1.   How can crop varieties be improved?

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

3.   Ellstrand estimated that up to a third of all crop varieties are pollinated by insects.

4.   A fig can be left upright and protected if it is a main crop variety or if winter temperatures dip no lower than about zero degrees.

5.   It consisted largely of grants from patrons such as the Rockefeller Foundation to scientists to develop new crop varieties with increased yields.

6.   It is these crop varieties that contain most of the genetic raw materials from which breeders work.

7.   Monsanto has developed dozens of new crop varieties either by itself or in conjunction with university researchers.

8.   The faster a company can get a new crop variety to market, the faster it can cash in.

9.   Farmers must determine what they need and not be dictated to by researchers testing new crop varieties, which was common practice during the Green Revolution, he said.

10.   He said the Kansas State research with soybean protein involves chemistry that dates back decades but was adapted to focus on making plastics from current Kansas crop varieties.