Sentence examples for enhanced seeds from inspiring English sources

Although much of the basic science has come from universities, the commercial development has been done by private companies that have shielded their multi-million dollar investment with patents.Farmers must pay "technology fees" to the firms to use their genetically enhanced seeds.

Monsanto itself promotes chemically enhanced seeds that perpetuate a cycle of dependency and have devastated parts of the world most affected by hunger, environmental degradation, and extreme poverty.

Plants expressing the Vp1 gene displayed a genetically stable, significantly enhanced seed dormancy and PHS tolerance.

Transgenic plants with the pSh2::Sh2rhs construct in wheat enhanced seed AGP activity, resulting in an increase in yield (see above).

In soybean, increase in Maillard reaction during accelerated ageing caused enhanced seed deterioration (Sun and Leopold 1995).

They also enhanced seed germination, root and shoot length, and decreased wilt incidence under green house condition.

Various researchers have attempted to determine the vermicompost maturity, and the results have revealed that the vermicompost enhanced seed germination (Edwards and Burrows 1988; Bachman and Metzger 2008).

Prasad et al. [2] recorded application of ZnO-NPs (25 nm @ 1000 ppm) enhanced seed germination, seedling vigor, plant and root growth in peanuts.

Therefore, this proposed method of macroencapsulation enables customization to achieve enhanced seeding efficiency without mass transfer impedance for different culture configurations.

Nevertheless, spider mite densities exceeded economic thresholds in many of the release plots, and neither early releases (3 6 nodes per plant) or late releases (>7 nodes per plant) enhanced seed cotton yields.

In contrast, HaHSFA4a enhanced seed longevity.