Sentence examples for altered seed from inspiring English sources

In addition to these frequent mutant features, a number of other mutant phenotypes with altered agronomic traits (such as number of tillers, lodging, early senescence, altered seed size, and flowering time) were also observed.

Nestle has stopped buying any grain from genetically altered seed for its European operations.

Moreover, we illustrate how these evolutionary conserved TFs can be used to engineer new crops with altered seed compositions and point out the current limitations.

Last month, Frito-Lay Inc. told farmers that supply it to stop using genetically altered seed for corn, and some other companies are spinning off their divisions that make genetically altered products.

However, both species altered seed handling behavior in response to direct predation cues by leaving more seeds available in the seed pool, though they responded to different predator cues.

This year, the fourth year that genetically altered seed has been on the market, some 45 million acres of American farmland have been planted with biotech crops, most of it corn, soybeans, cotton and potatoes that have been engineered to either produce their own pesticides or withstand herbicides.

Farmers have bought up the altered seeds, which can save them time and boost productivity.

Novartis, the parent of Gerber, remains one of the leading producers of genetically altered seeds.

Scientifically altered seeds already account for huge parts of the United States cotton, soybean and corn crops.

Gerber officials say Novartis, its Switzerland-based parent and the maker of genetically altered seeds, understood the subsidiary's position.

Monsanto's biotechnology traits are used in nearly all the genetically altered seeds now on the United States market.