Sentence examples for native crop from inspiring English sources

This variety - which is easy to grow, store and transport - accounts for the bulk of our native crop.

Linkage Disequilibrium (LD) – the nonrandom association of alleles at separate loci – in hybrid genomes could lead to genetic hitchhiking of transgenes with native crop genes that do confer a selective advantage under natural field conditions (Mackay and Powell 2007).

Some of our best-known examples of plants in the early stages of domestication come from Mesoamerica, where native crop species are frequently cultivated in traditional agroecosystems such as home gardens (e.g., Blancas et al. 2009; Bost 2009; Hughes et al. 2007; Miller and Schaal 2005).

Click here to order a copy from the Guardian Bookshop for £21 Chestnuts are one of China's native crops and have been cultivated there for millennia.

Suppliers of native crops – including cucumbers, apples, raspberries and blackberries – could go out of business because of potential bans on EU migrant workers.

The rationale for the biosafety treaty was that genetically modified plants, animals or micro-organisms could displace or endanger native crops or microbes.

The major native crops were yams (Dioscorea species), taro (Colocasia esculenta), breadfruit (Artocarpus communis), bananas (Musa species), sugarcane (Saccharum species), coconuts (Cocos nucifera), and Tahitian chestnuts (Inocarpus edulis).

Zambia fears that some of the kernels might be used as seed, producing genetically modified corn that could cross-contaminate native crops and make them unacceptable in export markets squeamish about genetically engineered products.

Mrs. Clinton's effort to bone up on the fine details of the state — such as the Jordanian population in Yonkers and native crops — fits, almost too well, the public perception o her as a policy wonk extraordinaire.

Now the damage is done mainly through neglect: failing to invest in rural infrastructure to provide access to markets, or in agricultural research to develop technologies and native crops suited to local conditions, such as sorghum.

In South Africa, the chacma baboon (Papio ursinus) competes with domestic sheep for grazing lands and is an occasional predator of lambs; in West and Central Africa, native crops are subject to daily assaults by forest-living monkeys; and in India, macaques, which have been accorded a semisacred status, live alongside people in towns and villages and are parasitic upon them for food and shelter.