Sentence examples for mainstream crops from inspiring English sources

Preserving a wide range of plant variants is crucial, experts say, because they provide plant scientists and farmers with a bank of genes that can be bred into mainstream crops as growing conditions and societal needs change.

However, there has been a resurgent interest among the public in cultivating heritage varieties of late (aided by a relaxation in EU law on non-commercial seed sales), which in turn is good news for everyone: for heirloom vegetables contain a wealth of genetic material that could prove resistant to pests or diseases that might threaten mainstream crops in the future.

Large scale SNP developments have been reported for several mainstream crops.

"D.A.N.C.E.," the closest thing Justice has to a current mainstream single, cropped up only as a fragmented allusion.

But in 1986, as the nascent hip-hop scene in New York was entering the musical mainstream, the song cropped up on the first volume of "Ultimate Breaks and Beats", a compilation of tracks with "clean", drums-only segments.

As Shoreditch goes more mainstream, changing pockets are cropping up farther east.

The young saxophonist Chris Potter is typical of the next crop of mainstream jazz players: he's a combiner.

As Tommy Lee Jones's sheriff responds to his deputy's assessment of a drugs massacre as 'a mess' in No Country for Old Men: 'If it ain't, it'll do until the mess gets here.' This is, without a doubt, the best crop of mainstream American films we've seen for more than 30 years.

The current crop of mainstream stars only point the way to HBO.

But the recent crop of mainstream horror films have all been pretty bad.

Despite 2015 producing a weak crop of mainstream films, the niche market is showing signs of growth.