Sentence examples for varieties of corn from inspiring English sources

Outside, we admired a garden patterned after those where the Hidatsas and their Mandan neighbors grew nine varieties of corn.

For example, it is possible to breed varieties of corn (maize) much higher in lysine than previously existing varieties.

Monsanto is the leader in the genetic engineering of crops, but it needs to get its genes into the popular varieties of corn and soybeans sold by Pioneer.

Shiva argues that because many varieties of corn, soybeans, and canola have been engineered to resist glyphosate, there has been an increase in the use of herbicides.

In 2001, for instance, scientists discovered modified genes in traditional varieties of corn in Mexico, the ancestral home of the crop and the site of its greatest diversity.

He was dismayed to see farmers struggling to harvest crops from depleted fields, and became convinced that new varieties of corn and wheat could bring enormous benefits.

It is trying to develop local varieties of maize (corn) and soyabean, which are not grown there commercially, but may be as the temperature climbs.Yet biotech firms cannot be relied upon to look after crop biodiversity.

The best source for Native American corn is Native Seeds/Search (nativeseeds.org), which offers dozens of varieties of flour corn, popcorn, sweet corn and dent corn.

In 1997 Monsanto introduced a variety of corn resistant to various pests.

The protein is the same one in StarLink, a variety of corn that turned up in taco shells.

At about 2500 bc a primitive variety of corn (maize) first appeared in the Tamaulipas area in the La Perra phase.