Sentence examples for maize owing to from inspiring English sources

Because this species relies solely on targeted Lepidopteran pests, it is unsurprising that its abundance was reduced in Bt maize owing to the effective control of its primary hosts (Wolfenbarger et al. 2008).

Increased demand for maize owing to population growth and biofuel production, and the impacts of climate change on maize production will ratchet up the pressure for increased and more sustainable maize production.

In case of the maize data, owing to the large number of available ESTs for this species, which is difficult to assemble, we followed an alternative way of assembling those ESTs.

Among major cereals, about 83% of rice, 52% of wheat and 59% of maize crop production are lost owing to the damages caused by insect pests [ 42].

57– 59 Moreover, commercially fortified maize flour and corn meal can be available, but not accessible, owing to slightly increased costs, especially when fortification is voluntary.

The high content of repeats in the maize genome introduces a high error probability in the process of SNP calling, owing to possible incorrect alignments [ 15].

Similarly, nucleotide variation in the gene phytoene synthase (Y1), which makes maize kernels yellow, was only 5.3% of that in the gene that makes them white, owing to the human preference for yellow grains, which have higher nutritional value [ 16].

Mutant plants of brittle-1 in maize (Shannon et al. 1998) and lys5 in barley (Patron et al. 2004) show drastically decreased kernel dry weight, owing to the absence of a plastidial ADP-glucose transporter.

Venezuela and Nigeria are unreliable, owing to civil strife.

Turnout was low, owing to the snow.

These days, owing to post-Sept.