Sentence examples for the modified seeds from inspiring English sources

While they remain higher than those of conventional seeds, in most cases the modified seeds provide greater benefits.

Because the modified seeds are used so widely, bollworms may develop a resistance to the toxins, he explained.

They found that using the modified seeds increased the farmers' cotton yields by 24 percent and their profits by 50 percent.

The proposed new rules, which are being published today in the Federal Register, are based on the premise that there are so many field trials of experimental genetically engineered crops that some of the crops will almost inevitably find their way into food, either by cross-pollination or because some of the modified seeds become mixed with other seeds.

The US Food and Drug Administration does not require genetically modified foods to carry a label, but organic food companies and some consumer groups have intensified their push for labels, arguing that the modified seeds are floating from field to field and contaminating traditional crops.

Dr. Matin Qaim, one of the paper's authors and an agricultural economist interviewed cotton farmers in central and Southern India over the course of several years, and found that "using the modified seeds increased the farmers' cotton yields by 24 percent and their profits by 50 percent".

The modified seed in question is known as Roundup Ready in its various forms because it is genetically modified to be resistant to herbicide, making it easier to control weeds that grow near the crop.

For each repetition, we executed the adapted PAM algorithm with a different starting seed, and then determined the number of haplotypes that were shared by the minimum-ADCL panels from both the initial run and the run with the modified seed.

The warning came from Monsanto, which licenses the technology for those modified seeds and plans not to renew the agreement.

"If we can't plant Roundup Ready at the last minute, we are likely not to have enough herbicide to cover all the acres," he said, referring to the genetically modified seeds.

If the Italian government does not relent on the genetically modified seeds, he warned, he commands an army of farmers across Italy who are prepared to plant MON810 to force its hand.