Sentences with phrase «wild varieties»

Wild varieties of mustard illustrate the huge diversity and variability of chemicals in plants.

Despite eating a wide and wild variety of foods on the fast breaking day, I felt fine and suffered no ill effects.

This little - studied gene is prevalent in wild varieties of tomatoes but is mutated in most commercial varieties, rendering them vulnerable to continuous illumination, the team notes.

By providing a backup of wild varieties for their domesticated crop cousins, seed banks provide insurance in the case of a devastating blow to yields.

Germination problems often occur in pepper seeds with a particularly tough seed coat, such as wild varieties like the chiltepin.

Their future survival depends on a broader gene pool which includes not only earlier cultivars, but also material from wild varieties and the closest relatives of a species.

Agriculture has been greatly dependent upon wild varieties for genes that increase productivity, give resistance to disease and enable varieties to be produced that can withstand drought, cold and other extremes of weather.

A fantastic wild variety which is the mother of all baccatum peppers.

Stone fruits such as plums and cherries make fantastic wines, especially wilder varieties, as they have a bit of bite to them.

On the other, a push to save wild varieties of coffee, and the pursuit of beautiful microlots and unique tastes by true coffee lovers.

I love my walks as I get to visit a mini-forest in our neighbourhood which has various wild varieties of flowers.

«It's a big drag,» said Susan McCouch, a professor of plant breeding and genetics at Cornell University who specializes in finding wild varieties of rice for breeding.

But there are certain wild varieties of crops that pollinate in the wee hours of the morning, before sunrise.

Researchers at Cornell University in New York have crossed wild varieties of hairy potatoes with commercial high - yielding varieties.

Research on the ability of the GM salmon to outcompete wild varieties has been inconclusive, but regulators decided that an escape from the AquaBounty facilities is unlikely.

Recent analysis of Neanderthal tooth plaque revealed that they consumed wild varieties of peas and fava beans.

The two here probably began their existence as wild varieties that were later domesticated.

As for dioxins, PCBs, and fire retardants, they show up in wild varieties as well, but the concentrations are vastly different.

The modern, domesticated chickpea has an extreme lack of genetic diversity, leaving it vulnerable to climate change, prompting scientists to seek out wild varieties for crossbreeding programmes.

As I mentioned in the previous installment, I went to Mexico in fall, 2006, to collect chiltepíns and other wild varieties of chile pepper for my Ph.D. research on the domestication of C. annuum.

May 6, 2013 — Our galaxy is teeming with a wild variety of planets.

There, in the great valley of Mexico, oblivious to the momentous events a world away, the Aztecs domesticated the hot fruits from a wild variety, cooking them with turkeys, using them in ceremonies, and decorating their bowls with pod designs.

Besides sporting a butterfly lower back tattoo and misdemeanor criminal record, the wild variety have much more to offer such as:

I once ate the wild variety and now won't eat anything else, but the wild ones are so hard to get by).

Using cultivated and wild varieties, we are developing new sugarcane varieties with increased yield, sugar content and smut resistance.

For his North African - inspired herb jam, Russ Moore, the chef at Oakland's Camino, uses a wild variety of herbs and greens to give the spread the most complex flavor profile possible — but also uses up all the vegetables in his walk - in fridge and any herbs and vegetables taking over his garden.

The International Rice Genebank at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) holds in trust 126,782 (as of January 2015) types of rice that include modern, traditional, and wild varieties.

Generally speaking, the wild varieties (spherical «tepins») are called chiltepins and the domesticated varieties (oblong «piquíns») are called piquíns or pequins, but in Texas the wild varieties are called chilipiquíns.

The Amazon basin was the center of origin for the chinense species, but the story of the spread of the wild varieties and their eventual domestication is still not clear.

The strongest dormancy appears in wild varieties, such as chiltepins, which overwinter well.

Generally speaking, the wild varieties (spherical «tepins») are called chiltepins and the domesticated varieties (oblong «piquins») are called piquins or pequins, but in Texas the wild varieties are called chilipiquins.

In all cases of domestication, the cultivated forms tend to develop fruits larger than the wild varieties; botanists are not certain whether this trait is the result of better cultural techniques or the natural tendency for humans to pick the largest fruits, which contain next years» seed.

Curiously, there are not as many names for the wild varieties as there are for some other species.

«Praetermissum» means «passed over» in Latin, and it's the species name of a wild variety, but could be used with a genus name to mean a neglected variety.

Some argue that this is why some peppers are pendant while others are erect — years and years of successive breeding where the biggest pods were chosen, created varieties with pods that were too large to grow erect, as most of the wild varieties do.

It's an excellent food but you want to stay away from farmed fish and eat the wild variety instead.

It is unknown what precipitated its domestication, because the edible portion of the wild variety is too small and hard to be eaten directly, as each kernel is enclosed in a very hard bi-valve shell.

This pretty much guarantees all sorts of wild varieties.

For example, wild varieties could help control plant pollination to adapt to rising temperatures.

In the Middle East, Europe and China, where wheat is believed to originate, the number of wild varieties is countless.

The wild varieties are out there, said Fowler.

Wild varieties, in contrast, «have dark green shoulders, and that makes it harder to determine the right time to harvest,» says Ann Powell, a plant scientist at the University of California, Davis.

Today nearly all the salmon on grocery shelves is farmed, and the population of the wild variety is four to five times lower than it was before the Industrial Revolution.

Although domesticated by the indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica some 2000 years ago, the wild variety was an important resource for many Native American peoples, not just for its meat and eggs, but also for feathers, bones and spurs, which were used to make clothing, spoons, musical instruments, arrow tips and more.

The wild variety is usually available from April through June.

For instance, would you ever imagine that rough sandstone could reveal itself in such a wild variety of colors?

They also have artificial coloring added to make the meat look as pink as the wild variety.

Omega - 3 fatty acids, in which wild salmon is particularly rich (farmed salmon also contains omega - 3s, though less than the wild varieties), are crucial for healthy brain development, which occurs throughout pregnancy.