Sentence examples for crops evolve from inspiring English sources

They select seeds and save from year to year but is that the "right" kind of diversity that will help crops evolve quickly to climate change?

Because of the absence of sexual reproduction, it is easy to hypothesize that such crops evolve only by mutation and drift.

That heatwave was coming at just the wrong time, as farmers were watching their corn crops get ready to pollinate, a task that gets much harder at temperatures outside the norms with which those crops evolved.

No reliable observation has yet been made to refute the notion that livestock, pets, and crops evolved from wild predecessors.

Studies based on variation of isozymes and molecular markers such as RAPDs and AFLPs (Rottenberg et al., 1996; Sonnante et al., 2002, 2004; Lanteri et al., 2004; Raccuia et al., 2004 b ) have confirmed that both crops evolved from the wild cardoon gene pool, which can therefore be considered the progenitor of both of them.

Above we have modelled the geographical crop origin as a point location, but a crop origin may also be modelled as an area with a certain extent to assess the possibility of a 'protracted' domestication process, in which a crop evolves during a long period, perhaps several thousands of years, in an extended region, before spreading to other areas [15].

How do crop pathogens evolve in relation to the spatial arrangement and diversity of crop cultivars?

Generation Challenge Programme's semantics are designed to be extensible, and to allow for the addition of new semantics and novel data types as the needs of crop researchers evolve.

On pest resistance through GMOs, Ms. Furey spoke of how "superbugs resistant to pest-resistanct GMO crops have evolved and are destroying those crops".

As new crops of evolving mixed martial artists entered the octagon from an expanding talent pool, the widening gap between a select few champions and their peers has been stunning.

Mineral nutrition knowledge and fertilization management practices in the production of rose crops have evolved significantly in the last century, going from an organic and rudimentary methodology based in mineral soils to modern, technologically advanced nutrient delivery systems based on soilless growing media and hydroponics.