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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.