Sentence examples for engineering crop from inspiring English sources

Engineering crop plants to produce a heterologous phytase improves phosphate bioavailability and reduces phytic acid excretion.

These photoreceptors thus hold considerable promise for engineering crop plant responses to light.

The carbon mitigation performance, environmental and economic trade-offs, and sustainability level of the system encompassing biogas engineering, crop production and livestock subsystems was investigated in detail.

Bioassays suggested that SKTI could be used as a tool in engineering crop plants, which might exhibit increased resistance against cotton boll weevil.

These results and the previous data suggest that mtlD gene can be used for engineering crop plants for both biotic and abiotic stress tolerance.

The synthetic gene, first of its kind, appears promising and might serve as a potential candidate for engineering crop plants against major insect pests.

Are they the multinational companies or the local farmers?' "We are looking at a scenario where these people are engineering crops and we will very soon lose that ownership [of the seeds]." Fredrick Kawooya, the policy and campaigns manager at ActionAid Uganda, agreed: "We have this suspicion that we are surrendering our sovereignty over the food system to the corporates in the long run.

The recent developments in engineering crops with increased carotenoid contents are covered.

Engineering crops into high level production of specific fructan molecules is one of the mayor strategic research goals.

It will also provide the means to develop, through classical breeding or genetic engineering, crops with modified levels of anti-nutritional SAs.

In this review, we present an overview of recent advances in understanding the regulation of nitrogen metabolism by the action of microRNAs with a view toward engineering crops with increased nitrogen use efficiency.