Sentence examples for varieties of crop from inspiring English sources

Most available commercial varieties of crop plants bear resistance to at least one, and often several, pathogens.

This is because seed banks rarely store varieties of crop that do not produce seeds, including cassava, bananas and many other fruits and berries.

Resistant varieties of crop plants have been developed to reduce losses from wilts of alfalfa, corn, and tobacco; angular leaf spot of cotton and tobacco; and bacterial pustule of soybeans, among others.

His theory, largely unproven, is that modern horticulture methods such as hydroponics (growing fruits and vegetables in irrigated matting rather than soil) and chemical fertilisers, together with new varieties of crop, longer storage times and long-distance transport, may havecaused changes in the nutritional value of the foods we eat.

So it is implacable to either search for salinity resistant varieties of crop plants or transform them genetically to sustain growth and reproducibility at increasing salinity stress.

More than 100 meters below a mountain buried in permafrost is a seed vault with the capacity to store more than 4.5 million varieties of crop, and which houses almost 1 million.

So the farmers plant huge varieties of crops, which means more labor-intensive husbandry.

In fact, these plant pests sometimes limit the kinds and varieties of crops that can be grown.

To contaminate traditional varieties of crops is to contaminate the genetic reservoir of plants on which humanity has depended for most of its history.

From ensuring that cosmetics and medications are safe, to developing the varieties of crops we are familiar with, scientists are vital.

Smaller farms are often better able to save seeds and develop new varieties of crops that are adaptable to changing weather and climate.