Sentence examples for the development of crops from inspiring English sources
Researchers at Bolton and Warwick universities have made a molecular-level discovery in plants that could lead to the development of crops that are more resilient to climate change.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which is supporting the final testing of Golden Rice, is also underwriting the development of crops tailored for sub-Saharan Africa, like cassava that can resist the viruses that routinely wipe out a third of the harvest, bananas that contain higher levels of iron and corn that uses nitrogen more efficiently.
This review covers genetic engineering approaches currently being evaluated for the development of crops resistant to geminiviruses.
Further development of biotechnology and genomics tools will enable the development of crops with specific traits that are optimized for biofuels and bioenergy.
World food security is increasingly dependent on continuous crop improvement and, in particular, the development of crops with increased drought and salinity tolerance.
During the development of CRoPS, which led to the current sample preparation protocol, we have made several modifications (see Methods) to the original protocol for GS 20 sequencing [23] which was conceived for library preparation of a single sample.
Where water is unavailable for irrigation, the development of crop varieties able to grow under conditions of low moisture or temporary drought could both boost yields and lengthen the time that farmland is productive.
This provides a promising perspective for the development of crop plants with improved stress tolerance.
Therefore research aims on the development of crop specific and water-saving irrigation techniques without detrimentally affecting crop productivity.
Climate variability influences the development of crop diseases, including through an effect on crop structure and hence on the microclimate.
The large variability among clover species indicates that species selection is a very important aspect of the development of cropping systems that include clover as a cover crop.
