Sentence examples for breed plants from inspiring English sources

It also did well in Latin America with Tang, a sweet powdered drink with added nutrients, marketing it to children for the taste and mothers for its nutritional value.It is also possible to breed plants that contain more nutrients.

In addition to direct help for small farms, donors should provide more help for the research and development needed to identify new high-yielding seed varieties, especially to breed plants that can withstand temporary flooding, excess nitrogen, salty soils, crop pests, and other challenges to sustainable food production.

One way to increase albedo is to selectively breed plants with thicker waxy layers, says Ridgwell.

From the beginning of her career, Jedryczka wanted to breed plants that could resist fungal attacks.

Understanding the regulation of rice transcriptome in response to Fe deficiency and excess could provide bases for developing strategies to breed plants tolerant to Fe deficiency as well as excess Fe.

Perhaps we shouldn't be surprised that giant agribusiness companies have no interest in the vast varieties and diverse ways people breed plants.

Traditional breeding can also be used in order to breed plant genotypes with altered composition/degradability, as demonstrated for wheat (Ali et al. 2012a).

Due to the difficulty, efforts of evaluating the safety of transgenic crops has been geared toward assessing the substantial equivalence between transgenic plants and wildtype or conventionally bred plants, like plants from MAB breeding [ 10].

The danger of this cross-breeding is that the genetic diversity of selectively bred plants is more limited, and indoor growing often results in plants changing the content and quantity of its natural compounds.

It's easy to see why the commercial growers bred plants that would stand up straight and whose frilly blooms were less likely to be damaged in transit.

However the authors suggest this is not the fault of the GM crops per se (their italics), but farm management (such as the intensive use of certain chemicals), and could also have happened with conventionally bred plants.