Sentences with phrase «traditional crops from»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Future crop improvement needs the genetic variation from traditional varieties and related wild species to cope with the many biotic and abiotic stresses that challenge rice production around the world.

The compositional evaluation of crops intentionally modified to express altered nutritional properties, such as GR2E Golden Rice, is intended to determine whether the composition differs significantly from its traditional counterpart aside from the intended change, and to assess the safety of the intended change and any unintended changes.

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

Our breast milk could not have evolved to be the perfect complement to all traditional diets around the world — these could range from plants, insects, game meat, grain crops, seal blubber, fish — you get the picture.

While farming methods vary, traditional manipulated «agroecosystems» generally differ from natural ecosystems in six ways: maintenance at an early successional state, monoculture, crops generally planted in rows, simplification of biodiversity, plough which exposes soil to erosion, use of genetically modified organisms and artificially selected crops meanwhile agroecology tends to minimize the human impact.

Traditional biofuels such as bioethanol are made from food crops like corn and sugarcane that require prime agricultural land — a commodity in relatively short supply.

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.

Generally, though, scientists hold that food containing GMOs are just as safe to consume as food that comes from crops modified through traditional breeding techniques.

The prevailing approach to biofuels production is to convert plant sugars from traditional food crops into ethanol using centuries - old fermentation practices.

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 StatFrom 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 Statfrom across the state provided updates on a multitude of unmanned aerial systems, or UAS, projects recently in College Station.

Mouse feeding tests show GM technology is a safer way of delivering protection of crops from insects with the Bt - protein insect than is the traditional delivery method.

They have learned that their traditional fats and oils are actually healthier than the newer expeller - pressed seed oils from soy and corn, two crops heavily subsidized by the U.S. government which keeps prices artificially low.

Truth: In Third World countries, soybeans replace traditional crops and transfer the value added of processing from the local population to multinational corporations.

Over the past few seasons the matching set has become a very classic staple, from traditional 2 - piece women's wear business suits, matching short suits, all the way to skirt and crop top sets.

Whether going out with your love bug or with your lovely lady friends, try something different than traditional red like these sassy pink satin cropped pants and jacquard sweatshirt from H&M, layered with Adam Lippes for Target duster coat.

The Crop Over summer festival is Barbados» most popular and colourful traditional harvest festival and party - goers come from near and far to sing, dance and indulge in the local food and drink.

Enjoy the beauty to the Andes, high mountains at the famous Sacred Valley of the Incas, see the farming terraces still with maize crops cultivated by modern Cuzqueños, llamas and alpacas en route for classic pictures, see the traditional Market in Pisac now run every single day, guided tour in the Inca town of Pisac at the top of the mountain, then a visit to Ollantaytambo, before we stop at Urubamba the biggest town on the valley for a short typical lunch, late at the afternoon we take a tourist train for 2 and a half hours to the nice town of Aguas Calientes the nearest place to Machupicchu, our staff from Viajeros Hotel will wait for you at the train station to take you just 4 minutes to Viajeros.

First, there's the perennial «Tau Are Too Anime» debate which always crops up, and while you can not deny that the Tau were designed with at least some Asian influence, their vehicles and armor are a far cry from anything an anime fan would remark as traditional mecha design.

The New York artist's traditional subjects are still life and the male body and, after selecting a drôle crop — her trade mark — imagination is expunged from her work.

An additional 120 EJ / yr of bioenergy from waste products (including crop residues, pulp and paper mills, and municipal solid waste) and 8 EJ / yr of traditional bioenergy are consumed in the RCP4.5.

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

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.

This is particularly true for communities such as those in the Torres Strait which rely on traditional harvest from the land and oceans, and small crops.