Sentence examples for maize varieties that from inspiring English sources

Understanding the maize genome will enable geneticists to develop new and improved maize varieties that are more nutritious or can withstand harsher environments.

NEW DELHI Hoping to kick-start another green revolution, the Indian government on 5 October announced the creation of a research center to develop wheat and maize varieties that thrive in warmer temperatures and on degraded land.

Over the last half a century there has only been negligible adoption of new maize varieties that have been centrally developed and then released for cultivation in this complex environment.

They scored, finding a small number of maize varieties that grow in both tropical and temperate climates and which carry a gene variant that slows down the conversion of beta-carotene to other substances, leaving more to make vitamin A. As important, they also found a genetic marker that signals when this sought-after gene variant is in place.

Since Bt maize based on this event is not grown anymore, we need to compare the Cry1Ab concentrations with the currently grown Bt maize varieties, that contain the events Bt11 and MON810.

Stover samples were obtained from a set of maize varieties that were diverse for stover composition and digestibility (Additional file 1).

The analysis of the honeydew produced by R. maidis feeding on several maize varieties showed that only a small proportion of the sugars were aphid-produced.

It describes what happened to rats fed with NK103 maize, a variety that is resistant to a herbicide called Roundup, as a result of genetic modification by Monsanto, an American plant-science firm.

These include a full trisomic series (Birchler 1994), stocks that contain chromosomes from the related wild grass species Tripsacum (Leblanc et al. 2009), and oat varieties that contain single maize chromosomes (called oat-maize addition lines) (Rines et al. 2009).

It came in an inestimable number of varieties that differed in color, texture, size and prestige, and was eaten as corn tortillas, tamales or ātōlli, maize gruel.

For agricultural production, the government and tobacco companies have introduced new technology that use plastic covers, drip irrigation, and sprinklers, and introduced crop varieties that consume less water like maize/corns to make wise use of scarce water resources.