Sentence examples for native crops from inspiring English sources

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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.

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.

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).

The colonizers replaced native food crops and forests with such monoculture crops as sunflowers, eucalyptus, and teak, which were cash crops created primarily for export.

To ban the snakes under federal law, the government would have to show that they posed a threat to native plants, crops or animals.