SEARCH, a non-profit body in Tucson, collects wild plant varieties, including rare or unknown chiles.
Collectively, CGIAR centres maintain 600, 000 plant varieties in crop genebanks in a global effort to conserve agricultural biodiversity.
Many of the old plant varieties found in the walled garden from the original estate were replanted and regrown.
Perhaps because of her passion for organic farming, Merrigan, while a staffer for the Senate Agriculture Committee, was completely uneducable about the importance of genetically improved plant varieties to advances in agriculture.
Better plant varieties, chemical fertilizers and agricultural management contributed to the great increase in agricultural yields of the past century, but part of the increase almost certainly came from additional CO2 in the atmosphere.
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As a result, farmers are unwilling to plant the flour varieties.
The company has screened thousands of varieties of plant and microbe searching for agents that might help fight inflammation, cancer or diabetes.
The Marihuana (sic) Tax Act of 1937 effectively banned all varieties of the plant cannabis sativa, although farmers were temporarily exempted from this while they were encouraged to grow hemp during wartime.
It starts with the plant breeders who develop new crop varieties and extends through seed production, farmers who cultivate the crops, grain handlers, transporters and processors, and finally to marketers and retailers.
So when I heard about a company that is using artificial intelligence, data scraping, and database calculations as a means to predict what seed varieties a farmer should plant to get the maximum yield from their exact plot of ground, my mind immediately started to ponder how this could be applied to marketers.
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The Plant Patent Act of 1930 was designed to encourage the cultivation of new varieties of plants by prohibiting competitors from cultivating the offspring of those plants without permission.
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But, more significantly, the genetically modified varieties tended to do worse than those produced by traditional methods of plant breeding.
He helps produce about 60 varieties, starting with a dark green bud called "Mighty Mite, " a plant for urban window boxes that grows to the size and shape of a corn dog.
Bass is an accomplished gardener herself who can identify all 140 varieties in the rose garden Cox created for her by their Latin names, along with every other plant in her gardens.
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