lands, although their ability to reduce CO2 is harmed by tilling, fertilizing and other CO2 - producing activities necessary to turn them into fuel.

Understanding drought - responsive signaling and the molecular and biochemical mechanisms of drought tolerance in model plants such as Arabidopsis and rice provide new insight into how to develop drought - tolerant crop plants through conventional breeding or biotechnological approaches.»

«On the one hand, it says that we should regulate by the product, and not the process, but then goes on to admit that the newer GE techniques, such as gene editing and synthetic biology, will produce more diverse and complex traits in more crops that could raise new safety concerns, noting that even the newer gene editing techniques have off - target effects,» he said.

There are many health - boosting GMOs in development, including bananas with increased iron; plants that make omega - 3 fish oils and rice, sorghum and cassava enriched with vitamin A. New crops, such as those engineered to tolerate drought or excess salt in the soil, could play a crucial role as shifts in climate threaten the farming status quo and in turn, food supplies.

In other words, substantial equivalence means that a new product such as a GM crop must be the same as the non-GM crop except for the traits that were enhanced, added, or removed through genetic engineering.

Swing dance specialist and levitation guru Jeffrey Smith keeps claiming either that no scientific tests have been performed on new genetically engineered (GE or GM) food crops or else that any such tests are inadequate.

Technology such as high - yielding wheat varieties that tolerate drought and high temperatures, as well as resisting new or modified strains of deadly crop diseases spawned in rapidly warming environments, are the outputs from WHEAT research that lead to positive outcomes for farmers and consumers.

The new study estimates land available for growing biofuels — crops such as corn or sugarcane that can be converted to fuels - at between 56 and 1035 million hectares, compared to previous estimates of 320 to 1411 million hectares.

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I harvested my pumpkins yesterday and it was a surprisingly good crop to say we had such a dry year... now I have plenty of new ideas on how to cook them.

There are still some good sized agencies operating in the United States, and even a few new ones cropping up such as the «It's just lunch» real time adult matchmaking services.

An emerging crop of programs tailored to preparing charter school principals shows promise when compared with traditional leadership - training programs, but those programs «miss or treat too lightly» certain issues that many leaders of such schools struggle with most, says a new report.

I'm sure there are a number of reasons why this solution may not be feasible, but it sure would provide a disincentive to charters to NOT cull the cream of the crop from public schools then push the more challenging cases out of their schools and into neighborhood public schools, at least not midway through the academic year when the negative consequences of such outcomes are compounded because of the disruption this transience evidently brings to the student and her new schoolmates.

With a design inspired by models such as the first - gen Cervo and Vitara with a hint of previous - gen Swift, the new Ignis manages to stand out from the current crop of high - riding vehicles in its class, and it's doing it with a quirky yet appealing design.

WordPress has released an update to its Android app for smartphone and tablet devices, which brings within its scope the new crop of tablets such as the Kindle Fire and Nook Color or the Nook Tablet.

With no cohesive plan or desire to actively expand that audience by advertising outside of the comic world (like perhaps an ad in women's magazines about female centric characters might reach, you know, women), an unwillingness to grow a new crop of fans by maintaining a consistent product for kids and a host of other issues like the economy and increasing competition form other areas of entertainment, it's no wonder things are in such disarray.

A newer crop of lenders that use digital technology to approve smaller, short - term loans can sometimes be used to access cash quickly, often charging very high interest rates and fees.3 Some loans may be backed by business assets such as securities, equipment, inventory, and accounts receivable.

With all the usual staples of Harvest Moon included; such as growing crops, tending livestock, and gathering materials for repairs; players will be able to make new friends, start a family, revive the lighthouse and save the town.

The mobile version of Minecraft is pretty much identical to its PC counterpart that we all know and love, but with added features such as new blocks, additional crops and improved lighting and fog effects.