Sentence examples for groups of crops from inspiring English sources

Thus, as population density increased, the latter groups of crops tended to be substituted for the former.

In other significant changes, the ENVI committee scrapped the member states' proposal to involve seed companies directly in the banning process an idea that had outraged environmental groups and suggested letting member states ban groups of crops at once, instead of one by one.

To incorporate crop industries by irrigation type (i.e., irrigated and rainfed) into the GTAP-BIO-AEZ database, we rely on the SAGE database documented in Monfreda et al. [37] and the pioneering work done by PSD [8] who developed a database which provides data on harvested area and yield by irrigation type for 29 groups of crops and 160 countries/regions at the 5 × 5 arc minute grid cell level.

The resulting graphs revealed differences in diversity among the four groups of crops.

Two key papers discuss domestication in the New World (Pickersgill, 2007) and the Old World (Fuller, 2007), while the papers that follow relate to particular crops or groups of crops.

The groups of crops collectively known as rocket (or arugula, rucola, roquette) are all members of the Brassicaceae family, and are native to the areas surrounding the Mediterranean Sea (Martinez-Sanchez et al., 2006).

Genetic relationships among different groups of crop germplasm were inferred by obtaining a distance matrix with a custom R function and clustering them based on the neighbor-joining algorithm with the freely available R package "ape" (Paradis et al. 2004).

We considered a typical crop genetic diversity analysis with three major diversity components that were aimed to (1) estimate observed and expected heterozygosities (Ho, He) and inbreeding coefficient (F), (2) assess genetic differentiation, and (3) infer genetic relationships among different groups of crop germplasm, respectively.

The farmers will also conduct a number of randomized trials by using a control group of crops to compare the health of new seed varieties with the old varieties.

He deduced water quality criteria based on field observation of their effects and reported these for a given soil, a given climate and a given group of crops.

The cultivated Brassica species are the group of crops most closely related to Arabidopsis thaliana.