Sentences with phrase «widely planted crop»

Temecula Valley's most widely planted crop may be wine grapes, but it has always been an agricultural haven for ranchers, growers and artisanal producers.

Not exact matches

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.

Comparing crop pathogens, which can vary widely in virulence and impact, turns out to be remarkably international, and examining different plant strains at gene banks around the world sometimes needs to be done in person.

Crop - strangling plants are rapidly becoming immune to the most widely used agricultural herbicide, glyphosate, commonly known as Roundup.

Although relatively new, they have become widely used because they are taken up by all parts of a plant, giving comprehensive protection against crop pests.

At present, there is a debate going on as to whether genetically modified (GM) crops are safe enough and what the long - term implications to the environment might be if they become widely planted.

Transgenic crops expressing resistance to the herbicide glyphosate (GR) have been commercialized and planted widely across the U.S. for two decades.

(Monsanto's patented DNA enables plants to resist the herbicide glyphosate, allowing farmers to spread the weed - killing chemical widely without damaging crops.)

This suggests that once this special combination of GMs was assembled, the plants proved so superior as a food crop that they were carefully propagated and widely adopted, perhaps causing something of a prehistoric Green Revolution.

While corn and soy don't have close wild relatives in the United States, canola, another widely planted GM crop, does.

BABA has long been known for its protective effects against devastating plant diseases, such as potato blight, but has so far not been used widely in crop protection because of undesirable side effects.

Because genes and plant regulatory networks are distinct from one another, closely coordinated genes can be widely separated from one another on chromosomes and still work together effectively and in many crop plants (maize for instance) much of the DNA does not contain genes.

Maize is the natural focus for a Green Revolution in Africa, as it is the poor person's crop, and the most widely planted in Africa.

Increased weed and pest pressure associated with longer growing seasons and warmer winters will be an increasingly important challenge; there are already examples of earlier arrival and increased populations of some insect pests such as corn earworm.64 Furthermore, many of the most aggressive weeds, such as kudzu, benefit more than crop plants from higher atmospheric carbon dioxide, and become more resistant to herbicide control.72 Many weeds respond better than most cash crops to increasing carbon dioxide concentrations, particularly «invasive» weeds with the so - called C3 photosynthetic pathway, and with rapid and expansive growth patterns, including large allocations of below - ground biomass, such as roots.73 Research also suggests that glyphosate (for example, Roundup), the most widely - used herbicide in the United States, loses its efficacy on weeds grown at the increased carbon dioxide levels likely to occur in the coming decades.74 To date, all weed / crop competition studies where the photosynthetic pathway is the same for both species favor weed growth over crop growth as carbon dioxide is increased.72