Sentence examples for was first cultivated from inspiring English sources

Cassava probably was first cultivated by the Maya in Yucatán.

The loose-skinned mandarin-type Temple orange was first cultivated there.

Although mate is an ancient Guaraní beverage, the plant was first cultivated by Jesuit missionaries.

It was first cultivated in the Middle East and myth has it the smelly bulb sprang from Satan's left footprint.

Uji is best known as the place where tea was first cultivated in Japan in the Muromachi era (1338 1573).

The game was first cultivated for its connections to the West -- just what makes current games testing grounds for the power of the Islamic mullahs.

Species like the October Glory red maple, the Snow Queen hydrangea and the Princeton Century gingko, while abundant throughout the country, are now sparse on the grounds where they were first cultivated.

The Fertile Crescent, stretching from the Egyptian Nile to the mouth of the Tigris and Euphrates, is where agriculture began, where wheat, lentils, chickpeas, sheep and goats and olives were first cultivated.

Instead, in essays that span the globe, from the Fertile Crescent, where garbanzo beans are beloved, to China, where soybeans were first cultivated, Albala sketches their histories and wallows in their sometimes retrograde status, lingering on the oddball members of the family Fabaceae, like the hairy vetch and the bitter vetch, not to mention the Kentucky coffee tree.

Recombinant P. pastoris cells with blip gene were first cultivated in BMGY medium for 20 h.

A clear example of this situation occurs in the Priorat region (Catalonia, NE Spain), where vineyards were first cultivated in the XII century on hillslopes with terracing systems utilizing small stone walls.