Sentence examples for starchy crops from inspiring English sources

After all, we feed starchy crops to animals to fatten them, so why won't they have the same effect on us?

Because agriculture relies on the mass cultivation of a handful of starchy crops, a community's whole livelihood can be wiped out overnight by bad weather or pests.

Competitors to Solazyme include biofuels makers like Gevo and Amyris, also public companies, that convert plant-based sugars — from sugarcane and other starchy crops, rather than algae — into fuel and oils that can displace petroleum-based products.

The production of first generation biofuel is primarily from food crops such as starchy crops (wheat, barley, corn, cassava, and potatoes), sugar crops (sugarcane, sugar beet, and sweet sorghum) and oil seeds [2, 10].

Nonfood crops include starchy crops, oil crops, and sugar crops.

The current understanding of starch biosynthesis in cassava relies very much on the observations in the Arabidopsis model plant, and other starchy crops such as the potato.

As the demand and the cost of these starchy crop materials is increasing day by day, it has become indispensible to use substitute raw resources.

Cassava, a non-cereal starchy crop, has been widely grown in poor soils and harsh climates than any other major food plant in Southeast Asia.

Most of the investment in agriculture is on starchy staple crops and less has been invested in leguminous crops, protein-rich grains or indigenous vegetables.

However, New Guinea Highlanders, whose main food staples are starchy root crops like sweet potato and taro, are chronically starved for protein, of which the island's dark, bristly pigs traditionally furnished the only large source.

On a fresh matter basis, the methane yield from starchy energy crops is an order of magnitude higher than that of liquid manure.