Sentences with phrase «of hybrid seed»

The importance of observability is documented in an early and influential diffusion study that focused on adoption of hybrid seed corn in two communities in Iowa.

We are indebted to Professor Bill Henderson of Indiana Maurer Law School (@wihender) for introducing the legal profession to the Rogers Diffusion Curve, which grew, so to speak, out of research on how, why, and how rapidly the use of hybrid seed corn — invented in Iowa — spread among farmers.

The Government of Nepal began researching the use of hybrid seed varieties in 1987 and today, approximately 75 % of tomatoes, cauliflower, and many other vegetables in Nepal are grown from hybrid seed.

«Green revolution» techniques like the spread of hybrid seeds and chemical fertilizers do indeed increase yields over the business - as - usual practices in many regions.

Not exact matches

The president of Great Lakes Hybrids Inc., an agricultural seed supplier based in Ovid, Mich., was too intoxicated by the wine's packaging to take a corkscrew to it.

satans aim was to stop the fulfillment of the seed that would crush satan underfoot.This hybrid between the angels and man created giants abominations in Gods eyes.They also were a threat to Gods people as can be seen by the giants in the land of caanan after the flood.If we agree on that then there is no way that Eve would have had intercourse with satan [false doctrine of the seed of satan -RCB- because the blood lines were still untainted by angelic beings or satan at the time of Noah maybe that is also why the genealogy of Christ is well presented with no surprises apart from Hagar and Ruth these two were gentiles that shows Gods mercy grace was always there to all nations he accepts people by faith not by race.Prior to the flood the mixing of the angels and man must have been widespread after the flood these beings were present but in limited numbers and God told his people to destroy them as they were abominations but they were a threat to Gods people.It would be interesting to hear what the rabbis had to say on this matter as i would think the stories would have been past down from generation to the next.Especially regarding the flood.God promised he would never flood the earth again but a time is coming when the earth will be judged not by flood but by fire Jesus is our ark and we are safe in him.brentnz

Aran you can buy seeds of Shirley poppies Papaver rhoeas pretty easily (aka Flander poppies, a hybrid of the wild field poppies bred initially by Reverend Shirley in the 19th C).

In the case of CHS Sunflower, the North Dakota company has created a variety of hybrid sunflower seeds to meet the expectations of customers in the United States and abroad.

«Our new hybrids are a larger type of inshell seed that is preferred in almost all the export markets,» he says.

The program also supposedly aims to address the improvement of seed quality, conversion of farmers from traditional farming to high - yielding hybrid rice seeds, lack of irrigation, and lack of fertilizers.

Campaigns in India have gained momentum against genetically engineered rice, including the Save our Rice network, the Folk Rice Movement and the Seed Mothers movement; all working to conserve and salvage thousands of traditional and indigenous seed varieties which would have otherwise been eroded by the onslaught of hybrid technology and conventional chemical inputs in the past decaSeed Mothers movement; all working to conserve and salvage thousands of traditional and indigenous seed varieties which would have otherwise been eroded by the onslaught of hybrid technology and conventional chemical inputs in the past decaseed varieties which would have otherwise been eroded by the onslaught of hybrid technology and conventional chemical inputs in the past decades.

Last century, it was the mountains of corn made possible by hybrid seeds, agro-chemicals and cheap oil.

Indonesia's well - institutionalized seed production system, infrastructure, availability of a good number of scientists, and a core group of hybrid rice breeders, make this an ideal time to ramp up hybrid rice research and development efforts,» said Dr. Bruce Tolentino, IRRI's Deputy Director - General.

The pods of the current year's plants will be true, but the seed in those pods will produce hybrids thereafter.

«I'm a plant scientist in Dr. Patel's lab at Big State University, with significant research experience in improving efficiency of various cropping systems under a range of environmental conditions, as well as working with parent lines development and hybrid seed production.

His efforts to introduce the desirable attributes of wild, perennial Glycine species into soybean plants began at the U. of I. in 1983 and followed a path that involved thousands of experiments, the development of a hormone treatment that «rescued» immature hybrid seeds from sterility, and multiple back - crosses of hybrid plants with their «recurrent parent,» Dwight.

As with other domesticated crops, it is thought that human migrations helped lead to the emergence of subspecies and hybrids with a consequence — reduced fertility --- but prized for their delectable fruits with high flesh and low seed content.

If plants aren't sterile - male, they can fertilise themselves and fewer of the seeds they produce will be hybrids.

In addition to showing growers and processors which hybrids could be planted at higher populations than normal, results of the study also challenge seed companies to improve CST.

Using conventionally bred hybrid seeds, farmers in certain fertile areas of Ethiopia have witnessed their fields turn into a breadbasket that is rivaled in the sub-Saharan region of the continent only by South Africa.

But because of the Chinese government's concern about foreign control of China's seed industry, Pray says, officials have allowed the company to commercialize only one hybrid cultivar.

«Hybrid rice varieties are grown at 20 to 25 pounds of seed per acre, versus 75 to 85 pounds with conventional varieties,» Gore said.

Tenera seeds, a hybrid of pisifera and dura, produce a nice thin shell and copious oil.

In many cases, the hybrid seeds had to be repurchased from seed companies each year, helping to turn a handful of American and European seed breeders into corporate giants.

At the time the main concern for plant breeders was pollen movement between different strains of crops — if a variety of sweet corn was contaminated by pollen from a popcorn variety, then the resulting hybrid offspring would produce seeds that were unusable for market purposes or for selecting new varieties.

Funding for the research was provided mainly by the United Soybean Board and partially by the Partnership for Research and Education in Plant Breeding and Genetics program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Ag Alumni Seed, AgReliant Genetics, Beck's Hybrids, ConAgraFoods, Dow AgroSciences, Indiana Crop Improvement Association and Pioneer Hi - Bred International.

IRRI is now free to seek plant breeders» rights, patents and all manner of IPRs on its breeding lines and varieties, whether conventional seeds, hybrids or GMOs.

Appendix 1: Global Status of Regulatory Approvals Appendix 2: Global Crop Protection Market Appendix 3: Useful Tables and Charts on the International Seed Trade Appendix 4: Deployment of Approved Bt Cotton Events / Hybrids / Variety by Companies / Institutions in India Appendix 5: Listing of Events, Bt Cotton Variety and Hybrids in India Appendix 6: The EMBRAPA: Brazilian Agricultural Research Cooperation

The F2 progeny — the offspring of a cross between any two unrelated seed lines — of sorghum hybrids segregate for male sterility and when present near johnsongrass, there is a high likelihood the male sterile sorghum will receive pollen from johnsongrass, he said.

The risk of contamination is therefore already present and concerns the entire region, because these institutions regularly send hybrid seeds and parental lines across borders.

I'm made this recipe as a bit of a hybrid between avocado mousse and chia pudding just to amplify the nutrition, provide a bit more fibre and sneak in some Omega 3 fats (with the chia seeds) because all good nutritionists like to sneak a little chia in here and there.

Ask them to explore the hybrid information provided at the Ag Alumni Seed Popcorn Web site and have them identify the traits the farmers might have been trying to develop in each type of hybrid popcorn plant.

PAAVEMGMT 1.0 SmartSchools ® has taken a very unique approach to plant two trees with one seed... (redeveloped, rehabbed or rehabilitated of abandoned properties or eyesores) in any neighborhood - which can be utilized as «Hybrid Homes» or a «SmartSchools» concepts - in remedying a «Sub / culture in Crisis,» especially among young boys and young men of color.

The seed of the myths was planted by a handful of aftermarket wheels, most of them two - or three - piece «hybrids» (carbon barrels with alloy hubs and spokes), none of them tested to OEM standards for road use.

The $ 2.1 million project is a hybrid incubator and seed fund that works to «nurture, support and increase the success rate of early - stage education startups and related business ventures.»

You still command an army of cute little brightly coloured plant / animal hybrids as you attempt to complete your scientific mission — in this case harvesting fruit seeds from the planet's surface in order to propagate new food supplies back on your home planet of Koppai.

Producing hybrid seed is a scientific advancement of the last century.

They explained on a Facebook post: ``... no new programs have been entered into by the US Government with the Government of Nepal to introduce hybrid maize seed as some articles suggest.»

Just five companies (Monsanto, Dow, Bayer, DuPont, and Syngenta) own more than 60 % of the global commercial seed supply, and with many of the modern seed varieties being hybrids that won't breed true for home gardeners and small - scale farmers, or that have regulations outlawing the collection and replanting of seeds, today's growers are being locked into a cycle of reduced genetic diversity, which may lead to a potentially dangerous food security situation in the near future.

If you have ever grown tomatoes in your backyard, ideally from heritage seeds, harvesting each plump red fruit at the height of ripeness, you know there is something missing from the hothouse hybrids at the local grocery.

Saving seeds is a simple and enjoyable art that resists corporate monopolies, the dominance of hybrids and GMOs, the destructive power of industrial agriculture, and the patenting of life.

A debt rescheduling agreement was recently reached between Saaten Union Research, a firm specialised in the production and marketing of varieties of hybrid and non-hybrid cereal seed, and its...

Our lawyers participate in every stage of capital formation, from seed financing, to growth equity capital, to hybrid and mezzanine financings, to the public markets, and from the public markets to leveraged finance and private equity.

Here you will find Tips and techniques for how to grow vegetables organically, vegetable seed varieties I recommend (both heirloom and some hybrids), timing of spring and succession plantings and much more.