Sentence examples for crop grasses from inspiring English sources

Ironically, most crop grasses were originally successful weeds.

Alcoholic beverages are distilled from other crop grasses: barley provides beer malt, rice is used in the production of sake, and corn for bourbon.

Up to 70 percent of the world's agricultural land is given to crop grasses, and more than 50 percent of the world's calories come from grasses, particularly the cereals.

Increasingly, exploring the phylogenetic context of the crop grasses will suggest new ways to identify and create combinations of morphological traits that will best suit our future needs.

To examine whether Brachypodium relatedness to important crop grasses is maintained at the level of cell wall composition, we compared the monosaccharide composition of stem cell wall from several grass species with that of Arabidopsis, a well-characterised dicot model.

Maize and other panicoid crop grasses have been selected for a decrease in both tillering and axillary branching, but even elite maize varieties will show vegetative branching under ideal growing conditions without competition (Moulia et al., 1999).

Sorghum bicolor, an annual crop grass that can be made perennial by cultural practices, harbors substantial genetic variation for leaf senescence, with several mapped quantitative trait loci (QTL) affecting the timing or rate of leaf senescence [ 9].

Among sod crops, grasses or grass legume mixtures are less erosive than pure stands of legumes such as alfalfa.

Because BYDV-PAV has been reported more frequently in annual cereals and CYDVs in perennial non-crop grasses, we examine the hypothesis that the viruses' genetic differences reflect different affinities for crop and non-crop hosts.

And even if the goals are met, there's no guarantee that using liquid fuels produced from crops, grasses, and trees will reduce the country's overall greenhouse gas emissions.

Adequate sampling in this case requires sampling of crop and non-crop grasses, in order to understand the phylogenetic context in which the cereals are found.