Sentence examples for maize caused by from inspiring English sources

Earlier this year, increases in the price of maize, caused by swelling demand for corn for ethanol production, led to food riots in Mexico.

In comparison with pea, significant stimulation of root system growth of maize caused by 0.1 mg L−1 (total length longer by 25%, number of lateral roots by 35%) and its reduction (total length by 34%) already by 1 mg L−1 FLT is the proof of different interspecies sensitivity to low and higher environmental loading.

Leaf surface moisture typically supports higher infection rates for bacterial foliar pathogens [38], [41], and bacterial stripe and leaf spot of maize caused by B. andropogonis tends to be more severe during periods of wet and warm weather [42].

Southern leaf blight is a foliar disease of maize caused by the fungus Cochliobolus heterostrophus.

Fusarium ear rot disease of maize, caused by the fungus Fusarium verticillioides (Sacc) Nirenberg, is endemic to maize production systems in the United States and worldwide [ 1].

Fusarium Ear Blight (FEB) disease, also known as Fusarium head scab disease, is a globally significant threat to the floral tissues of small grain cereal crops such as wheat, barley and maize, caused by several species of ascomycete fungi of the genus Fusarium.

The discovery of two maize mutants caused by recent insertions of Helitrons and the presence of nearly identical Helitrons at different locations in the maize genome point to their recent movement in maize (Kapitonov and Jurka 2001; Lal et al. 2003; Gupta et al. 2005a; Lai et al. 2005).

Our earlier report of two maize mutants caused by the recent insertion of Helitrons provided the first genetic evidence of their mobility in the present day maize genome (Lal et al. 2003; Gupta et al. 2005).

We rather think that the higher colony densities on Bt maize were caused by differences in chemical constituents that rendered the plants less well defended and/or more nutritious for the aphids (e.g. [31], [32]).

Reviews of under-five and antenatal clinic records are showing that moderate malnutrition levels are also rising and the trend is likely to continue and probably get worse due to poor maize harvest caused by drought and floods.

Additionally, the extreme plasticity of the maize genome caused by the activity of transposable elements at coding as well as at intergenic regions [ 56, 57] makes it likely that changes at the regulatory region of flowering time genes could have caused early flowering, and could have recurrently been selected.