Sentence examples for maize that is from inspiring English sources
It is a form of maize that is resistant to a devastating virus.
The result is a grain yield (for example, maize) that is roughly one-third less than what could be achieved with better farm inputs.
Michele Bonomo, head of Legambiente's Campagnia regional office, says: "Toxins have already been found in milk and in some maize that is fed to animals".
Jennifer Thompson and Edward Rybicki, of the University of Cape Town, have developed a variety of maize that is resistant to maize-streak virus, another insect-borne disease (the culprits here are leaf-hoppers).
Like many others in the corn belt, the Nevada refinery is seen as a way for the whole rural community to thrive by exploiting America's new craving for ethanol and the corn (maize) that is being used to make it.Corn-based ethanol is neither cheap nor especially green: it requires a lot of energy to produce.
Zeng et al. (2015) also estimated the yield advantage of improved maize that is 48 63% over local maize types.
Some concluded that the crop plant arose through the domestication by early agriculturalists of a wild maize that was now extinct, or at least undiscovered.
In the present study, three commercial strains of P. ostreatus (N001, Pearl and Blue) were grown on maize that was contaminated at three concentrations (25, 250 and 2500 ng g−1) of AFB1 in mesocosms using standard mushroom cultivation techniques.
These people live in parts of the world where their diets are dominated by staples – foods such as rice, wheat, cassava, millet and maize – that are high in calories but lack iron, zinc, vitamin A and other micronutrients.
These investigations mostly concern GM soy and maize that are engineeredeither to be herbicide-tolerant (to Roundup (R) in 80% of cases), or to produce amodified Bt toxin insecticide, or both.
However, breakdown products from AFB1-contaminated maize that was treated with the N001 and Blue strains did show significant reversion in the first run of a duplicated acid reversion assay.
