Wax gourd is extremely pest-and disease-resistant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 9] Reference

He's talked about his illnesses, so he's hardly disease-resistant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flinx In Flux]

Pest - and disease-resistant strains also indirectly help water efficiency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fight Droughts with Science] Reference

We find that the Chinese are in general more disease-resistant than the Japanese.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943] Reference

He says such a possibility is being explored in developing disease-resistant groundnuts.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The industries claim that by creating disease-resistant grains, more people will be fed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love and Rage Electronic Edition Part 2] Reference

Unlike the highly selected modern breeds, it is self-reliant, robust, and disease-resistant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 3] Reference

Grow disease-resistant oats (Farmers 'bulletin/United States Department of Agriculture) by T.    From Wordnik.com.  [Group Praises Portions of USDA's New TB Plan But Strongly Opposes Zoning That Usurps States' Rights] Reference

Developed to be disease-resistant, the HZPC potato has 30 percent fewer carbs than regular spuds.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Atkins Dieters Rejoice!] Reference

The disease-resistant tomatoes developed for Florida are mixed together in a variety trial packet.    From Wordnik.com.  [2: Vegetables and small fruits in the tropics] Reference

Some European consumers fret about the potential dangers of disease-resistant corn and pest-proof soya.    From Wordnik.com.  [High-Tech Harvests] Reference

On the one hand, triticale benefits indirectly from the ongoing production of disease-resistant wheats.    From Wordnik.com.  [8 Research Needs] Reference

The seeds of the disease-resistant beans you supplied are smaller than the seeds we receive from Arizona.    From Wordnik.com.  [3: Staple crops] Reference

The health and diversity of the original African stock has spawned a strong, disease-resistant generation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saving The Rare Rhinos Of Bohemia] Reference

Bioengineered foods are genetically altered in laboratories to make them more insect - and disease-resistant.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Saturday Morning News: Kraft Recalls Taco Bell Shells - September 23, 2000] Reference

Already in this country there are thousands of these seedlings growing which are apparently disease-resistant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association, report of the proceedings at the eighth annual meeting Stamford, Connecticut, September 5 and 6, 1917] Reference

Turf-type tall fescue varieties are wear-tolerant and disease-resistant and can be mowed higher, up to 4 inches.    From Wordnik.com.  [A thick lawn can be yours with just a few steps] Reference

Barramundi are ideal for farming -- docile, fertile, disease-resistant, and can live primarily on vegetarian feed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter Hanlon: Fish as Food, Fish as Wildlife: Four Fish (a Book Review)] Reference

All Papua New Guinea varieties are susceptible, but some disease-resistant varieties have been found in Indonesia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

GMO pest and disease-resistant crops only work by using a specific chemical compound companies like Monsanto make.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reviewing F. William Engdahl's Seeds of Destruction (Part III)] Reference

The collar should not be cut off because this tissue forms a rapidly growing, disease-resistant callus over the pruning cut.    From Wordnik.com.  [5. How plants live and grow] Reference

Should we find no tree in all this huge area which is disease-resistant we have at least one hope in the chestnut brought from.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association, report of the proceedings at the eighth annual meeting Stamford, Connecticut, September 5 and 6, 1917] Reference

It would also be disease-resistant, have more productive trees and, one assumes, fall when ripe into the waiting hands of growers.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Apple A Day Keeps The Genetic Engineers Busy] Reference

So, we developed a variety that emanated from the heirloom tomatoes, and we crossed them with disease-resistant qualities into it.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 4, 2005] Reference

We asked Dr. Phillip Miklas, who sent us the disease-resistant varieties, the following questions on the potential of tepary beans.    From Wordnik.com.  [3: Staple crops] Reference

We once read that a farmer in the Philippines was able to multiply his cash income 15 times by planting disease-resistant tomatoes.    From Wordnik.com.  [1: Basics of agricultural development] Reference

ECHO offers two types of tomato seed: open-pollinated disease-resistant varieties, and trial samples of a hybrid heat-tolerant variety.    From Wordnik.com.  [2: Vegetables and small fruits in the tropics] Reference

The discovery of Zea diploperennis, a disease-resistant relative of maize, in 1977 triggered the study of the vegetation in the Sierra.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt pine-oak forests] Reference

Dr Borlaug passed away only last month aged 95 leaving, as his legacy, 80 million hectares of high-yielding disease-resistant wheat crops.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir John Crawford Memorial Address] Reference

Is there an advantage for people in extremely arid zones in using the selected disease-resistant varieties over other (larger-seeded) ones?.    From Wordnik.com.  [3: Staple crops] Reference

Dr. Julia Kornegay at CIAT has crossed popping bean varieties with disease-resistant common beans and sent the progeny to Peru for testing.    From Wordnik.com.  [3: Staple crops] Reference

If diseases are a problem, choose disease-resistant varieties, and do not feel bad if this includes hybrid varieties rather than heirlooms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Makenna Goodman: You Can Be an Urban Farmer!] Reference

They are the most productive and disease-resistant heirloom sweet peppers.    From Wordnik.com.  [courierpress.com Stories] Reference

The lab is working on developing disease-resistant oysters, locally known as Cape May salts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press of Atlantic City: Editorials] Reference

The project will also see the planting of 470 new trees including 52 disease-resistant elms.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

But even the relatively disease-resistant Warrior gave over 1t/ha response to the programmes.    From Wordnik.com.  [FWi - All News] Reference