Sentences with phrase «traditional crops»

That human selection of favorable traits continues, both through traditional crop breeding and through the more targeted use of genetic engineering.

As snow melts faster on the peaks from warmer temperatures, farmers, who have stuck with traditional crops, have been thrown into turmoil.

The discovery also demonstrates the importance of conserving the genetic diversity of traditional crop varieties such as Kasalath.

This in vitro study led the researchers to conclude that quinoa, kañiwa, and other traditional crops from the Peruvian Andes have potential in developing effective dietary strategies for managing type 2 diabetes and associated hypertension.

Arguably they are not just as safe as traditional crops, but safer.

Dr. Shabala and his colleagues note that recent research on salt bladders creates the exciting possibility of modifying genes in traditional crops such as wheat or rice to allow them to develop salt bladders without a major impact on their growth and yield.

From an environmentally degraded monoculture, they transformed the farm by switching to native breeds, Highland cattle and Hebridean sheep, growing traditional crops such as oats in the sheaf for winter fodder.

She added that the study led researchers to conclude that quinoa, kañiwa (quinoa's cousin) and other traditional crops from the Peruvian Andes have potential in helping researchers to develop effective dietary strategies for managing Type 2 diabetes and associated hypertension.

Luigi Guarino of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, a co-author of the paper, agreed: «Traditional crop varieties and their wild relatives found in one small part of the world could potentially be of use all over the world.

Traditional crop improvement seeks broadly adapted genotypes to give best average performance under a standard management regime across the entire production region, with some subsequent manipulation of management regionally in response to average local environmental conditions.

COLLEGE STATION — From traditional crop production to livestock, Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientists from across the state provided updates on a multitude of unmanned aerial systems, or UAS, projects recently in College Station.

In a blinding flash of fuss, London's galleries and museums simultaneously launched their autumn events, greeted by the now traditional crop of seasonal arts features declaring the British to be a nation in love with modern art.

In 2002, Sister Yolanda Cerón, a supporter of Law 70 and of the preservation of traditional crops along the Patia River, was also murdered.

A feature review, to be published on December 16th in the Cell Press journal Trends in Plant Science, points the way to intensifying agriculture sustainably by fixing weaknesses that have sprung up quite by accident in the process of traditional crop breeding over the course of thousands of years.

Monsanto failed to tell them that the crop was very susceptible to bollworms, a virulent parasite, and the GM cotton required twice the amount of water as traditional crops.

Three years on from a devastating disease incursion, diversifying away from traditional crops could save a Queensland melon and pumpkin farm.

For example, plant breeders working to develop crops that can resist pests and diseases or higher temperatures often look to the broad range of plants and traditional crops in primary regions of diversity as sources of useful traits for crop improvement.

«Tomatoes of the same quality as normal, but using only half the water: Some farmers have already expressed their interested in these water - sustainable products that can produce more compound health benefits than traditional crops.»

CAM plants can flourish here by conserving water more effectively than traditional crops — they capture carbon dioxide from the air at night and convert it to malate, which fuels photosynthesis during the day.

«Concerns about climate change and energy security are driving an aggressive expansion of bioenergy crop production and many of these plant species emit more isoprene than the traditional crops they are replacing,» the paper states.

Crop failures, water scarcity and the migration of traditional crops are damaging rural livelihoods.

The standard fiber of world history, America's traditional crop, hemp, could provide our textiles, paper and be the premier source for cellulose.

In fact, there are many constraints in the traditional crop insurance especially due to moral hazard and asymmetric information.

It's time to demand that the government be responsible to its citizens and enact mandatory labeling of GMOs instead of pretending that GMO crops are the same as traditional crops.