Sentences with phrase «plant crops like»

You get to plant crops like beans.

Not exact matches

Israeli startup Prospera recently attracted $ 7 million to fund its approach, which is to install cameras along with other sensors in fields and compare crops «leaf by leaf» with its database of thousands of plants to identify problems like pests, parasites and nutrient deficiencies.

Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta already grow large volumes of relevant crops (like lentils, peas and beans), house plant - science and ingredient research and development, have good transportation and logistics infrastructure and enjoy the benefits of preferential access to the U.S. market.

Unlike many plantation crops, like rubber and oil palm, cocoa can be grown with a diverse mixture of other plants.

A group of biologists from the Missouri - based Donald Danforth Plant Science Center have uncovered a genetic mechanism that could increase the yields of some of the world's most important cereal crops, like maize and sorghum.

I would like to hear about their crop rotations and perennial plantings for soil health.

«The greatest demand is for sheep meat and wool, dry land cropping and irrigated row cropping (at scale) and permanent plantings like tree nuts and citrus,» Mr Thomas said.

As a rule of thumb, plant breeders in both public research institutes and private companies use genetic engineering only in the following situations: 1) the gene of interest is not found within the crop gene pool, 2) if found in the gene pool, transfer will be difficult due to incompatibility and other breeding problems or 3) the transfer of the gene will take a long time as in the case of perennial crops like coconut.

Potential plant sources for prebiotic carbohydrates include cereals and legume crops like barley, wheat, chickpea and lentils; vegetables like chicory, Jerusalem artichoke, onion, garlic, okra, and leek; and fruits like dragon fruit, jack fruit, palm fruit, nectarine and mushroom.

The world's exploding population has made it profitable for big business to raze forests so it can plant mega crops like soy and oil palm; meanwhile, on a much, much smaller scale, subsistence farmers often clear trees so they can plant crops to feed their families and bring in small amounts of cash.

Even more exotic flavors come from so - called «superfoods,» a trendy crop of nutrient - packed plants like acai and goji berries, aloe vera, and pomegranate.

I was lucky because I planted early and managed to harvest all the fruit by mid-March, but you can harvest until May and those who planted a little later, like my best friend, have lost nearly all their crop.

Groups like the Union of Concerned Scientists have raised concerns about the environmental impacts of releasing new genetically modified crops into the open to reproduce with existing plants.

Digital plants like these are part of a new movement in agricultural science called «in silico,» where researchers design highly accurate, computer - simulated crops to help speed up selective breeding, in which plants are chosen and replanted to amplify their desirable traits.

On a practical level, scientists would like to be able to use lab - propagation techniques on crop plants such as maize that still require normal pollination.

The axiom, «growing like a weed,» takes on new meaning in light of changes in gene expression that occur when weeds interact with the crops they infest, according to plant scientist Sharon Clay.

But just like all wild plant species, these «crop wild relatives» (CWR) are also at risk of decline and extinction due to habitat loss, pollution, and climate change.

While farmers concentrate on high - carbohydrate crops like rice and potatoes, the mix of wild plants and animals in the diets of surviving hunter - gatherers provides more protein and a bettter balance of other nutrients.

Cool season crops have three advantages: the cooler temperatures allow plants to grow without losing as much water through transpiration (like humans» sweat) as crops that grow during hot weather.

Bouis, an economist at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), envisioned impoverished farmers in Africa and South Asia growing staple crops that are enriched in key nutrients like iron, zinc, and vitamin A. His presentation had the audience hooked — until he said he would accomplish the feat via old - fashioned plant breeding techniques.

They have boosted production by planting more leguminous crops, like clover.

Mexico is in the middle - ground due to the continued popularity in local diets of crops like maize and beans, two plants native to the region, alongside sugarcane (with origins in Southeast and South Asia) and wheat.

AltAir does better by sourcing its bio — jet fuel from oil seed — bearing plants, like camelina, but that limits the amount that can be planted in rotation with food crops like wheat given constraints on the amount of land available for the latter.

But the aura that this is a wonder crop that you can plant in the desert and harvest gold» is a dangerous notion that threatens social and economic sustainability, Joos says, adding that jatropha needs to be managed like any other crop.

Like an earlier generation of gene - edited crops already in commercial use, those two products don't fall in USDA's purview because their genomes contain no foreign DNA from species considered to be plant pests.

For three years, they planted cover crops like hairy vetch - triticale and cereal rye, followed by cash crops like corn and soybeans.

The farmers also won't need special equipment to deal with the leftover plant matter, called residue, in the crops rows like they do when they plant in no - till.

Like other trees, the oil palm plant serves as a natural reservoir for carbon and is more effective at sequestering carbon than other major vegetable crops.

Instead of processing commodities that might otherwise be used for food, next generation fuels can be produced from dedicated energy crops like switchgrass, to the non-edible parts of corn plants, to unmarketable wood from the lumber industry — taking resources that would otherwise go to waste and using them to fuel our energy independence.

«The results show that crop plants like potatoes and tomatoes give an immune response as soon as they contain this recognition complex, and that if infected, they show far fewer symptoms than unmodified plants,» says Dr. Isabell Albert.

PULLMAN, Wash. — Crop scientists at Washington State University have explained how genes in the barley plant turn on defenses against aging and stressors like drought, heat and disease.

With about $ 540,000 provided by the U.S. National Science Foundation Plant Genome Research Program as part of the total project's $ 2.9 - million in funding, he will be able to learn whether that protein plays a similarly crucial role in crops like tomatoes.

Genome sequencing has helped scientists understand pets such as dogs and cats; agricultural animals like cows and pigs; crop plants such as rice, corn, barley; and a host of other living things.

They use natural plant centromeres (a key part of chromosomes needed for their inheritance), promoters (gene activation sites), and gene - termination sequences to assemble linear or circular minichromosomes that contain at least a dozen genes that can improve crops by promoting traits like pest and disease resistance.

Organic farmers have lower crop yields and smaller crops, and have to manage pests with time - consuming, natural methods like crop rotation, interplanting, and the use of ladybugs, rather than simply spraying a plant with toxic pesticides.

Using methods like planting shrubs, fertilizing with compost, and moving cover crops, the Institute has been able to keep carbon out of the atmosphere and in the soil, where it can better conserve water.

Topsoils continually used to farm commercial crops may be depleted of these, and the only plants that will have access to them are those with long root systems which can mine the subsoils, like dandelions.

Early harvested vegetables, like spinach, radishes and peas, can be planted with slower growing crops like broccoli or peppers, which will not take over the space until the spring harvested vegetables are gone.

my understanding of regular potatoes any color skin flesh etc. is this... potatoes are on the dirty dozen list... sweet potatoes are on the clean 15... i eat over 50 % of my diet in the form of a few different colors of sweet potatoes... i buy them bulk... peel»em very deeply... at least 1/2 inch all around... i sometimes get them as large as 6 pounds (football sized)... i used to wear out the regular potatoes but after speaking with the safety expert from a huge potato company to find out if the potatoes are grown on soil which had grain crops treated with round - up herbicide filled with atrazine and glyphosate (which most grain crops are... inluding many wheat crops... they get sprayed like 3 days before harvest... then the round - up is in the soil)... problem is... the round - up stays for 7 years... after stayin» off the soil for a couple years... it can have any kind of crop planted on it and get an organic rating... but... whatever was planted on that soil is then full of round - up... so... this crop rotation onto fields which had grain crops sprayed with round - up herbicide etc. is EXTREMELY COMMON IN THE GROWING PRACTICE FOR REGULAR POTATOES... very common practice... so even if you peel»em deeply... they are still soaked with round - up... the glyphosates get in the gut... the aluminum which is all over everything grown above ground and not covered (hot house etc)... gets eaten9ya can't wash it off... unless ya peel everything... but greens etc. ya can not get it out... it gets in the fiber)... then ya eat it... it goes in the gut... mixes with the glyphosate... becomes 10,000 timesmore toxic... inhibits the bodies ability to properly process sulfur into sulfide and sulfate... basically many very smart researchers are sayin'this is the cause of all this asperger's... autism... alzheimer's like symptoms in the elderly... you can only take so much nano... pico... and heavy metal poisoning... the brain starts to act very strangely... so... long story short... i eat lots of sweet pots grown on clean soil... they are non-gmo and basically grown organically... but... the grower doesn't pay for the certification... i make sure to get my omega 3 from fresh ground flax seed in the morning away from my sweet potato consumption... the omega 6 in the sweet pots inhibits the absorption of omega 3 and i only want so much fat daily... i'm on the heart attack proof diet by dr. caldwell b. esselstyn jr....

This is the type of diet that is attained from biodiverse farming — the opposite of what will occur if GM crops like golden rice get planted on a large scale, requiring the removal of all other competing life forms.

Once the radishes have grown, you can then use a cultivator like the Amazone Catros 6002 - 2 on the field — this increases the yield of the next crops you plant here.

This is achieved by planting and harvesting different crops, along with other avenues like animal husbandry and forestry.

Like most farmers, Walter plants a variety of crops in rotation, that is changing the crops planted in a field each year to save and replace soil nutrients: oats one year, then corn and then hay.

Yet, even under these circumstances, Walter is able to buy a tractor to replace the horses, which, like most farmers at the time, he uses to plow the soil, plant, the seeds and harvest the crops.

Most of the time I go right on growing tomatoes and basil and broccoli simply because they are good, we like them, I'm determined to figure out the right planting time for cole crops, and broccoli attracts hordes of green looper caterpillars that throw Lily's chickens into paroxysms of chicken joy.

He knows that certain businesses will never be more than niches, and like a good farmer would, harvests his specialty crop each year, but doesn't plant much more the next year.

I got to participate in daily activities like milking the cows, and planting and harvesting crops.

It is up to you to revive the town by planting crops, raising animals and adding features like trees, street lights, bushes, etc..

The game's main story and side quests are diversified by the many additional activities, like planting and gathering crops, fishing, brewing, cooking, or crafting.

The range of perspectives presented to the viewer is also broad: One has both feet firmly planted on the ground in Catherine Murphy's severely cropped and concentrated depictions of nonspectacular scenes, has bird - like flight in the softly glowing paintings of David Bierk, and is engulfed in Rick Shaefer's surreal magnifications of overgrown foliage and insect dynamics whereas the simple compositions of Brenda Zlamany's free - floating creatures make for visual disorientation.