Sentences with phrase «resistant crop»

The cassava is a drought - resistant crop that is recently being used more as an adaptation to the current dry lands.

Professor Parry said developed countries needed to help the most affected regions, which include sub-Saharan Africa and major Asian river deltas with improved technology for irrigation, drought - resistant crop strains and building techniques.

Strategies include drought resistant crop varieties that can withstand shifting climate conditions, more efficient irrigation technologies and improved crop storage.

Plus Hemp is a very resistant crop that does not need those weird chemicals used in most crops these days.

But the type of science that instead aims to fill gaps in our understanding of the world — known as «basic» or «foundational» research — doesn't focus on specific applications, like a disease cure or a drought - resistant crop, so no one can predict the real - world impact of any individual line of inquiry.

There are 219 types, so breeding a resistant crop is complex.

His group has generated the first disease resistant crop plant by using the TALEN technology.

When GE wheat appeared on an Oregon farm in 2013, USDA launched an investigation that linked the herbicide - resistant crop to agricultural chemical giant Monsanto.

Originally from Europe, diamondback moths have quite the rap sheet: They're invasive, insecticide - resistant crop pests.

In the U.S. weedy rice is increasingly combatted by growing herbicide resistant crop strains, Olsen says.

The find might eventually help scientists create more drought - resistant crop plants, the researchers report in the March 17 Science.

There is a need for both innovative, durable disease resistance genes ad smart strategies for the deployment of resistant crop varieties.

The first genetically engineered pest - resistant crop on the market was a potato whose genes were complemented by those of Bacillus thuringiensis.

To prevent this agricultural crisis, Nelson estimates, would require an investment of at least $ 7 billion per year in the most affected countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America for increased agricultural research into, for example, drought - resistant crop varieties.

Adaptation is about floating houses, drought resistant crops and greener -LSB-...]

There's a whole range of objections to GM food, ranging from the health fears through to the attitude that GM has potential when focused on real food supply issues like developing drought - resistant crops, but not under the control of a handful of corporations that could come to control our food supply.

These chemicals normally kill crops as well as weed, so resistant crops would permit farmers to ignore weeds growing among their crops early in the season, as they can use an effective herbicide later in the year.

To avoid digging up the soil to remove weeds, farmers spray the herbicide glyphosate, best known as Roundup, in conjunction with glyphosate - resistant crops.

For example, herbicide - resistant crops engineered to withstand weed killers like glyphosate breed with native vegetation to create «super weeds» that can no longer be controlled with herbicide.

For example, if you're a plant geneticist and you're against the widespread use of pesticides, then you shouldn't apply for a postdoc or a job with Monsanto, a company that has a lot of solid projects in its pipeline but also produces Roundup pesticide resistant crops.

«Cultivating Hopi corn and other traditional, drought - resistant crops could become crucial for human survival in other places impacted by climate change.»

Pest control is also critical, so pest - resistant crops will be essential.

And GM promises more: creating drought - resistant crops that will thrive in the warmer climates of the future, for instance.

As well as providing protection from the increasingly unpredictable weather, the premiums could also be a powerful way to get poor people to adapt to climate change by encouraging them to invest in measures like drought - resistant crops.

When evidence emerged that monarch butterflies were losing the milkweed they depend on due to the spread of herbicide - resistant crops in the United States, people across the country took action, planting milkweed in their own gardens.

Herbicide - and pest - resistant crops.

This association was only evident during the initial years of the adoption of herbicide - resistant crops (1994 - 2003), however, when glyphosate use was increasing most quickly.

Like other proponents of gene drive research, Kuiken contends that they could help control disease, remove invasive species, and create pest - resistant crops.

The loss of breeding habitat, especially milkweed, due to the increased use of genetically modified herbicide - resistant crops, is an important factor influencing the decline of monarchs in the eastern United States.

Promising everything from algae - derived petroleum to personalized medicine to drought - resistant crops, synthetic biology - or synbio - is rapidly sprouting disruptive new technologies in energy, healthcare, specialty chemicals, and agriculture...

Some things we might do if we got desperate enough: scrub greenhouse gasses from the atmosphere technologically, geo - engineering to create cooling effects to offset greenhouse heating, [SLIDE 42] lots of adaptation policies, cropping patterns, heat drought and salt - resistant crops, strengthen public health and environmental engineering defenses against tropical disease, new water projects for flood control and drought management, dyke storm surge barriers, avoiding further development on flood plains in near sea level.

Late last month, the U.S. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service said grain tests and interviews with several hundred farmers found no other instances of glyphosate resistant crops.

«The more we understand the molecular mechanisms involved in the infection process and in plant resistance, the more effective we're going to be in breeding resistant crops,» said Martin.

The loss of milkweed plants due to extensive herbicide use and changes in farming practices, such as the widespread adoption of herbicide - resistant crops, has been identified as a major contributing factor of monarch's decline in the eastern U.S. Disease, climate change, widespread insecticide use, and loss or degradation of nectar - rich habitat may also be contributing to declines.

That's the major pesticide sprayed on a lot of these Roundup resistant crops, basically allows them to not have to do any weeding at all, because it kills everything except the plant, i.e. kills the weed and it's the chelator.

By avoiding chemical pesticides, organic agriculture ensures greater biodiversity, naturally disease resistant crops, and drinking water free of pesticide residues.

However, many varieties of GMO soy are more protein - dense and have allowed for improved yields and more resistant crops at cheaper prices, contributing to the effort to eradicate world hunger, especially in areas of famine.

Seed companies like Syngenta and Monsanto develop more drought resistant crops.

Actions could range from developing drought - resistant crops to eliminating federal insurance and other subsidies that have long encouraged coastal development.

Most discussions about adapting to inevitable climate change in a world with rising concentrations of greenhouse gases have focused on seawalls, drought - resistant crops and the like.

Bangladesh's Farmers Already Switching to Climate - Resistant Crops The effects of climate change may seem distant for many TreeHugger readers (they aren't, but that's another story...), but for farmers in Bangladesh they are very much immediate — and they are already taking action to adapt, switching to climate - resistant varieties of rice, wheat, and other staple crops.

Without insect - resistant crops, farmers spray more broad - spectrum insecticides, which do some collateral damage to surrounding food webs.

Without herbicide - resistant crops, farmers spray less glyphosate, which slows the spread of glyphosate - resistant weeds and perhaps leads to healthier soil biota.

Aluminum - resistant crops!

The Central Government also plans to focus on promoting water conservation through the use of drip irrigation, among other efforts, and by developing drought - resistant crops, along with mitigating methane emissions from rice production and controlling farm waste through the creation of large - scale biogas digesters.

Climate - linked adaptation involves steps like switching to more drought - resistant crops and other ways of coping with a warmer world.

Russia's renamed N. I. Vavilov Institute of Plant Genetic Resources may play a role in helping develop new strains of more heat - and drought - resistant crops.

Countries such as Britain need to focus on helping nations in the developing world cope with the predicted impacts, by helping them to introduce irrigation and water management technology, drought resistant crops and new building techniques.

Adaptation: Farmers are opting to plant more drought - resistant crops, and pastoralists have even opted for herds of camels or goats, as opposed to cattle, in order to better manage drought - associated risks.

For instance, although biological sciences have produced some drought resistant crops, for other crops no drought resistant strains have yet been developed.