Sentence examples for increasing nutritional value from inspiring English sources

On the other hand, when manufacturers add sugar to foods they're not increasing nutritional value, just boosting calories.

As indicated, genetic manipulation of the expression levels of these precursors/enzymes may lead to an increased accumulation of lysine in the endosperm and thus an increased nutritional value of the rice seeds.

The other is the genetically modified food business -- which attempts to add genes to natural crops that confer resistance to pests, increased nutritional value and other useful features.

Leading role in protection of chickpea seeds against fungal attack was given to phenolic substances [7], which could also contribute to increased nutritional value of chickpea seeds.

Proponents argue that tweaking a crop's DNA can increase nutritional value, pest resistance, or yield to help feed the world's growing population.

Results obtained indicated that chickpea genotypes with higher oil content could have increased nutritional value due to higher glutathione and lower phytate content observed.

The chapters in the book discuss (1) advances in the development, use, and evaluation of controlled-release fertilizers; (2) developments in breeding crops for increased nutritional value.

This approach in combinations with introduction and/or knockouts of various oxime-metabolizing enzymes has great potential for the design of "biotech crops" with novel natural products and with improved pest resistance and increased nutritional value.

So, GE crops have been primarily engineered not for any increased nutritional value or consumer benefit, but to make it easier to control certain insects and spray herbicides on growing crops, killing weeds but leaving the genetically transformed crops unharmed.

There are several examples where the modification of certain metabolic pathways led to the production of plants with an increased nutritional value.

Here the modification of the aspartate-derived amino acid synthesis pathway to increase the production of the essential amino acids threonine and lysine could lead to the development of crops with increased nutritional value [ 39, 40].