Sentence examples for lacking in crops from inspiring English sources
Long-term success of hybrid breeding depends on the recognition of high-yielding complementary heterotic patterns, which is lacking in crops like rice.
Evidence is lacking in inbred crops with a small effective population size (Ne) but in maize, an outcrosser with a large global Ne, a recent study has shown that multi-allelic QTL are the norm [ 21].
Here we investigated abundance of natural enemies in 61 vineyards from south eastern Australia, with either adjacent woody vegetation consisting of remnant native forests or wooded margins planted after establishment of the crop, or lacking in adjacent vegetation.
Comparative genomics is a powerful tool that can provide a starting point for accelerating progress in revealing the genomic structure of crops that are lacking in the necessary genomic tools [[ 25]].
While it would be preferable to directly study food crops (e.g., wheat) and biofuel crops (e.g., switchgrass), they are generally lacking in many of the desirable features that make Brachypodium such an excellent model system.
But this summer's crop has not met expectations — some mango varieties ripened too late in the season, others are too small or are lacking in taste or texture.
Beehives can be moved from crop to crop as needed, and the bees will visit many plants in large numbers, compensating via saturation pollination for what they lack in efficiency.
Lack of diversity in crops can have disastrous consequences - it makes them more susceptible to disease.
While extensive molecular knowledge exists for trichome development in Arabidopsis, an equivalent knowledge base is lacking for Brassica crop species.
Identification of the molecular regulators of ethylene-driven priming can be expected to lead to the introduction of this adaptive trait in crops that currently lack it.
