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Extremes in local and regional weather patterns and climate variability have disrupted agricultural production in the past; climate - related temperature rise is expected to increasingly affect crop yields in many regions of the world.

Abstract Higher transpiration efficiency (TE) has been proposed as a mechanism to increase crop yields in dry environments where water availability usually limits yield.

Performance Plants is involved in gene discovery, trait development & commercialization of technologies for seeds to protect and enhance yields in all major crops globally.

Using our proprietary technology platform, Mascoma provides bioengineered yeasts and other microorganisms proven to reduce costs and improve yields in the production of renewable fuels and chemicals.

Insect damage reduces yields in rice and causes farmers to use insecticides that are harmful to the environment and human health.

Beyond producing hydrogen and carbon - rich fuels in a sustainable way, he has demonstrated that equipping the system with a different metabolically altered bacterium can produce nitrogen - based fertilizer right in the soil, an approach that would increase crops yields in areas where conventional fertilizers are not readily available.

Crop yields in the U.S. will likely suffer as well.

The team say they have made other genetic alterations that also boost yields in greenhouse tests, though they are not yet ready to divulge details.

As Moore pointed out, three key areas of uncertainty make it difficult to predict the future of crop yields in Europe.

The team say they have made other genetic alterations that also boost yields in greenhouse tests, although they are keeping the details to themselves for the moment.

«Hand - harvest labor - hours were three times greater in 2011 than in 2012 due to heavier fruit set and higher yields in 2011,» the researchers explained.

The mutation dramatically increases tomato yields in bush tomatoes, and Lippman and his team, led by postdoctoral researcher Ke Jiang, set out to understand the mechanism behind this remarkable result.

«Genetic discovery points to bigger yields in tomato, other flowering food plants.»

Here, at the annual meeting of AAAS (which publishes ScienceNOW), Watt explains to Kerry Klein that a greater understanding of root systems could lead to increased crop yields in a wide diversity of climates.

Pearce strongly criticises the «green revolution», which has dramatically increased yields in some parts of the world through planting of high - input, dwarf varieties of wheat and rice.

«Although wheat yields in the UK and World increased dramatically in the latter half of the twentieth century, increases this century have proved elusive.

The new study suggests a decline of between 10 and 15 per cent in grain yields in Africa, tropical Latin America and much of India and Southeast Asia, as well as a substantial increase in famine.

The FRO2 gene is common to all plants, so boosting its expression in food crops or finding variants that thrive in poor soils could be important for increasing crop yields in the face of population growth and global warming's threats to arable land.

* A study published in Nature Climate Change earlier this month suggests that if the UK increased farm yields in line with what experts believe is possible, and turned spared land into forest and wetland, the resulting carbon «sink» could balance out the nation's agricultural emissions by 2050 — in line with government targets.

«Improving crop yields in a world of extreme weather events.»

Breaking Bad Chemistry teacher - turned - methamphetamine maker Walter freaks out when the input / output yields in his illicit operation don't add up, leaving him and his assistant racing through the possible reasons for this experimental error: Evaporation?

So do the newest farm implements, like combines that allow farmers to map crop yields in precise detail.

He estimates that increased rice yields in India — the result of introducing new strains — are worth about $ 75 million a year.

They flower and set seed before summer drought and heat stress, which can suppress yields in longer season varieties.

As a result, they often evolve valuable traits that plant breeders could use to create varieties able to resist pests or maintain yields in the face of global warming.

In predicting how climate will affect irrigated crop yields in the future, the researchers also consider factors such as population and economic growth, as well as competing demands for water from various socioeconomic sectors, which are themselves projected to change as the climate warms.

Given the likelihood that heat waves and droughts are increasing, she says, no one should count on better yields in years to come.

In short, economist R. Quentin Grafton at The Australian National University in Canberra and his colleagues found that, even for species that take decades to recover, reducing fishing yields in the short term boosts fishing profits in the long run.

Corn hybrids with improved tolerance to crowding stress, grown at higher plant populations than their predecessors, have been a driver of rising field corn yields in recent decades.

It could also greatly improve yields in existing corn - growing regions of the world where food security remains a major problem.

It is already known that El Niño and its opposite phase, La Niña, have a clear effect on corn, soy, rice, and wheat yields in many areas across South Asia, Latin America and southern Africa.

«Why would there be higher yields in glyphosate - treated plants when there were no weeds in the plots?»

In agriculture, one of its first offerings was BST a genetically engineered hormone that raises milk yields in cows.

While many recent studies have documented that agricultural producers must significantly increase yields in order to meet the food, feed, and fuel demands of a growing population, few have given practical solutions on how to do this.

This study indicates that corn yields in Illinois can be increased by about 28 percent using commercially available technologies and hybrids.

That's in contrast to the impact of a gene on chromosome 20 that increased protein concentration but also significantly decreased yields in soybean varieties.

Water scarcity will affect most of Asia, and higher temperatures will lower rice yields in some areas by shortening the growing season.

«The glaciers, particularly in the Himalayas, may disappear and cause some of the major rivers to become much more variable, which will have negative effects on yields in south Asia,» Nelson notes.

Research published in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science in August noted that corn, soybean and cotton yields in the U.S. will drop precipitously because of additional days where the temperature is above 30 degrees Celsius.

Real estate lawyer Adam Leitman Bailey, who represents both landlords and tenants, said that the Times article «only validates and confirms the massive amount of power REBNY yields in influencing legislation.»

OMAHA, Nebraska (Reuters)- The most extensive drought in five decades has left corn plants withered and dying, and crop yields in the largest producing states will be much lower than experts have forecast, scouts said on Friday as they completed a U.S. Midwest crop tour.

On the other hand, organic crop yields in developing countries may be considerably higher than the national average, which has implications on organic matter return and carbon sinks102.

The second and third year show that fresh fruit yields in the organic system were 29 percent (year two) and 11.3 percent (year three) higher in the organic system than the non-organic system.

We discuss future opportunities to improve wheat yields in variable rainfed environments in the light of climate change.

In fact, many multiple cropping systems, such as those developed by smallholders and subsistence farmers, even show higher yields in terms of total harvest per unit area.

Global yields in Organic Agriculture are at most 20 % lower than in conventional agriculture in specific cases.

This was despite higher yields in Australia, South Africa, Chile and Argentina.

However yields in the Southern interior valleys from Fresno to Bakersfield were down by 3 to 7 %.

Beet sugar yields in the UK have improved by more than 25 % in the last ten years.

A recent report has shown that IRRI's rice breeding work has increased rice yields in the Philippines and is delivering $ 204 million per year to the country and has increased farmers» returns by US$ 52 a hectare.