Sentences with phrase «plant varieties»

Changes in the weather, landscape and plant variety in these areas are unable to explain this.

For the first time this year, the show will include a display of new plant varieties being introduced for the 2006 growing season.

International agreements on plant variety protection include an exception that allows for research and breeding.

If you're mixing plant varieties, choose ones that require similar amounts of sunlight and water.

It takes seeds of unique plant varieties away from the farmers and communities who originally created, selected, protected and shared those seeds and makes them inaccessible to them.

More plant variety equals more nutrients and a healthier body.

The reason that the reduction in seed varieties is a problem is that many thousands of locally adapted plant varieties are being lost.

Check out the list below to learn about 10 common plant varieties that are known to be poisonous to birds.

He wants you to find him a strange plant variety.

Your forest friends will also reward you with shop tickets so you can buy new plant varieties to expand your garden.

Our Indonesian business supports a community farming organisation in East Java in planting a variety of crop trees on 45.5 hectares at

Grafting is increasingly used for vegetable production, for instance to boost yields by using plant varieties with more vigorous roots.

Brown researchers have compiled a detailed Indonesian climate record of the last 60,000 years, tracking telltale indicators in sedimentary cores: titanium levels (a marker for surface water runoff) and the carbon isotopes of leaf wax, a marker for plant varieties (grasses indicate dry conditions).

This garden is a recreation of a landscape: three hundred different plant varieties from Provence were used in its composition, including snails which attach themselves to grasses and shimmer in the sun.

I remember going to the local plant nursery in late spring and spending literally hours agonizing over which tomato plant varieties I should buy for the newly constructed raised bed in our backyard.

Each summer, South Haven, Mich. — the state's epicenter of highbush blueberries, the most widely planted variety in the world — plays host to the National Blueberry Festival, a 50 - year - old celebration of «the king of berries.»

Radiation exposure is just one cause of this scrambling (Shirley and others 1992, Gorbunova and Levy 1999) and at least 3,000 different mutant plant varieties created by intentional exposure to ionizing radiation are part of the existing food supply (IAEA 2008).

The Botanical Gardens are just beautiful, and the trails take walkers through the forests that are rich in rare plant varieties.

Reports that some 3000 mutant plant varieties from 170 plant species are catalogued by the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Theresa has been an active member of the Northern Plains Sustainable Agriculture Society's Farm Breeding Club, working to develop farmer - breeder partnerships to address the plant breeding and plant variety improvement needs of organic farmers.

That said, there is much about these tiny parasitic worms that remains unknown and understanding the conditions leading to their development could help scientists breed resistant plant varieties as well as guard against the emergence of even more aggressive and devastating new hybrids, conclude the researchers.

And with Tower Garden — which can grow more than 150 different crops — chefs have the freedom and advantage to grow uncommon plant varieties that give their dishes a unique flair.

Columbia Fruit plants a variety of berries including blackberries, blueberries, cranberries, cherries, boysenberries, raspberries and strawberries.

We're here at the 1,000 foot - long garden at Monticello, where tradition is being preserved by continuing to grow Thomas Jefferson's favorite plant varieties, including cayennes and chilipiquins, which Jefferson called «Texas bird peppers.»

The company has a fully - integrated supply chain from the breeding of proprietary stevia plant varieties, to growing and harvesting, extracting, and purifying into a wide range of stevia ingredients.

Companies say the innovation is needed to safeguard their investments in improved plant varieties, but an array of critics contends that it will further marginalize the world's poorest farmers and erode crop biodiversity.

There's another crucial difference from California: in Winfree's study area most farmers plant a variety of crops rather than monocultures.

In 2000, Australian farmers for the first time planted varieties of canola with resistance to acetolactate synthase - inhibiting herbicides.

In the 479th Brookhaven Lecture JÃ ¶ rg Schwender describes some of the modeling efforts that he and his collaborators use to explore the biochemical reactions of plant metabolism and predict the characteristics of high - oil plant varieties.

Grafting tomato (shown here) and other plant varieties onto more robust or well - adapted ones can help them develop more desirable traits.

Due to this diverse range of enhanced naturally existing, native biological mechanisms, PPI's biotech traits can be combined (stacked) into a single plant variety with significant, cumulative effects for agri food, non-food and bioenergy crops.

We have chosen safflower as our commercial plant variety.

Lepidoptera: Prodoxidae) mirror patterns of gene flow between host plant varieties of Joshua tree (Yucca brevifolia: Agavaceae).

ARMENIA, Colombia — The complete sequence of the 22 coffee chromosomes was announced today, in an effort to accelerate the process of selecting plant varieties that tackle both local climatic changes and the specific needs of coffee growers.

«Organic growers are also likely to use older and more nutritious plant varieties, and they take exceptional care of produce after harvest,» Marshall says.

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.

Local and international laws have firmly defined what intellectual property rights are: industrial design rights, geographical indications, trade dress, plant variety rights, patents, trademarks, and copyright; the last one covers ebooks.

Nestled in the heart of the city, Albury's four hectares of multi-award winning Botanic Gardens is home to over 1000 indigenous and exotic plant varieties.

Sea oats, sea grapes, and cabbage palms are among the many plant varieties that inhabit older dunes.

Over the last 80 years, the US has lost some 93 % of its fruit and vegetable seed diversity, and the number of edible plant varieties grown worldwide has dropped by more than 75 %, which does not bode well for the future of food security.

If the utility patent claims seek to cover naturally occurring genomic sequences, new plant variety patents may be subject to Mayo / Myriad - based rejections.

Plant varieties produced through traditional cross-breeding techniques may be protected under Plant Breeders» Rights laws.

Garden stats: A front garden featuring geometric concrete hardscaping juxtaposed with a jumble of lively and lush plant varieties.

* Correction, 14 June, 12:24 p.m.: An earlier version of this story contained an incorrect description of exceptions to plant variety protection agreements.