Sentence examples for surrounding crop from inspiring English sources

Rats fed either genetically engineered corn or the herbicide Roundup had an increased risk of developing tumors, suffering organ damage and dying prematurely, according to a new study that was immediately swept up into the furor surrounding crop biotechnology when it was released Wednesday.

Pollination was more affected by local factors than landscape factors, although pollination success was improved by a smaller proportions of surrounding crop fields.

The belts of trees used an estimated 150 mm more water than was received through rainfall, approximately 30 mm from the surrounding crop and the remainder from groundwater.

At Drayton, changes in surrounding crop cover, with the introduction of willow coppice and reduced area of arable land and agricultural inputs, considerably influenced ground beetle activity/density and assemblages in non-crop habitat.

Thus, growers who intend to minimize gene flow from surrounding crop varieties commonly do so by increasing the spacing between fields [1].

Our study indicates that when developing genetically modified crops, a judicious selection of insertion sites, based on knowledge of selective (dis)advantages of the surrounding crop genome under field conditions, could diminish transgene persistence.

The results were interpreted as indicative of advection effects from the surrounding crops.

We applied cost distance modeling to investigate the relationship between the in-crop density of natural enemies and the structural connectivity of non-crop land uses surrounding crops within Australian cotton landscapes.

In order to avoid alien plant invasions of natural habitats and surrounding crops and to develop management practices to face this problem, it is not only essential to understand which traits favour the success of alien plants in irrigated crops and floodplains, but also whether a flow of species between these two habitats actually exists.

But GM detractors claim the technology is untested and could lead to problems down the track, including detrimental effects to health, and the contamination of surrounding crops.

While other authors have noted the relevance of pollinator abundance, adventitious plants, and the area of surrounding crops to pollen-mediated gene flow [1], [16], [17], to our knowledge, this is the first empirical study to statistically describe the concurrent effects of these factors on gene flow rates.