Sentence examples for germplasm from inspiring English sources

He describes Stanford as "the germplasm for innovation.

Ninety-five per cent of the world's itinerant cocoa germplasm — shoots, pods, and the like — has a required layover in Reading, where it is kept until proved uncontaminated.

The groves — now named the Citrus Variety Collection — are one of the largest and most diverse of their kind, and serve as a national repository for citrus germplasm.

"We had the U.S. Navy involved, we had consulates involved, we were buying seeds from companies in Europe, and we established agreements with two dozen countries for reciprocal exchanges of germplasm.

We never worked with Red Delicious here, so we had a totally different set of germplasm in our apples.

It's a complex hybrid of native grapes and Old World germplasm.

Consider, for example, debates over patents, copyrights, indigenous knowledges, genetic codes, and the information in the germplasm of seeds.

In the nineteen-fifties, the government constructed a national seed bank — the Fort Knox of seeds — in Fort Collins, Colorado, the cornerstone of what is known today at the National Plant Germplasm System.

Finally, the National Plant Germplasm System, the Department of Agriculture's national reserve of crop seeds, should be charged with evaluating hundreds of thousands of seed collections for drought and heat tolerance, as well as other climatic adaptations — and given the financing to do so.

"It may look like a shitty little field with runty little trees in a random little town, but it's an amazing scientific resource," Olson said, as he led me through the hilly, hardscrabble acre that constitutes the International Moringa Germplasm Collection.

The Agriculture Department's National Clonal Germplasm Repository in Winters, west of Sacramento, has a collection of 60 types of pomegranates, with red, yellow, orange and greenish skins.