Sentences with phrase «plant cultivars»

Ligularia «Britt - Marie Crawford» (leopard plant cultivar) is one of the most handsome plants of the Shade Border, a tree - lined walk in a quiet corner of the garden.

Not exact matches

Then they can use classical plant breeding or genetic engineering to transfer those genes into desired cultivars.

To compete with the cheap Gros Michel from Ecuador, the infested soils of Central America were planted with resistant Cavendish cultivars.

Each of these plants falls under the genus Allium; the actual progenitor of onions is difficult to identify because its cultivars are sterile.

New Mexico's chile growers plant most of the state's chile acreage to cultivars developed at NMSU or to cultivars that have N M S U cultivars in their pedigrees.

This cultivar incorporates the plant and fruit characteris - tics, determined by the paprika processors, as an ideal paprika - type chile.

«NuMex Primavera» is an open - pollinated cultivar that was developed using a pedigree breeding method that included several generations of hybridizations, selfing, and repeated single plant selection (Bosland et al., 1998).

The plant heights and widths are much greater than other habanero cultivars.

The NMSU Holiday Ornamental cultivars were developed for the potted plant and nursery industries.

I want to identify the exact cultivar so I can locate seeds to grow the plant myself.

New Mexico growers were surveyed in 1998, and 50 % of their chile pepper acreage was planted with an NMSU cultivar (Skaggs, 2000).

Plant breeders selectively develop cultivars with varying degrees of heat.

As a plant pathologist with USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Rice Research Unit in Beaumont, Texas, Toni Marchetti oversaw a new program in 1972 to develop new cultivars that better resisted costly diseases like rice blast.

Today, the adoption of high - yielding, uniform cultivars and varieties has led to a considerable reduction in the number of plants and animals used in agriculture.

Through the years as vineyard practices developed, cultivars were planted in soil and at slopes best suited to them.

Effects of planting date, soil water at planting, and cultivar phenology.

Having pinpointed Dt2 will enable Ma and his researchers to use natural plant breeding methods to develop a variety of semi-determinate cultivars.

For northern soybean producers, semideterminate soybean plants could represent a «Goldilocks» cultivar, a «just right» alternative between the two.

Researchers from Purdue University and the University of Nebraska - Lincoln have discovered a soybean gene whose mutation affects plant stem growth, a finding that could lead to the development of improved soybean cultivars for the northern United States.

After identifying the gene, he inserted it into indeterminate cultivars to confirm that it caused the plants to become semideterminate.

Semideterminate soybean plants — mid-size plants that continue vegetative growth even after flowering — can produce as many or more pods than current northern cultivars but do not grow as tall.

«When you try to adapt cultivars to many different environments, you end up with plants that are not great anywhere,» says de Leon.

A paper published in The Plant Cell reports a breakthrough in transformation technology that greatly expands the range of cultivars and species that can be transformed.

Coffee farms the world over are still planting susceptible cultivars that increasingly require pesticides to fend off disease.

Soybean cultivars are often divided into two groups: indeterminate - tall plants whose main stem continues to grow after flowering - and determinate - shorter, bushier plants whose main stem halts growth when blossoms begin to form.

«This means we may be able to use GPR to more quickly determine the suitability of various cultivars in different soil conditions so we can assess which ones might be the best to plant under those conditions to help ensure the most positive crop yield and quality.»

With multiyear field studies, Xue identified plant traits related to drought tolerance, which can be used by breeders to develop drought - tolerant wheat cultivars and geneticists to screen molecular markers and speed the breeding process.

cultivar Short for cultivated variety, such plants have been bred to exhibit particular prized traits.

If the plants were bred intentionally, they are referred to as cultivated varieties, or cultivars.

Canola oil comes from the canola plant — a cultivar of rapeseed — and you may have seen the bright yellow flowers in farmers» fields if you've driven through rural North America.

In addition, cultivars have been developed to enhance certain aspects of the fruit or the plant's hardiness against cold or pests.

Lavender should be placed in a sunny spot, in cultivar hedges with a spacing of one to three feet (30 - 100 cm) between each plant.

Heirloom plant: also known as heirloom variety or heritage fruit / vegetable is an old cultivar that is still maintained by gardeners and farmers particularly in isolated or ethnic communities.

It turns out that pumpkin, a cultivar of the squash plant, is good for more than the spellbinding toothy - grinned jack - o - lantern that scares unsuspecting trick - or - treaters on your front porch stoop.

Yes, I hear more farmers are planting lower gluten cultivars of wheat and other grains.

Canola oil is made from a cultivar of the rapeseed plant.

Solanum capsicastrum (winter cherry or false Jerusalem cherry) has been considered a different species, but now it is mostly defined as only a variant cultivar; the leaves are greyish green and the berries are brighter; it may be somewhat less toxic than traditional Jerusalem cherry, but this often depends on the individual plant

It's made from a cultivar of the rapeseed plant.

Because many of the vineyards in the Santa Rita Hills AVA have been planted only in the last 20 years, they use modern trellising and clones — or cultivars — of certain premier wine grapes.

Seasonal forecasts support strategic decisions regarding crop cultivar selection and intended acreage for planting.

Marijuana and hemp both come from the same species of plant, Cannabis sativa L., but from different varieties or cultivars.

Centuries of selective breeding has produced cannabis plants for specific uses, including drug strains and hemp cultivars for fiber and seed production.

Critics of the DEA policy point out that cannabis cultivars used to produce industrial hemp have relatively low concentrations of THC relative to plants grown to produce marijuana.

Alternatively, they may have a short lead time and long consequences, as with building individual houses, or a long lead time but short consequences, as with developing a new cultivar of wheat for planting.

Decisions may have a short lead time and short consequence period, such as the choice of which existing wheat cultivar to plant, a decision that can be adjusted every year.

While the plants themselves are easy to grow and adaptable, extensive hybridisation has led to a variety of species, cultivars and hybrids and nomenclature is a minefield.