Sentence examples for sterile seed from inspiring English sources

But Monsanto has pledged that it will not commercialize sterile seed technology.

Yet to be commercialised, this technology effectively allows the production of GM crops that only yield sterile seed, thereby forcing the farmer to return to the company to buy more seed.

Lastly, by using sterile seed medium the optical density at 600 nm was adjusted to 1. Mineral salt solution (MSSO) medium was used to study biosurfactant production.

Based on the size, colour and texture of the seed capsules the sterilisation regime was followed as in Table 1, which shows that almost all the seed capsules collected in Madagascar by IVC gave rise to sterile seed cultures.

Part of the sterile seed pieces were also transferred into medium without phytohormones, for inducing embryo germination.

The seeds from the above mature slant culture was inoculated into 1 L Erlenmeyer flask containing 200 mL sterile seed liquid medium containing 10 g/L tryptone, 5 g/L yeast extract, and 10 g/L NaCl, and cultured on a rotary shaker (250 rpm) at 30 °C for 12 h.

It is especially pernicious to grow plants from sterile seeds, already robbed of their reproductive potential, patented and appropriated by profit-driven enterprises.

The deal could also conceivably deal a blow to a controversial genetic engineering technology that makes sterile seeds as a way of forcing farmers to buy new biotech seeds each year rather than saving the seed from one year's crop to plant the next.

One could not bring up a child on market principles, just as much as one cannot conserve water resources or share them equitably on the basis of market values set by the greed of water corporations or the willingness to pay of the privileged in society.Market fundamentalism applied to seed has given us terminator technologies to create sterile seeds, seed monopolies and seed famine.

(G) Fertile and sterile seeds from the whole plants of M23 and H143.

(g) Fertile and sterile seeds from the whole plants of HNIL(M23) and HNIL(H143).