Sentence examples for crop leaves from inspiring English sources

"Crop leaves exposed to full sunlight absorb more light than they can use," Long said.

Silkworms fed by crop leaves were designated to produce partial animal nutrition for the crew.

How to effectively and accurately measure the NDVI value of crop leaves in the field is a challenge on in-field use instrument development.

Our results indicate that management practices to change the roughness-contouring of the soil, maintaining a high vegetation cover below the citrus crops, and devising pesticide spraying techniques that would efficiently increase the contact with the crop leaves would be expected to significantly reduce pesticide losses.

Vast fields of sesame lay ruined by Hurricane Norbert, the year's only crop left to the birds.

The family had borrowed 80,000 rupees, or about $1,640, to treat his kidney disease; the failed crop left them without money to pay off the debt.

In the past month, armed gangs of settlers have tried to prevent Palestinian farmers from harvesting the olive crop, leaving at least one Palestinian dead and acres of farmland torched.

Pacquito Manog, 60, a farmer in the village of Iba, which is part of Basey, said Typhoon Haiyan badly damaged his rice crop, leaving him with only 10 percent of his anticipated yield.

The type of effort that suggests they've mortgaged the farm and have just the one crop left to plant.

This spurious conflation quashed the industry for about 60 years, until a 2014 farm bill defined it as an agricultural crop, leaving the door ajar to American farmers.

Planet Earth has been ravaged of its resources, the only crop left to farm is corn (thanks, Monsanto), and even that is dying of blight.