Sentences with phrase «planted hybrid seed»

Not exact matches

«We have specific hybrid sunflower seeds that the farmers have to use when they plant our product, so we can get a consistent, high - quality sunflower seed,» Schuler says.
We have measured pollen flow to form hybrid seeds and the likelihood that seeds can grow and establish plants outside cultivation.
The pods of the current year's plants will be true, but the seed in those pods will produce hybrids thereafter.
«I'm a plant scientist in Dr. Patel's lab at Big State University, with significant research experience in improving efficiency of various cropping systems under a range of environmental conditions, as well as working with parent lines development and hybrid seed production.
His efforts to introduce the desirable attributes of wild, perennial Glycine species into soybean plants began at the U. of I. in 1983 and followed a path that involved thousands of experiments, the development of a hormone treatment that «rescued» immature hybrid seeds from sterility, and multiple back - crosses of hybrid plants with their «recurrent parent,» Dwight.
If plants aren't sterile - male, they can fertilise themselves and fewer of the seeds they produce will be hybrids.
In addition to showing growers and processors which hybrids could be planted at higher populations than normal, results of the study also challenge seed companies to improve CST.
At the time the main concern for plant breeders was pollen movement between different strains of crops — if a variety of sweet corn was contaminated by pollen from a popcorn variety, then the resulting hybrid offspring would produce seeds that were unusable for market purposes or for selecting new varieties.
Funding for the research was provided mainly by the United Soybean Board and partially by the Partnership for Research and Education in Plant Breeding and Genetics program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Ag Alumni Seed, AgReliant Genetics, Beck's Hybrids, ConAgraFoods, Dow AgroSciences, Indiana Crop Improvement Association and Pioneer Hi - Bred International.
IRRI is now free to seek plant breeders» rights, patents and all manner of IPRs on its breeding lines and varieties, whether conventional seeds, hybrids or GMOs.
Ask them to explore the hybrid information provided at the Ag Alumni Seed Popcorn Web site and have them identify the traits the farmers might have been trying to develop in each type of hybrid popcorn plant.
PAAVEMGMT 1.0 SmartSchools ® has taken a very unique approach to plant two trees with one seed... (redeveloped, rehabbed or rehabilitated of abandoned properties or eyesores) in any neighborhood - which can be utilized as «Hybrid Homes» or a «SmartSchools» concepts - in remedying a «Sub / culture in Crisis,» especially among young boys and young men of color.
The seed of the myths was planted by a handful of aftermarket wheels, most of them two - or three - piece «hybrids» (carbon barrels with alloy hubs and spokes), none of them tested to OEM standards for road use.
Did you know that some plants yield hybrid seeds in Disney Magical World?
You still command an army of cute little brightly coloured plant / animal hybrids as you attempt to complete your scientific mission — in this case harvesting fruit seeds from the planet's surface in order to propagate new food supplies back on your home planet of Koppai.
It's illegal to save seeds from GMO plants or to reproduce hybrid varieties with proprietary licenses.
Here you will find Tips and techniques for how to grow vegetables organically, vegetable seed varieties I recommend (both heirloom and some hybrids), timing of spring and succession plantings and much more.
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