Sentences with phrase «with less fertilizer»

They can also grow on marginal lands with less fertilizer and water, making it less likely they will compete with food production.

He managed to hack bacteria so they would perform a vital service for young rice plants, helping them utilize nitrogen and grow more efficiently with less fertilizer.

Not exact matches

Teaming up with fellow top employer Monsanto, Novozymes» scientists are developing microbial seed treatments that will yield more corn and soybeans, ideally with less chemical fertilizers, pesticides, or water.

A new study suggests that in carbon - dioxide - rich environments, plants given the nitrate fertilizers widely used today will grow slower and make less protein than plants fertilized with ammonium.

Tomatoes grown with organic mulch and less chemical fertilizer (right) do better than those raised under more conventional conditions.

«higher quality diets were associated with greater food waste but less waste of cropland; as well as greater waste of irrigation water and pesticides, but not fertilizer.»

The most recent breakthrough was made by a team of British and American biologists who report they've successfully infused tobacco plants with bacterial genes — a first step towards engineering crops that grow faster, offer higher yields and use less fertilizers.

Unfortunately leafy greens (and I eat tons of them) and other magnesium rich foods have been becoming less and less rich in magnesium over the years, as the soil becomes depleted by chemical fertilizers, and overloaded with pesticides and more.

But as successive technological innovations — the internal combustion engine, electric motors, chemical fertilizer — came on the scene, a curious thing happened: farmers with more education began outperforming those with less.

Contact dermatitis, a less frequent problem, can occur when dogs with hypersensitivities to irritants come into contact with substances in household products, plants or fertilizers.

I was at Aldo Leopold's «Shack» in Baraboo, Wis.; at the World Food Prize Foundation conference in Des Moines; and then out in the fields of Ames, Iowa, where a sustainable - agriculture team at Iowa State University is showing how to grow bountiful crops of soybeans and corn with far less fertilizer and pesticide than is used in the standard industrial - style pattern of planting.

If you get 38 % more growth with the same fertilizer the nitrogen content of the plant will be less.

well that has a lot to do with inorganic fertilizer application and intensive farming techniques as well as using plant varieties with less natural variation too!

Replacing lawns with California natives or Mediterranean plants has a host of benefits beyond water savings: colorful blooms that attract birds and pollinators; ease of maintenance; and less need for fertilizers and pesticides.

Growing more food on less land with fewer environmental impacts will require better seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, and things such as vertical greenhouses and laboratory meat that make us less dependent on land and water to grow food.

Along with «exponentially higher» yields, the CropBox promises that their complete growing system also uses 90 % less water and 80 % less fertilizer than conventional agriculture does.