Sentences with phrase «plants crops without»

Think of a farmer who plough his or her land and plants crops without fertiliser and all the necessary inputs of production yet expects to harvest more than those who have met the necessary inputs of maximum production... wenger out!

«No - till fallow, or planting another crop without a fallow year, is the answer for controlling blowing dust.»

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These parasites can not grow without infecting a host plant, and are responsible for some of the greatest destructions of crops in human history.

But because the fungus can't survive winter without a host plant, it's not much of a threat to Midwest crops under current conditions.

(Monsanto's patented DNA enables plants to resist the herbicide glyphosate, allowing farmers to spread the weed - killing chemical widely without damaging crops.)

For the first time, scientists have improved how a crop uses water by 25 percent without compromising yield by altering the expression of one gene that is found in all plants, as reported in Nature Communications.

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.

By overexpressing, or producing more of, the NF - YC4 gene in staple crops, the researchers can increase the protein value of plants without using transgenes, which could save time and costs in the regulatory process, Li said.

But these crops tend to have low yields and poor grain quality, says geneticist Pamela Ronald of the University of California, Davis, and breeding these plants without knowing what genes to extract is time consuming and inefficient.

That particular protein is present in all plants and animals, so it can be altered in crop species without resorting to a transgenic approach, Li said.

The strategy — which other plants might be using, too, without anyone noticing — may give us a way to boost crop yields.

The Roundup Ready Soybean is the world's No. 1 GM crop and has been planted on hundreds of millions of hectares without incident and consumed by humans and animals for a dozen years without any observable adverse effect.

With this self - contained smart garden, it's possible to grow continuous crops of microgreens, herbs, and some vegetables, without any soil or sunlight, in as little as a few weeks, and the pre-programmed lighting and hydroponic system options allow users to easily adjust the unit to the optimal spectrum of light and watering schedule for each growth stage of the plants» lives.

Late onset and early winter ending will reduce the length of growing season for crops which will complete their biological life quickly causing reduction in yields as plants will gain accelerated maturity without reaching proper height and size.

The USDA / NASS studies tracked harvested acres without differentiating between irrigated and non-irrigated acreage; it gathered data on planted vs. harvested acres for some crops but not others; it did not account for systems in which «baby vegetable» crops (usually organic) are grown in short rotations on the same plot (such as spinach, lettuce, and carrots) and thus have lower yields; and it omitted some data that would have revealed too much information about individual farmers, in cases where very few growers produce a particular crop.

Regardless of the safety of GM crops, do we want a world in which our agriculture is ruled (or continued to be ruled as in the US) by large corporations, the cultivation of only a small variety of crops planted everywhere without regard for tradition or local conditions, the continued heavy dependence on chemical inputs?