sugar beet
sugar beet
Definition
sugar beet
noun
a variety or cultivar of the common beet (Beta vulgaris) having a root with white flesh and a high sugar content, grown commercially as a source of sugar
sugar beet
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- modify: For example the makers of silver spoon sugar have decided not to use genetically modified sugar beet.
- grow: We're delighted to be able to continue growing sugar beet on our farms.
- use: Although it uses sugar beet as a case study, most of the topics will be familiar to farmers of other crops.
- include: Crops include sugar beet, potatoes, grain, grapes, tobacco, flax, hemp and wine.
- process: It is due to start production in early 2007 and will process sugar beet into bioethanol.
- soak: They also get bowls of grated sugar beet soaked with warm water and other special feed.
Preposition: as
- study: Although it uses sugar beet as a case study, most of the topics will be familiar to farmers of other crops.
Adjective modifier
- tolerant: On an average scenarios with genetically modified herbicide tolerant sugar beet led in an increased gross margin.
- transgenic: Over-wintering of transgenic sugar beet was found to be a source for dispersal of transgenic pollen [ 9 ] .
- gmht: Weed management for agricultural and environmental benefit in GMHT sugar beet.
- conventional: This is a lot more efficient and cost-effective than trying to kill them in conventional sugar beet or other spring crop.
- ready: Roundup Ready sugar beet, Norfolk, July 1997.
Modifies a noun
- pulp: Feed succulent food, eg soaked sugar beet pulp, to encourage water intake.
- grower: I have raised in Parliament the problems facing sugar beet growers due to the proposed changes from Europe.
- factory: July 10 th 1924 There is much interest in the proposal to build a sugar beet factory in the Bury st Edmunds areas.
- crop: Both viruses cause significant yield losses to the UK sugar beet crop.
- farmer: For the first time, sugar beet farmers in eastern England were presented with the prospect of reform of the EU import regime.
- feed: Molassed sugar beet feed, a high energy animal feed, is also produced in quantity at Allscott.
Preposition: from
- seed: The trials conducted in 2004 showed that plant stands of sugar beet from untreated seed increased considerably where methiocarb slug baits were used.
Preposition: for
- persistence: Monitoring field releases of genetically modified sugar beets for persistence of transgenic plant DNA and horizontal gene transfer.
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