11.   For years plant breeders have attempted, with varying degrees of success, to breed such characteristics into new crop varieties, eg, mildew resistance in cereals.

12.   Sunflowers have already caught on in France and now a handful of farmers are trying their luck with the new crop here.

13.   He says he was keen to try a new crop, and dwarf sunflowers ripen in time to harvest in late summer.

14.   With this in mind, the company has been investing money in planting new crops before the threat of a ban becomes reality.

15.   Already, a new crop of street performers, by nature an itinerant lot, have taken over their spots.

16.   Also on the agenda will be finding ways to help tobacco farmers switch to new crops and restricting international marketing and domestic advertising.

17.   Although the health care industry has been reluctant to embrace computing, a new crop of startups is springing up to offer health-related information to online consumers.

18.   Although many shady dealers have been shut down after federal and state investigations, a new crop sprouts every year in preparation for the peak of application season.

19.   And despite the controversy surrounding CCA Prison Realty, the new crop of trusts may prove more attractive to investors than their failed predecessors.

20.   And now a whole new crop of choreographers is about to be unleashed on the world in an unusual work created by Taylor and six of his dancers.