Sentences with phrase «own wheat plants»

And although prospective US wheat plantings of 47.3 million acres were above last year's 46.0 - million - acre total, wheat stockpiles are expected to push materially below 2017 levels.5
We might soon slip to second place yet again, for two primary reasons: 1) low U.S. wheat plantings and 2) severe droughts and unexpectedly hot weather conditions in the Northern Plains.
All wheat planted area for 2013 is estimated at 56.5 million acres, up 1 percent from 2012.
This makes me happy: a research project has identified a gene that gives wheat plants resistance to one of the most deadly races of the wheat stem rust pathogen, Ug99.
If you are not familiar with wheatgrass - it's basically the first leaves that sprout from an actual wheat plant.
The only oil that is derived from a gluten containing source; wheat germ oil is a fatty acid found in very small quantities within the small embryo of the wheat plant.
Purpose of the release: To test field performance of the novel wheat plants resistance to aphids.
Farmers in Russia will change the time of wheat planting [for example], and may switch to a different crop if the hot summer of today becomes the norm of the future.»
It was not much to ask for after 15 days incarcerated in one of NASA's experimental chambers with only 30 000 wheat plants for company.
The wheat plants grew in the other.
By inserting a cloned version of the wild gene into conventional wheat plants they boosted the amount of protein, zinc and iron in the grain by 10 to 15 percent.
A paper recently published in Crop Science examines connections between fructans in wheat plants, wheat - based food products, and impacts of fructan consumption on human health.
To find out if how the nitrogen is delivered makes a difference, Arnold Bloom, a crop physiologist at the University of California, Davis, and his team monitored the growth of wheat plants raised in high levels of carbon dioxide.
Eduard Akhunov, associate professor of plant pathology at Kansas State University, and his colleague, Jorge Dubcovsky from the University of California - Davis, led a research project that identified a gene that gives wheat plants resistance to one of the most deadly races of the wheat stem rust pathogen — called Ug99 — that was first discovered in Uganda in 1999.
Planting nonhost crops and removing volunteer wheat plants can help break this cycle.
The protest group calling itself Take the Flour Back, which has threatened to destroy a field of genetically modified (GM) wheat plants on 27 May, has responded to an open letter from researchers asking them not to do it.
The resource, a collection of wheat seeds with more than 10 million sequenced and carefully catalogued genetic mutations, is freely available to wheat breeders and researchers, and is already aiding in the development of wheat plants with improved traits.
«New tools will drive greater understanding of wheat genes: Vast genetic resource will aid development of wheat plants with improved traits.»
An RNA that inhibits activity of VRN2 speeds up flowering (right) compared to an unmodified wheat plant (left).
They damaged hundreds of genetically modified (GM) wheat plants, brazenly photographing themselves in the act.
The team found that 61 to 65 per cent of the N - 15 fertilizer applied in 1982 was taken up by the sugar beet and wheat plants over the 30 - year study.
Wheat plants lacking the protective gene don't see the fungus as a threat.
APHIS was alerted by an Oregon farmer who found that the wheat plants survived after he tried to clear his field using Roundup.
The short stocky wheat plant relocated the resources it would have spent on the stem, into the grain.
Foreign Agricultural 4 months Global Research Team Identifies Pathogen Gene that Wheat Plants Detect to «Switch On «Resistance
However learning even simple tasks such as growing and crossing wheat plants requires time and effort, while material and methods sections in published articles are often short and can not substitute teaching aids.
It's estimated that 5 % of the proteins found in hybridized wheat are new proteins that were not found in either of the original wheat plants.
The seeds of the wheat plant contain this difficult to digest plant protein.
A popular book «wheat belly», refers to evidence the wheat plant has been re-engineered in order to produce more in a shorter time in short in the name of profits.
In one hybridization experiment, 14 new gluten proteins were identified in the offspring that were not present in either parent wheat plant
It has an extremely high nutrient concentration that can not be found in the mature wheat plant.
Gluten is a part of the seed and not the wheat plant itself.
Wheat germ is basically the best part of wheat plant; it's what will nourish a new wheat plant yet to grow.
I wonder how much is gluten intolerance and how much is related to the use of chemicals like Roundup used to kill wheat plants allowing drying time before harvest.
Between these factors and that the fact that the actual wheat plant has evolved way beyond it's original genetic makeup, most guts have trouble digesting wheat products.
This topic is an opportunity to experience the role of a farmer by growing their own wheat plants and understanding the impact of the different seasons.
This topic is an opportunity to experience the role of a farmer by growing their own wheat plants and understanding the impact of the different sea...
Across the country, rising fuel and fertilizer costs have dampened the acreage of wheat planted, with more farmers now planting soybeans instead.

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There is, unfortunately, no getting around the fact that the government will need to spend even more money on farmers than it does today if it wants to save the industry, whether it's for developing a perennial wheat, funding a home - grown advertising campaign or investing more into making car parts from plants.
In the U.S., Lawson says high wheat prices have sparked a vicious cycle that is skewing farmers» planting decisions, and driving prices on other crops higher, too.
Since its 2013 demonstration as a genome editing tool in Arabidopsis and tobacco — two widely used laboratory plants — CRISPR has been road - tested in crops, including wheat, rice, soybeans, potatoes, sorghum, oranges and tomatoes.
According to a March report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), American farmers just aren't planting wheat like they used to.
High prices probably encouraged farmers to expand planting of peas and lentils earlier this year, especially with wheat and canola prices down from last year.
Following an increase in wheat production in 1998/99 of nearly 9 per cent, the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics expects to see a further rise in 1999/2000 of around 4 per cent, reflecting an increase in the area planted and favourable seasonal conditions.
«It is challenging to put pulses in knowing that returns are not going to be as profitable,» said grower Morgan Nunweiler, who plans to slash his lentil acres in half and plant more wheat on his 3,000 - acre farm hear Rosetown, Saskatchewan.
@David The Book of Mormon mentions several animals, plants, and technologies that are not substantiated by the archaeological record between 3100 BC to 400 AD in America, including the following: ass, cow, horses, ox, domesticated sheep, swine, goats, elephants, wheat, barley, silk, steel, swords, scimitars, chariots and other elements.
@Ward Imagine yourself on a plain planted with wheat.
I don't know what kind of seed is being planted here, but let's say it is wheat or barley.
The bible said we were like a grain of wheat or corn and must die «to that form» (implied) as the plant to arise only represents that seed in its natural purpose, and does not resemble it at all.
John 12:24 I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat is planted in the soil and dies, it remains alone.
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