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monoculture

[ UK /mˈɒnə‍ʊkˌʌlt‍ʃɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the cultivation of a single crop (on a farm or area or country)

How To Use monoculture In A Sentence

  • These species are under an unusual selection regime in that their hosts are often isogenic and planted in monoculture.
  • They rotate their crops, thereby helping the soil to recover from centuries of monoculture under sugarcane.
  • We've seen the best kind of solutions to climate change aren't about adding a single gene or stacking a bunch of genes into a crop and proceeding with the idea that a monoculture is a good thing. Paula Crossfield: Reclaiming Value: An Interview with Raj Patel
  • Soil can be seeded within monoculture grass, or trees can be planted widely apart so that they do not become roosts for mynas and starlings.
  • Heirloom plants can also help buck the trend of monoculture, in which one variety is grown in vast fields.
  • We have here a lesson not only in secure decentralization, but the security of polyculture, superior to the insecurity of monoculture.
  • After a while, heather monoculture is broken by an intake field and our path leads to a shallow valley that is a mosaic of ground-cover greens and is curlew country.
  • So, if the "monoculture" is responsible for the current recession, doesn't that also imply that that same monoculture is responsible for the vast and incredible wealth, and subsequent increases in freedom, health, and human rights, produced over the past, say, 100 years? Monoculture Is Bad For Business - Anil Dash
  • A stable and balanced agrarian economy had degenerated into precarious monocultures and backwater towns.
  • I dunno, the * title* of the post says that monoculture is what's bad for business, and yet the only defensive responses I've gotten have asked "Why are you blaming white men? Monoculture Is Bad For Business - Anil Dash
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