We have collected data on growth of the crop, identification and sometimes weight of weed biomass, time of hoeing, pest occurrence, and nutrient sampling of crops and weeds.
In addition, the International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics has set up labs in Malawi and other countries that offer affordable enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay testing for rapid sampling of crops.
Much of the seed brought in for the project will come from collections made in Afghanistan in the early 1970's, as part of an international effort to safeguard samples of crop varieties.
It holds more than 500,000 samples of crop germ plasm, providing a backup for the national and international seed banks that donated the material.
The Multilateral System of Access and Benefit-sharing currently comprises over 2.6 million samples of crop germplasm.
The International Treaty's Multilateral System of Access and Benefit-sharing (MLS) comprises a global genepool of over 2.3 million samples of crop seeds, available to farmers and breeders.
They collect samples of crops as souvenirs and scream with excitement, or frustration, or both, when they find themselves at a dead end.
To review changes in the extent of pasturelands (Figure 2), we processed Landsat images acquired in 2010c using a supervised classification based on samples of cropped areas, orchards, pastures in the plains, pastures in the hills and woodlands.
The farmers test samples of every crop they grow, and then they post the results on the Internet for all to see.
The oldest carbonized sample of the crop found by archaeologists in the Pacific dates to about 1000 C.E. nearly 500 years before Columbus's first voyage.
