Sentences with phrase «produce hybrid seeds»

[12] One recent study even suggests that if yield is the objective then there's no need for the headaches involved in producing hybrid seeds.

Producing hybrid seed is a scientific advancement of the last century.

Not exact matches

Our key target is to produce hybrid rice with consistently high - yield heterosis (hybrid vigor), good grain quality, tolerance to key environmental stresses, multiple resistances to insect pests and diseases, and high seed production yield.

Our research into hybrid rice now focuses on producing hybrid rice with consistently high - yield heterosis (hybrid vigor), good grain quality, tolerance to key environmental stresses, multiple resistances to insect pests and diseases, and high seed production yield.

The pods of the current year's plants will be true, but the seed in those pods will produce hybrids thereafter.

If plants aren't sterile - male, they can fertilise themselves and fewer of the seeds they produce will be hybrids.

Tenera seeds, a hybrid of pisifera and dura, produce a nice thin shell and copious oil.

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.

If you've listened recently to public radio, you may have heard the following promotional announcement on Marketplace, produced by American Public Media: «Marketplace is supported by Monsanto, committed to sustainable agriculture; creating hybrid and biotech seeds designed to increase crop yields and conserve natural resources.»