Sentences with phrase «wild rice crop»

Most of the United States» wild rice crop is grown in and around Minnesota, which may have something to do with the wild rice soup being on special at a restaurant on the Minnesota border.

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.

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While farmers concentrate on high - carbohydrate crops like rice and potatoes, the mix of wild plants and animals in the diets of surviving hunter - gatherers provides more protein and a bettter balance of other nutrients.

«This opens the doors for rice breeders to harness genes from the wild relatives of rice, allowing us to improve crops with traits that are preferred by farmers and consumers.

The genetic traits that allow crops to overcome most, if not all, of these stresses can frequently be found in the wild relatives of rice.

As a wild guess, I'd suggest that it has more to do with rice being one of the most subsidized crops in the U.S. (along with corn and soybeans), but that is a (long) post for another day.

Edible grains comprise the majority of global cultivated crops and provide the greatest percentage of consumed calories worldwide, in the form of corn, rice, wild rice, wheat, barley, rye, kamut, spelt, millet, oats, triticale, buckwheat, quinoa, teff, and amaranth.