Sentences with phrase «testing wheat crops»

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Since its 2013 demonstration as a genome editing tool in Arabidopsis and tobacco — two widely used laboratory plants — CRISPR has been road - tested in crops, including wheat, rice, soybeans, potatoes, sorghum, oranges and tomatoes.

The Great Plains and the Midwestern part of the United States have experienced extremely cold temperatures during the early spring as that is causing some concerns on crop yields as I do think wheat prices could test the $ 5 level possibly in next week's trade.

After reading new research about the issue of «crop desiccation» done by using glyphosate on wheat and other grains just prior to harvest, Tropical Traditions decided to first test some commercial wheat products with wheat grown in Montana, North Dakota, and Canada.

Sarah Feakins» recent work has tested the drought response of wheat crops and surveyed the diversity of tropical forest ecosystems.

Using computer - generated test crops of dwarf wheat and soybeans, a team led by Federico Maggi at the University of Sydney in Australia simulated how these plants take up nutrients from human...

The obstacle to the other crops being adopted is that there just hasn't been enough plant breeding done to sufficiently improve perennial wheat and sorghum and test them in farmers» fields.

In the study, the researchers systematically tested 30 different wheat crop models against field experiments in which growing season mean temperatures ranged from 15 °C to 26 °C.

Researchers will initially use it to test GM wheat with resistance to powdery mildew, a fungal disease, but they could ultimately plant other crops such as potatoes.

The attack damaged fences and some of the «buffer zone» crops surrounding the experimental wheat, but damaged «less than 0.1 %» of the test crop, says Darren Hughes, head of communications at Rothamsted.

PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State University researchers have tested all the university's wheat varieties, as well as others around the Northwest, and found none with the genetically modified herbicide resistance discovered in an Oregon crop this spring.

After reading new research about the issue of «crop desiccation» done by using glyphosate on wheat and other grains just prior to harvest, Tropical Traditions decided to first test some commercial wheat products with wheat grown in Montana, North Dakota, and Canada.

In forecasting the effect on wheat production — one of the world's most important staple crops — the researchers tested 30 computer models against field experiments to establish the most likely scenario.

Where CO2 is relevant is in explaining much of growth in crop yields — I have just done a test using a quadratic function on CO2, temperature, and rainfall which produces an amazingly accurate hindcast of wheat yields in Moree NSW 1965 - 1999 using just those 3 variables.