Sentences with phrase «of traditional crop»

A feature review, to be published on December 16th in the Cell Press journal Trends in Plant Science, points the way to intensifying agriculture sustainably by fixing weaknesses that have sprung up quite by accident in the process of traditional crop breeding over the course of thousands of years.

The discovery also demonstrates the importance of conserving the genetic diversity of traditional crop varieties such as Kasalath.

Contamination of traditional crops and food systems by under - quality GM seeds are leading to loss of genetic purity, environmental problems and health concerns.

Crop failures, water scarcity and the migration of traditional crops are damaging rural livelihoods.

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Millennial preferences also shifted, but in the opposite direction — which could give the youngest crop of workers an advantage when vying for jobs in more traditional workplaces that value employee face time.

Clean meat will not require the land, water or crops of traditional meat production.

Last year, consumers were hit with one of the biggest price increases for traditional Thanksgiving trimmings in years, after poor weather shrank the size of U.S. crops.

For example, it's making crops more fungus - and drought - resistant through new techniques of traditional hybridizing.

Balinese rice farmers governed crop cultivation by the wisdom of the traditional water - temple system.

«Many of you may have known that we have embarked on a national diversification program, where emphasis is being placed on other crops other than traditional rice and sugar,» Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud said in a statement.

In the more traditional farming regions, Mr Marsh said grazing and cropping properties in the north and north - west of the state like Yarriambiack and the northern area of the Murray continued to rise in value.

The compositional evaluation of crops intentionally modified to express altered nutritional properties, such as GR2E Golden Rice, is intended to determine whether the composition differs significantly from its traditional counterpart aside from the intended change, and to assess the safety of the intended change and any unintended changes.

In 2005, the SAN standard did have critical criteria that required a conservation program that included establishment and maintenance of shade trees for traditional agroforestry crops.

That's why the Rainforest Alliance works with farmers to advance a variety of strategies, such as crop intensification (growing more food on less land), and with traditional forest - dwellers to develop livelihoods that don't hurt forests or ecosystems.

The designs feature the fjøsnissen, a sort of traditional Norwegian «barn Santa» who cleaned both the farm and the barn, looked after people and fairies, and provided goodwill and good crops.

Traditional crop improvement seeks broadly adapted genotypes to give best average performance under a standard management regime across the entire production region, with some subsequent manipulation of management regionally in response to average local environmental conditions.

To get a real taste of traditional Barbadian food, visitors need to go to the Bridgetown Market during Crop Over festivities.

Dr Henrik Stotz said: «As traditional methods of controlling crop disease become less effective, the need to breed new strains of crops with an inbuilt resistance to the disease pathogens increases.

These «second - generation» bioenergy crops are often seen as the future of bioenergy because, as perennials, they are far better at storing carbon in the soil and in their biomass than traditional fuel crops like corn and canola.

I personally feel that we are getting so involved in the potential risks of GM crops that we are forgetting the risk associated with traditional practices.

While farming methods vary, traditional manipulated «agroecosystems» generally differ from natural ecosystems in six ways: maintenance at an early successional state, monoculture, crops generally planted in rows, simplification of biodiversity, plough which exposes soil to erosion, use of genetically modified organisms and artificially selected crops meanwhile agroecology tends to minimize the human impact.

Luigi Guarino of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, a co-author of the paper, agreed: «Traditional crop varieties and their wild relatives found in one small part of the world could potentially be of use all over the woCrop Diversity Trust, a co-author of the paper, agreed: «Traditional crop varieties and their wild relatives found in one small part of the world could potentially be of use all over the wocrop varieties and their wild relatives found in one small part of the world could potentially be of use all over the world.

So you don't see genetic engineering of crops to be an extension of traditional breeding?

«Tomatoes of the same quality as normal, but using only half the water: Some farmers have already expressed their interested in these water - sustainable products that can produce more compound health benefits than traditional crops.»

For example, plant breeders working to develop crops that can resist pests and diseases or higher temperatures often look to the broad range of plants and traditional crops in primary regions of diversity as sources of useful traits for crop improvement.

That human selection of favorable traits continues, both through traditional crop breeding and through the more targeted use of genetic engineering.

Along with the traditional 40 - yard dashes and bench presses, the latest crop of aspirants also had to log time in front of a computer, trying to solve a series of brainteasers.

Dr. Shabala and his colleagues note that recent research on salt bladders creates the exciting possibility of modifying genes in traditional crops such as wheat or rice to allow them to develop salt bladders without a major impact on their growth and yield.

We had hybrids, but those were achieved in the traditional way of just crossing corn, and we used a tremendous number of pesticides on the crops.

If the climate warms so much that crops no longer thrive in their traditional settings, farming of some crops may be able to shift to adjacent areas, but others may not.

Traditional measures of crop - available phosphorus were similar for TSP and phosphate rock, but about 33 percent more phosphorus was bound to iron, and thus unavailable to crops, in TSP - fertilized plots.

The anti-GMO clichés go something like this: GM crops are unsafe to eat; they are bad for the environment; they are a tool of agribusiness corporations; and they exploit poor farmers who must buy seed as opposed to their traditional practice of saving seed.

COLLEGE STATION — From traditional crop production to livestock, Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientists from across the state provided updates on a multitude of unmanned aerial systems, or UAS, projects recently in College Station.

Mouse feeding tests show GM technology is a safer way of delivering protection of crops from insects with the Bt - protein insect than is the traditional delivery method.

Coconut water is actually a secret of traditional Chinese herbalists for watering crops and accelerating their growth.

Usually, local growers of crops and herbs have all the ancient knowledge and traditional wisdom at hand, but in this rare instance, it seems that the corporations are more efficient, with machinery that breaches the plant's branches with the optimal frequency.

According to folklore, beans were considered one of the «three sisters» of traditional agricultural cropping methods used by Native Americans, who inter-cropped maize, squash, and beans to reap the most of each plant's benefits.

Truth: In Third World countries, soybeans replace traditional crops and transfer the value added of processing from the local population to multinational corporations.

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This revolutionary blouse has the silhouette of a traditional collared work - wear top with the modern twist of the cropped length.

The choice of the cropped blazer suit and animal prints heals here, is a bit of a fun, flirty, and contemporary twist to the usual traditional suit and more professional look.

This cropped trench is currently at the top of my wish list — I love the classic details & I think the shorter length will actually make it more wearable with casual styles than a traditional knee - length version.

The denim range includes a variety of styles including your classic skinny, boyfriend, cropped flare, and these more traditional flare.

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Made in a traditional, classic double - breasted style, this coat is cut to a cropped length for easy, versatile dressing In the colour of the season, it's crafted with a refined aesthetic — it has a soft checked lining, flap pockets and a button fastening at the back so that the waist belt doesn't slip around (it's the little things that matter after all).

And third, even if you're going for a relatively traditional set of figure - flattery priorities, crop tops are great on a wide variety of figure shapes and sizes.

Monster Hunter fans are those most likely to be drawn into Dauntless» world of hunting, well, monsters, but this is a game that I feel can reach beyond that audience, tapping into players of traditional MMOs, the modern crop of online co-op games like Destiny and The Division, and many other.

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.

Detractors often challenge these results by accusing charter schools of skimming the cream of the crop or selecting a disproportionate number of gifted students compared to traditional public schools.