Sentences with phrase «nitrogen use efficiencies»

Corn is among the most intensive uses of fertilizer, both per acre and in total use, and represents a significant opportunity for nitrogen use efficiencies that could reduce emissions as well as farmers» input costs while maintaining yields.

Corn is among the most intensive uses of fertilizer and represents a significant opportunity for nitrogen use efficiencies that could reduce GHG emissions while maintaining or improving yields.

The project aims to identify practices to optimize nitrogen use efficiency.

Introduction of «C4» traits into rice is predicted to increase photosynthetic efficiency by 50 %, improve nitrogen use efficiency and double water use efficiency.

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The dairy component of the nitrogen - use efficiency project will involve research partners who will contribute an additional A$ 500,000 ($ 364,000).

If their efficiency could be transferred to crops, we could grow more food in less time using less water and less nitrogen fertilizer.

«We use a proprietary platform called ultra-silicon-rich nitride, with a material composition of seven parts silicon, three parts nitrogen, with the large nonlinearity and photon efficiency needed for high gain amplification, through the efficient transfer of photons from a pump to the signal.

The NiTrac sensor developed by Cheng Hsun Ho and Wolf Frommer of the Carnegie Institution for Science will enable non-invasive real - time monitoring of nitrogen acquisition in action in plant roots, providing a new tool set that can be used to improve nitrogen efficiency.

A team at Rice University has used nitrogen - doped graphene quantum dots to create ethylene and ethanol, with stability and efficiency close to that of electrocatalysts like copper.

Chinese and IRRI partners are studying changes in rice yield and nitrogen - and water - use efficiencies, as well as the environmental effects of different water - use practices.

The use of a single amino acid supplement may lead to negative nitrogen balance, decreasing the metabolic efficiency and increasing the workload of the kidneys.

They believed that applications in western Canada were less likely, given the relatively good efficiency of nitrogen fertilizer use in this region (by such techniques as banding).

We can begin to improve agricultural nutrient - use efficiencies and reduce industrial forms of nitrogen and phosphorus with current knowledge and technology and without suffering major economic blows.

Concerted efforts to reduce nitrogen and phosphorus pollution from industry, improve the efficiency of their use in agriculture, and enhance their availability for use in fertilizer in food - insecure regions would have multiple benefits, including a reduction of climate risks.

In order of reduction, they call for controlling nitrogen oxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels using «maximum feasible reductions,» which could reduce reactive nitrogen emissions by 55 billion pounds of a year; increasing the efficiency of fertilizing crops (33 billion pounds a year); improved animal management policies (33 billion pounds); and ensuring that at least half the world's urban population has sewage treatment (11 billion pounds).