Sentence examples for landraces from inspiring English sources

The best way to harness this adaptability is simply to let nature get on with it.Farmers' eagerness to jettison their wily old landraces is understandable.

Landraces were, after all, thoroughly domesticated; if they weren't cultivated, they couldn't survive.

In the case of many landraces, the only alternative to extinction was preservation in the breeders' ex-situ storage centers — the seed banks.

But most of these banks were short- or medium-term storage facilities, and even the long-term centers, like the national seed bank at Fort Collins, were at the time poorly funded and staffed, and hardly qualified to serve as the last line of defense against the mass extinction of landraces.

But Fowler maintained that even primitive landraces represented many generations of selection by farmers who lived around the centers of diversity, going back thousands of years.

Landraces perform better in marginal environmental conditions than modern cultivars produced by selective breeding.

Perhaps in another thousand years, basil, now it's arrived over here, will have developed a greater resistance to cold and become our very own landrace variety – Ocimum basilicum 'Britannia'.

For Emma's three samples of landrace maize, the blue, the red, the long-toothed yellow, my uncle reserved just east of the barn a plot as yet unpoisoned by the pesticide which the cranes, who are also endangered, unerringly found so when the first green shoots had sprouted they were one by one before their time extracted from the earth and seed by seed consumed.

Poetry by Linda Gregerson: "For Emma's three samples / of landrace maize, / the blue, the red, / the long-toothed yellow, my uncle / reserved…                         1 His ears his mouth his             with ash, his cheekbones of seawrack that cannot             vomit then and either blast or angled on the stretcher so….

Conventional breeders know exactly what qualities they want in a plant before they get them, but growing "landrace" crops is all about serendipity and surprise.

Geneticists call them "landrace" varieties.