The APR of maize and Arabidopsis thaliana follows a diurnal rhythm with maximum activity during the light period. |
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This homolog maps on chromosome 10L and is part of the most recent set of segmental duplications in the maize genome. |
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For thicker roots, such as those of maize, sorghum or tea, this procedure could be used for visualizing the exodermis in a longitudinal view. |
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At this time, chill treatment seedlings were severely wilted with extensive leaf rolling characteristic of water-stressed maize. |
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Premium quality maize and barley is kibbled to optimise digestibility and increase the rumen utilisation rate. |
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A Kikuyu dish, Irio, often served with curried chicken, is made from beans, maize, and potatoes or cassava mashed to a thick pulp. |
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Well, I hooked three fish on maize, and the two runs with which I failed to connect were on the pop-up boilies. |
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Scientists will be able to use the completed rice genome as a template for their work with the other cereals, such as wheat and maize. |
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It may be eaten in the form of tamales, the dough stuffed with savoury or sweet mixtures and steamed in maize or banana leaves. |
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Yet archaeological evidence indicates that people were cultivating teosinte, the ancestor of domesticated maize, more than 7,000 years ago. |
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For decades plant biologists have been arguing about whether domestic maize is really a descendant of teosinte, a Mexican grass. |
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Besides GM cotton, genetically altered maize, soya and oilseed rape are grown. |
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Even though the people in the surrounding villages are starving, the maize will remain uneaten. |
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The major grain for consumption is maize, although in parts of the Zambezi Valley millet and sorghum are the principle grains. |
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He said normal constant rainfalls, which are normally experienced this time of the season, were very important to the growth of the maize crop. |
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Barley is also an important cereal crop species ranking fourth in the world after rice, the wheats, and maize. |
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Villagers cultivate maize, wheat and barley on verdant hillside terraces buttressed by stone escarpments. |
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Large amounts of maize, sugar beet and barley will fail unless there is a dramatic change in the weather. |
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After all, we have dealt with adventitious GM presence in maize previously on several occasions. |
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The maize maze at Blake End, near Braintree, is open for the summer and is growing fast. |
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In maize, as in all flowering plants, the seed develops inside a coat of maternal origin. |
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The trekkers also planted maize wherever they settled, and this soon came into cultivation by the Africans. |
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The amount of the amino acids threonine, proline and histidine were also increased in roots of slag-cultivated maize plants. |
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About eight or ten of them, squatting on the castaway cart, staring vacantly over the avocado trees and maize fields. |
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They have in the recent past included sugar, maize and maize seed, beef, stockfeed, cement, tobacco, some medicaments and cosmetics. |
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The products of the island are maize, copra, rice, sugar, and valuable timber. |
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The strings of red peppers, chillies or maize drying from verandas are common. |
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They are made either from a pasta dough or from a mixture of potato flour and wheat flour, or from semolina or maize. |
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The frequency of embryo formation was similar to that obtained by crossing wheat with maize pollen. |
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During the latter part of the last century, the cultivation of maize, which originated in the subtropics, has been extended to higher latitudes. |
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Mr Kapu said the area would be hit by hunger if the farmers continued to sell their maize at give-away prices. |
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It is no surprise that C4 plants, such as sugar cane, maize and sorghum are among the most productive crops in agriculture. |
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Others, before the introduction of maize, lived mostly on millet, sorghum, and bananas with such greenstuffs as could be gathered. |
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She has a mentality that even if we don't have money at least we have maize to make tortillas to eat. |
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Native people of Amazonia and the Sierra prepare chicha, a brew made from manioc and maize, respectively. |
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Peas, beans or carrots also formed part of the diet, plus corn, i.e. oats or maize. |
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Crops produced by these projects include mahango, maize, groundnuts, corn, cotton and various vegetables. |
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The roots of maize seedlings were cut separately and ground with a pestle in an ice-cold homogenization medium. |
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Transport of peptides and amino acids has been demonstrated in scutella isolated from barley, wheat, rice, and maize. |
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The bottom line we feel is to ensure a speedy delivery of maize to millers so that production operations are not disrupted. |
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About half the people eat rice as their staple, while the remainder subsist on wheat, barley, maize, and millet. |
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The bid price for high grade white maize was about K23,000 while offers were in the range of K27 000 per 50 kg bag. |
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In maize endosperm the pullulanase-type DBE activity is thought to have a bifunctional role, assisting in both starch synthesis and degradation. |
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The impact of the adoption of intensive maize agriculture on the human skeletal system is well documented in the bioarchaeological literature. |
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It has been stated by some bioarchaeologists that iron deficiency anemia increases with the adoption of maize agriculture. |
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The porcupine will gnaw at the base of the maize stalk and drop it, and in doing so is able to get to the maize cob. |
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Soybeans were planted on a Nebraska state field where an experimental biopharma maize was grown the year before. |
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Normal maize plants show strong apical dominance with one main axis of growth. |
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We pass fields of coffee, maize and bananas, including the vast estates of Del Monte. |
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These results illustrate that variation exists in maize for the impact of ploidy on gene expression. |
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A lot of them grow their own maize, but if that year's crop fails they've got no food. |
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This year's maize crop is expected to fail, worsening already serious food shortages. |
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Negative dietary changes are related to the deficiency of maize in the amino acids tryptophan and lysine. |
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According to the legend, American Indians came to their aid, sharing indigenous foods such as maize and turkey. |
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The Green Revolution package that is applied to the main fields includes the use of herbicides, effectively turning maize into a monocrop. |
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Even then, cocoa was a cash crop, the seeds traded for gold, silver, turquoise, maize, oil, beans, incense and cotton. |
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Calcium and phosphorous levels in maize silage are also low relative to grass silage. |
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The Sukuma live outside the Pimbwe villages in extended households and often cultivate large amounts of maize, sweet potatoes, millet, and rice. |
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The increase in cultivation of maize and sweet potatoes was also significant. |
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Kenya ugali na sukuma wiki, a stiff porridge made from maize meal, with collard-like greens boiled with tomatoes and onions. |
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One day while I was husking maize, after my daily devotion, my father's mother came and sat by me. |
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In addition, hydroponically grown maize showed proportions of H-units even lower than garden mould. |
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He said it was uneconomical for millers to go in rural areas and mobilise maize and later transport it to urban areas. |
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Sharp's unnumbered collection spans the years 1933-1938 and includes important annotations to linkage in maize. |
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The attack, which took place in the small hours of Monday morning, hit GM maize growing in the farm's research fields. |
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Sorghum, millet, maize, cowpeas, and black-eyed peas are the main subsistence crops. |
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He now had two patches of grain and maize while apricots, cherries, plums and quince hung heavily from boughs covered in thick, grey lichen. |
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In alfalfa and maize, seed production was shown to be severely depressed by endogamy. |
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They grow maize, sorghum, cassava, sweet potatoes and also rear domesticated animals like goats, pigs and chicken. |
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To address the deficiency problem, food manufacturers enrich flour, maize, and rice and fortify breakfast cereals with iron. |
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These initials are distichously arranged as would be found in teosinte or lateral branches of the maize tassel. |
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Most of our rural-dwelling kin actually grow their own maize, cassava or millet that they have milled at village mills. |
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The Shambaa diet is composed of starchy foods such as rice, maize, and sweet potatoes. |
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A favorite beverage of the Sherpas is Chang, a beer made from maize, millet, or other grains. |
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Brewing materials such as maize, sorghum and finger millet were in abundance in the area but were now being ferried to a neighbouring country. |
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The rather long drought in the district has taken a heavy toll on the cash crops like maize, tomato, capsicum, ginger and paddy. |
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The chloroplasts of some plants show the invagination of the inner membrane into granum particularly in Sorghum, maize and sugarcane. |
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The same rebalancing of zeins and non-zeins has been observed for maize seeds bred for 30% protein. |
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In the traditional menu maize dishes, goat meat, fish, and stewpots of local vegetables dominate. |
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The maize harvesters are working flat out, with all the signs pointing to excellent yields and feed quality from early-drilled crops. |
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The other issue of grave concern is the continual importation of maize grain. |
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He said the firm intended to increase the total hectarage to over 800 by planting seed maize and wheat. |
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By producing enough maize for instance, the economy would be saving money it would otherwise use to import food to meet the shortfall. |
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Signals from both subfamilies were mainly located in the centromeric regions of maize metaphase chromosomes. |
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Our failure to detect maize chromatin by in situ hybridization may be an indication of somatic instability and chimerism in these individuals. |
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On the Agricultural Research Council fields outside Huambo varieties of sweet potatoes, maize, potatoes, soy beans and peanuts are being planted. |
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Each woman had her own plots of land where she cultivated crops such as sweet potatoes, millet, maize, and beans. |
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The coast offers good harbours and the coastal plains are fertile, yielding sugarcane, sweet potatoes, and maize. |
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If we go ahead with growing GM maize here, it will be the thin end of a very thick wedge, and a huge political gamble. |
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Utilization of hybrid vigor or heterosis has been successful in cross-pollinated crops, of which maize is a primary example. |
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Together we melted into the nearby maize field to devour our ill-gotten contraband. |
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When maize encounters water deficits, there is a decline in photosynthesis per plant. |
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Mature leaves of maize were taken from plants grown in the greenhouse during the summer. |
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By contrast with mannitol, ionic osmotica induced plasmolysis of all root cells, irrespective of their position within the maize root apex. |
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It is not the same as cornmeal or maize meal, which are relatively whole flours containing most of the maize grain. |
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Genetically modified maize, the prevailing genetically modified plant cultivated in Bulgaria, is not on the list. |
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Additions which could be made to posole, to improve its basic pleasant but sharp taste, include honey, cacao, ground sapota seeds, green maize. |
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A team at Scotland's University of Stirling fed bee colonies with doses of imidacloprid, a neonicotinoid used on maize and oilseed rape. |
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In the maize tassel, gibberellin concentration is 100-fold lower than in the developing ears. |
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Whereas Georgians particularly like maize and Azerbaijanis favour rice, Armenians use a lot of burghul, notably in their plov dishes. |
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I took the man at his word and bought the thing sommer so with a bag of wild birdseed and crushed maize. |
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Facing them 200 yards away are the neat files of white sacks containing split peas and maize, each attended by companies of askari. |
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Three unshared genes in rice and one unshared gene in maize were given alphabetical designations. |
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The Zambian government rightly resisted bringing in unmilled GMO maize seed. |
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Plant height and leaf numbers of maize plants were measured at the tasselling stage. |
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A check by a Times reporter at the site yesterday found vehicles and heavy trucks loaded with bags of maize crossing through the bridge. |
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What we should see at this time of year are fields of maize about 1ft high and tractors fertilising the land. |
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As these items are costly, most people can only afford local beverages such as maize beer and palm wine. |
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The main crops that are harvested for this are maize, rice, wheat, and potatoes. |
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Two or three genes encode sucrose synthase isozymes in monocot species such as maize, barley, wheat, and rice. |
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The Asante's maize-fed army expanded tribal reach into neighboring savannahs, adapting floury maize to the drier climate. |
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He said farmers should instead consider selling their maize in the third quarter of the year when the price of maize appreciates. |
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Application of NaCl to the root system of maize plants exerts a strong water stress onto the plants. |
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Cattle farming required a more intensive cultivation of fodder crops such as maize, potatoes, turnips, and mangels. |
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She rose early to watch the farm workers begin their days planting and harvesting maize, tea and other cash crops. |
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Secondly, the root system of mature maize plants has a considerable size and complexity. |
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A 50 kg bag of maize costs 1 000 Malawian kwacha compared to 100 kwacha ten years ago. |
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Unlike maize, rice is predominantly autogamous and, hence, gene flow is restricted. |
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The 200,000 tonnes is the lead time needed for the importation of maize seed in the event of any shortfall. |
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The success of hybrid maize has produced interest in developing hybrids in autogamous crops. |
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The study documents public biotech research on 20 different crops, including maize, sweet potato, and cowpeas. |
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To localize genes of interest we have used common markers among foxtail millet, maize, and rice genomes. |
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Earlier this year CBN imported Copper Crest, which is touted as a traditional beer made from sorghum, maize, hops and caramel with yeast. |
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At the extreme, true prolificacy leads to protogyny whereas normal maize shows protandry. |
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In translocation heterozygotes of maize, segregation produces nonviable gametes and can be detected by a high frequency of nonstaining pollen. |
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These three staples, potato, quinoa, and maize, have all been used to make alcoholic drinks of varying potency. |
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The researchers observed more beetles in genetically modified, rather than conventional, maize crops. |
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In maize, in particular, cell death events are known to occur throughout normal development both in the sporophyte and in the gametophyte. |
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The maize was divided up into horizon touching plantations that Virginian tobacco growers would have gasped at. |
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Namibia will also not be affected by the rush on maize imports, as it is not land-locked like some other countries in the region. |
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Staple foods, apart from sorghum and millet, are maize, manioc, potatoes, rice, sesame, and some bean species. |
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Grains, particularly maize, and manioc are incorporated into almost all meals. |
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Some alternate breakfast foods include boiled manioc, maize porridge, or fried cakes made of rice flour. |
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The most important Native American cultivars were maize, white potatoes, sweet potatoes, and manioc or cassava. |
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A bag of maize now sells for E 95 in the formal market however in the informal market the price ranges from E120-140 per bag. |
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We also examine genetic variation in teosinte for several quantitative traits that differentiate maize and teosinte. |
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We observed a relatively low, although significant, level of differentiation between maize and teosinte. |
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Subspecies mexicana is the teosinte that grows most commonly in maize fields and has been observed to hybridize readily with maize. |
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Mr Li said the low profits that farmers had realised from the sale of their produce mainly maize last year had been the main contributing factor. |
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The carbon and water footprints associated with producing beef are about 20 times larger than maize production. |
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He came out dragging his bag of maize along the ground and this guy appeared to help carry it for him. |
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This is far removed from 1992 when the family produced sweet potatoes and maize crop, and reared goats. |
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Research shows that fodder maize can cross-pollinate plants up to 800m away and that under certain conditions, can travel miles. |
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No need to worry over wheat when you're harvesting barley, and maize isn't going to be as fruitful when it's time to sow fallow. |
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The recent release of the genome sequence for maize provided a particularly useful data set for this analysis. |
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The firm sold several hundred tons of the GM maize seed to US farmers over the past four years. |
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He said the Congolese were especially in need of foodstuffs such as maize meal, maize, goats and chickens. |
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He said price reductions were recorded for maize meal, fresh meat and vegetables, while other food items registered relatively stable prices. |
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Namibia's leading miller, Namib Mills, said on Wednesday it will reduce the prices of the staple food, maize meal and wheat flour products. |
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Others were blankets and toweling, beef, maize meal, protein foods, milk and roasted coffee. |
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The Namibian Agronomic Board this week resisted pressure to issue import permits for maize meal from South Africa. |
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Prices of maize will go up as a result of Government's decision to allow limited exports of maize and mealie meal. |
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In 1998, companies such as Novartis, Pioneer and Monsanto applied for granting approval for confined field trials of transgenic maize. |
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She became one of the founders of the field of maize cytogenetics, the genetic study of maize at the cellular level. |
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The contents of protein, sugar, starch and lysine in maize plant are critical to maize quality. |
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In the exodermis of sunflower, aliphatic suberin is more abundant compared to maize roots grown in aeroponics. |
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Surrounding their dwelling were maize plantations and vineyards, owned by a wealthy landowner. |
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Zambia, in the last three years, has not only been self-sufficient in food, but has managed to export maize to some neighbouring countries. |
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The idea is that a monkey inserts its hand, clenches it around the maize, and then cannot withdraw its clenched fist. |
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Following a traditional recipe, the scientists prepared the maize and analysed the contents. |
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In general, the same seed bed preparations are recommended for velvet bean as for maize, but a fine tilth is not essential. |
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High producing dairy herds are feeding equal parts maize meal, barley and wheat. |
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The maize fields were also expected to produce a good harvest, with enough maize for feed and export. |
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Since processed maize is highly cariogenic, dental caries and resulting tooth loss increase with the adoption of maize agriculture. |
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Then, with his staff, he stuck holes into the mud, and into each of these holes, he spread his maize. |
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They showed that rats fed on zein, the major protein of maize endosperm, died of protein starvation. |
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The Zimbabwean countryside was covered by immaculate maize and tobacco plants. |
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Earlier this year, the Zimbabwean government claimed it would be harvesting a bumper maize crop of 2.4 million tons. |
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We screened several hundred inbred and exotic maize lines for their tolerance to anoxia. |
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The dust was not caused by easterly winds, but rather when the maize was being levelled out in the ship's hold. |
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Farmers should not sell their maize to briefcase buyers who aim at nothing less than just exploiting them. |
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Cotton seed should not be planted behind the plough, as is the case when planting maize or groundnuts. |
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It studies the effects of growing modified maize, potatoes and oilseed rape commercially on farms. |
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He had five hectares of land, on which he grew rice and maize, and which was ploughed by horses. |
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Results presented in this study are in good agreement with those reported for other monocotyledons such as maize and rice. |
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Most of this maize was probably used for animal feed and thus entered the human food chain. |
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But she said she was expecting a good harvest from her maize crop some of which she hoped to sell and hopefully go to college. |
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Mr Kasukumya said he was, however, happy that people in his area continued to record bumper harvests in maize production. |
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Today, the major staple throughout Kenya is maize, which is an important cash crop as well. |
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The effect on poor countries, where maize is mostly used to make animal feed, is significant. |
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At night animals came out from behind the trees and destroyed the farmers' cassava, maize and cashew nut crops. |
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Competing crops like maize and cashew, however, yield Rs 9,000 per hectare. |
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Pineapples, sweet potatoes, beans, cassava, rice, groundnuts and maize are among the main crops. |
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Most villagers have a small plot of land on which they farm maize, groundnuts, cassava, millet, sweet potatoes, and other products. |
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But to eradicate malnutrition, we grow maize, beans, soya beans, sweet potatoes, cassava, pumpkins and many others. |
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They were very hardworking farmers and we used to buy cheap beans, rice, cassava, sweet potatoes and maize from them. |
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Game and fish were always sources of protein, and corn is eaten mainly in the form of thick cakes called arepas and maize gruel. |
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In maize, the stomium is located at the meeting point of the two loculi that make up each half anther. |
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The products include cashew, castor oil, palm, potato, soybean, green bean, peanut, maize, sweet corn and eucalyptus. |
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Cultivated Late Woodland plants included sumpweed, squash, sunflower, goosefoot, and maize. |
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Root membranes of maize and runner bean exhibit the lowest permeability coefficients for ABA known. |
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However, the economy is primarily agrarian, with principal crops of rice, sugar cane, maize, and wheat. |
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The ion flux occurs within seconds after gravistimulation and establishes pH gradients across roots and maize pulvini. |
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So far Argentina has approved crop trials for various cultivars of sunflower, maize, alfalfa, wheat, soya and potato. |
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The most common staple food is a thick porridge known variously as ugali, sadza, nsima, or posho made from maize or finger millet. |
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This is a region where one field can produce pumpkins, clover and maize, as well as, of course, grapes. |
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Other produce includes coal, coconuts, sugar cane, pineapples, tobacco, vegetables, sago, tapioca, coffee, tea, maize, and groundnuts. |
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The menu features hot and cold salads and starters including maize mozai and pastrami. |
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The maize situation has also been worsened by the ever increasing demand for the grain by opaque beer brewers and stockfeed manufacturers. |
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I used to grow large acreages of potatoes, onions, and soy beans, along with maize. |
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Sucrose synthase genes have been isolated primarily from starch-storing plants, such as maize, rice, barley, potato, mung bean, and pea. |
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In the early part of the 1800s, the area was extensively planted with maize, potatoes, kumara, taro, calabashes, melons and pumpkins. |
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Passengers were crammed inside, and roof-racks piled high with cases, luggage and sacks of maize. |
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Tortillas are infinitely versatile and usually made from corn or maize, but also from wheat. |
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Farmers may be forced to change from barley and wheat to maize as warming continues. |
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A similar phenotype has been observed in other species, including maize and sorghum. |
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Previous work with wheat and barley is extended to include experiments with maize. |
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Leaves from the transformed maize plants showed enhanced tolerance to the oxidative stress induced by incubation of leaf discs in the pro-oxidant herbicide, methyl viologen. |
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It used to be described as the bread basket of southern Africa, with neat fields of maize and soya growing in rich red soil and farmers notching up world records for yields. |
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There are about 800 water licences to extract Lachlan water, mostly belonging to family farms growing lucerne, wheat, hay and in recent years maize. |
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The aleurone is part of the triploid maize endosperm whereas the coleoptile, scutellum, scutellar node, and root are derived from the developing embryo. |
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In irrigated conditions, it can choose from sugarcane, maize, brinjal, chillies, mulberry, tomato, potato, turmeric, ginger, grapes, banana and betel. |
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There is compelling evidence indicating that, in some cereals such as maize, barley, rice, and wheat, cytosolic AGPase accounts for the major AGPase activity in the endosperm. |
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Environment Secretary Margaret Beckett approved cultivation of the herbicide-tolerant maize but rejected commercial cultivation of GM beet and oilseed rape. |
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The study predicts that the situation would become particularly critical for organic farming of the rape oilseed as well as for intensive production of conventional maize. |
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With his gluten-free menu, the emphasis is on breads made from different types of flour, such as millet, maize, sogram and gram flour, which are suitable for coeliacs. |
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Furthermore in ordinary maize, zeins contribute half of the total proteins, which is important for the study of gene products in in vitro systems. |
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He has three agricultural centres growing rice, corn, maize and peanuts. |
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Yet despite variable environments, new commercially available maize hybrids continue to be produced each year with ever-increasing harvestable yield. |
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Duarte owns a small plot of land where she grazes cattle and grows beans, maize, bananas, and oranges. |
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Its sustainability is unmatched by any cereal, even maize, and for exactly that reason a number of traditional farming systems cultivate maize and yam bean together. |
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For example, Mexicans are watching their traditional maize versions, or landraces, to see whether they'll pick up genes from the abundant U.S. crops of transgenic corn. |
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Sometimes food is barbecued bananas or goat satays, maize or cashews, all purchased through the bus window as we pass through small villages of thatched-roofed mud huts. |
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The current period constitutes the harvest phase for most cereals in Zambia including maize, which is coming on the market from small and medium-scale farmers. |
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The Commons environmental audit committee last week published a hard-hitting report saying the government must not give the go-ahead to commercial planting of GM maize. |
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Seeds of chickpea and maize were surface-sterilized for 30 minutes, pre-germinated in the dark in a Petri dish with adequate water, and were then planted in quartz sand. |
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This year Neville won 18 first and second place prizes for his grasses, which include maize, clover, corn, wheat and many more grown on his farm at Caniaba. |
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There are fields of maize and little plots of white daisies. |
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We also started boiling up the maize and storing this in huge bins ready for piling into the swims in front of the site to get the shoals of fish munching. |
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There, the farmers have helped transform the country into a self-sufficient food producer, to the extent that Zambia will this year export maize for the first time in decades. |
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Comparison of these sequences with those from modern day maize and teosinte samples confirmed modern alleles were present in Mexican maize some 4400 years ago. |
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The average small farmer in Chiapas, Mexico, for example, produces maize, squash, pumpkins, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, numerous vegetables, fruits and medicinal plants. |
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Plants grown from teosinte seeds were pollinated with maize pollen. |
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The farms of Nixons, Swantons, Alex's, Stranos and Newlands roads are growing a variety of crops including sugar cane, peanuts, tomatoes, melons, pumpkins and maize. |
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They also produce yields as much as 10 per cent higher than the best local hybrid maize varieties and are more tolerant of biotic and abiotic stresses. |
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In August, through the generosity of our church and friends, we were able to send money to buy 300 bags of maize and pay for transport and distribution. |
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In the interim, at least 150,000 tonnes of maize, about half of the anticipated shortfall of 300,000 tonnes will be imported as relief to affected families. |
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Jing and Hsiao found that of the growth zone of rapidly elongating maize leaves decreased by as much as 0.25 MPa during equilibration in the psychrometer. |
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It is not yet known whether consumer resistance to GM food crops, such as rice, wheat, and food maize will be an obstacle to the spread of those crops. |
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Some farmers were greenchopping the maize to feed their cows. |
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Girls returning from the maize fields, in their red gowns, white smock-frocks, and yellow or red headkerchiefs, stroll through the meadows like moving flowers. |
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Considerable efforts have been made to introduce the trait into crops such as maize and pearl millet by traditional breeding involving interspecific hybridization. |
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Agriculture was based on systems of hillside terracing and included the potato, quinoa, and maize, and the guinea pig, domestic dog, llama, and alpaca. |
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Early studies on sucrose mobilization from the vacuole of germinating maize scutellum cells alluded to the likely possibility of SuSy being tonoplast associated. |
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The worst-hit had been the maize crop, which registered a loss in 18,220 hectares of land, against the total cultivable land of 22,499 hectares in the district. |
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For example, beet and rape support more biodiversity than maize. |
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The farmers were stuck with over 7,000 of 50 kg bags of maize. |
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The maize in her two lima plot is already in its tasseling stage and according to her, green maize should be ready between late January and early February. |
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However, despite the increase in the monthly rate of inflation, there was a significant decline in the prices of food items especially maize meal and grain. |
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Chloroacetanilide herbicides are widely used for the control of annual grasses and broad-leaf weeds in a variety of major crops such as maize and soybeans. |
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Endrin is an insecticide which has been used mainly on field crops such as cotton, maize, sugar cane, rice, cereals, ornamentals, and other crops. |
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It was only discovered in 2002 that genetically modified maize had been coming into the country in unmilled food aid, unannounced, for several years. |
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The maize harvest, which begins in April, was expected to be 1.9 million metric tonnes but this had now been reassessed at 1.5 million metric tonnes. |
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Meanwhile, the price of maize and maize meal have gradually started to rise as was expected at this time of the year in both urban and rural centers. |
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It has reported huge unexploited oil and gas resources, but today agriculture is the backbone of the country's economy with coffee, rice and maize the main commodities. |
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Nafta is also said to have put 250,000 maize farmers in Mexico out of work, their smallholdings no match for the industrial farms of the American Midwest. |
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The country's main crops are olives, vines, maize and hard wheats. |
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The price for maize meal is expected to go up again on 11 March this year. |
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This result is consistent with observations for other species that show Al-stimulated organic acid anion release, including wheat, maize and buckwheat. |
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Cereals include wheat, rice, barley, oats, rye, maize, millet, and sorghum, all of which have been used as food since prehistoric times, and cultivated since antiquity. |
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Each representative is obliged to provide a band, abundant supplies of maize beer and alcohol, food, two bulls for the bullfight, and prizes for the best toreros. |
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Processing of maize further reduces the nutritive value by removing the outer layers of the kernels, which contain a significant portion of the nutrients. |
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Or the fact that the country's national strategic reserve of maize was sold off wholesale at cut-rate prices two years ago in a series of dodgy transactions. |
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The principal crops are wheat, maize, barley, sugar beet, potatoes, and grapes, while mineral resources include bauxite, brown coal, lignite, and copper. |
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The rich soils of Uganda are capable of producing a wide range of crops such as maize, cassava, groundnut, sorghum, pineapple, millet and other stable foods. |
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In Zambia and many African countries most of the foods eaten in the region like maize, cassava, millet, sweet potatoes were all brought by explorers and colonialists. |
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The differential localization of GA-like substances occurs between the lower and upper halves of gravistimulated shoots of oats, sunflowers and maize. |
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The smells of roasting maize, diesel fumes, and floral soap from the streets of Harare are still seared into my brain. |
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Over 90 percent of the population of nearly one million in Manica Province is engaged in production of maize and sorghum staples on small parcels of land called machambas. |
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Gish did not identify any wild rice, maize, or cucurbit pollen. |
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Sometimes maize is used for making what are called corn pones, which well illustrate the difference between bread made of wheat and bread made of a flour containing no gluten. |
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Staple foods in the developing world, particularly maize and groundnuts, are often contaminated with aflatoxins, metabolites of Aspergillus species. |
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On the other hand, he explained that the current hunger in his area was due to people concentrating on growing cash crops such as cotton instead of maize. |
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Other starchy foods include cassava, taro root, maize and plantains. |
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In late 1926, African workers fled from their positions as field hands on Portuguese-run maize farms in the central Mozambican districts of Manica and Chimoio. |
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They enjoyed abundant mineral wealth, stunning yields of maize and cacao, as well as strong and enduring ties to the Mesoamerican nobilities of Oaxaca and central Mexico. |
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Many of the maize varieties grown in the United States and Canada are hybrids. |
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Coarsely milled maize is termed cornmeal, but when finely milled and sifted it is called corn flour. |
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The brachiaria is made to germinate and emerge later than the maize, either by delaying its planting or by planting it deeper. |
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I found that we had nearly a hundred bushels of corn, including wheat, maize, and barley, to add to our store. |
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The authors Robert Lomas and Christopher Knight believe some carvings in the chapel to be ears of New World corn or maize. |
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Production of wheat and maize globally has been impacted by climate change. |
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Metallurgical products movement are more than one million tons per year and maize exports to Spain vary between 800,000 and 1 million tons. |
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In Mesoamerica, wild teosinte was domesticated to maize by 6,000 years ago. |
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People living in the area grow sugar beet, sunflowers, wheat, maize, tobacco, wine grapes and fruit. |
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Traders returned to Europe with maize, potatoes, and tomatoes, which became very important crops in Europe by the 18th century. |
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In parts of the arid south and west, pastoral families may replace rice with maize, cassava, or curds made from fermented zebu milk. |
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Spain began to sell opium, along with New World products such as tobacco and maize, to the Chinese in order to prevent a trade deficit. |
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Spanish explorers in the 1500s reported that the Mesoamericans mixed cocoa with water, maize, chili, and honey. |
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Sharif M, Khattak RA, Sarir MS Effect of different levels of lignitic coal derived humic acid on growth of maize plants. |
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Having done this, Manco Capac and his companion, with the four women, planted some land with maize. |
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It is said that they took the maize from the cave, which this lord Manco Capac named Pacaritambo, which means those of origin because. |
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The maize and cassava would result in population growth in the region and other parts of Africa, replacing millet as a main staple. |
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But instead of cracking open a tin of the golden maize, I prefer to celebrate with a delicious, fresh corn on the cob. |
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Holes are made for the seeds of crops such as sticky rice, maize, eggplant and cucumber are planted. |
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Maize streak virus, an endemic pathogen of native African grasses, was then carried to maize plants by viruliferous leafhoppers. |
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The elimination of Fusarium moniliforme infection in maize caryopses by hot water treatment. |
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Effects of dietary replacement of maize with malted or unmalted sorghum on the performance of weaner rabbits. |
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Development of the yeast flora of whole-crop maize during ensiling and during subsequent aerobiosis. |
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Although maize has been grown since man has cultivated the land, sweetcorn as we know it was developed in the 19th century. |
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