Sentence examples for controlled shooting of from inspiring English sources
If what Defra calls "controlled shooting" of badgers is to take place this year, the six-week cull must begin in the autumn, before the badger breeding season begins.
The controlled shooting of badgers, to control the spread of bovine TB, is expected to begin in parts of Gloucestershire and Somerset in June.
He added: "The method of controlled shooting of badgers has never been tested and serious welfare concerns remain about such practices.
An independent expert panel concluded that "controlled shooting" of free-running badgers was not effective or humane, and wildlife campaigners have raised concerns that monitoring by the panel has not resumed for the second year of the cull.
Pragmatists might also bow to the wisdom of the British Veterinary Association, former cheerleaders for the cull, who recently announced they were now opposed to the controlled shooting of badgers on grounds of humaneness and recommended cage-trapping and shooting badgers.
Paice said: "Nobody knows if controlled shooting will cull 70% of badgers [the minimum required] or be humane.
After the first year of the badger cull, an independent panel of experts found "controlled shooting" was not humane.
Strigolactones, important rhizosphere signalling molecules and a class of phytohormones that control shoot architecture, are apocarotenoids of plant origin.
A new study shows an inserted retroelement in the regulatory sequences of the maize tb1 gene, which controls shoot branching, was the target of human selection during the domestication of maize from its wild relative teosinte.
Because the expression levels of the ESR2 gene were also lower in dwf7-1 mutant, it is likely that BRs take part in controlling shoot induction via regulation of the ESR2 gene.
Heavy equipment and steel implements also make it possible to trim roots, thereby stimulating root turnover; to slice through rhizomes and crowns, releasing apical dominance in underground stems; and to cultivate the surface in strips as a means of controlling shoot density.
