Sentences with phrase «as plant breeding»

As plant breeding becomes more sophisticated, so does measuring the results of large field experiments.

In addition to its utility for answering basic scientific questions, Springer appreciates how genomics has made his work more relevant to other areas, such as plant breeding and physiology.

The people I met ranged from fellow students to senior researchers, and from people interested in agricultural science, such as plant breeding, to people working on the social and economic aspects of agricultural development.

Not exact matches

A spokesman for the National Farmers» Union said: «British farmers should have the choice to access the best technologies, such as advanced plant breeding, to ensure they can remain competitive and produce quality food while protecting the environment.»

The water - efficient and nitrogent - efficient maize projects in Africa are using plant - breeding methods, as well, but genetic engineering can provide further boosts to productivity.

Approached more and more by other dispensaries hoping to get a leg up in quality, the folks behind Pinnacle began offering their services not only as consultants for the physical breeding of plants, but for the entire infrastructure required to begin a new cannabis business.

Lammerts van Bueren, E.T. (2010) Ethics of Plant Breeding: The IFOAM Basic Principles as a Guide for the Evolution of Organic Plant Breeding.

We do this by helping improve plant breeds, better manage increasingly scarce resources such as water, and keep pests and diseases at bay.

As a rule of thumb, plant breeders in both public research institutes and private companies use genetic engineering only in the following situations: 1) the gene of interest is not found within the crop gene pool, 2) if found in the gene pool, transfer will be difficult due to incompatibility and other breeding problems or 3) the transfer of the gene will take a long time as in the case of perennial crops like coconuAs a rule of thumb, plant breeders in both public research institutes and private companies use genetic engineering only in the following situations: 1) the gene of interest is not found within the crop gene pool, 2) if found in the gene pool, transfer will be difficult due to incompatibility and other breeding problems or 3) the transfer of the gene will take a long time as in the case of perennial crops like coconuas in the case of perennial crops like coconut.

Dr. Alfonso opened his presentation by relating the importance of plant breeding and nutritional enhancement as a breeding objective.

However, modern plant breeding has removed that distinction as hot bell varieties and sweet Jalapenos have now been bred.

As Capital first reported, the state Department of Environmental Conservation quietly posted a plan on its website this month that would involve closing the plant for up to 100 days in the spring and summer in order to mitigate damage to Hudson River fish populations during breeding season.

Lane and his colleagues found that both farmers who have been involved in GM crop trials and those who have not, regard GM as a simple extension of previous plant breeding techniques, such as those which have produced today's established crop types.

«There are also skills shortages in areas of expertise such as plant and crop breeding, plant physiology and pest management, large animal physiology and health, soil science, and horticulture,» she says.

A new understanding as to how plants defend themselves against some pathogens that cause crop diseases is proposed by researchers from the University of Hertfordshire to help scientists breed new, more successful disease - resistant agricultural crops.

The intriguing thing to me about working in agricultural biotechnology at this moment is watching how a multitude of subdisciplines such as plant physiology, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, bioinformatics, and molecular and conventional breeding are blending into one big continuum where the lines begin to blur.

Transgenic plants are plants that have been genetically engineered, a breeding approach that uses recombinant DNA techniques to create plants with new characteristics.They are identified as a class of genetically modified organism (GMO).

The flies and fungi use the same plants as breeding grounds and eat the same foods.

The space isn't only confined to pharma either, as science company DuPont also formed alliances with Lithuania's Vilnius University and Caribou Biosciences, with a specific interest in plant breeding and agricultural applications.

These insects breed quickly, require little space, food or water, and produce only minute amounts of excrement, which could serve as fertilizer for onboard plants.

As the world struggles to feed a growing population, shrinking maize plants through breeding might increase yields

This information has a variety of implications for corn breeding as well as management practices like plant population.»

To help improve crop breeding strategies and overcome challenges such as making plants more tolerant of marginal lands, and stresses such as drought and low nutrient availability, researchers are focusing on understanding and promoting beneficial plant - microbe relationships.

They could already show that important crop plants such as tomato and sugar beet also possess a functional homologue of NILR1 — an excellent basis for further specific breeding.

(Ill - fitting because humans have been indirectly, and much less precisely, modifying plant and animal genomes for thousands of years via selective breeding, and evolution has been doing it for as long as there has been life on Earth.)

«We hope better understanding of yeast will allow us to tailor these organisms for specific uses, much as we have bred better varieties of domesticated plants and animals over millennia,» says Borneman.

«They could serve as breeding grounds and seed banks for many animal and plant species that otherwise may be unable to find habitat due to climate change.»

It also has applications in plant breeding by increasing the precision of markers for traits such as malting quality or stem rust.

Using techniques collectively known as molecular breeding, geneticists have started to return results in a variety of plants, said Ed Buckler, a plant geneticist at Cornell University who recently helped sequence the corn genome.

Understanding drought - responsive signaling and the molecular and biochemical mechanisms of drought tolerance in model plants such as Arabidopsis and rice provide new insight into how to develop drought - tolerant crop plants through conventional breeding or biotechnological approaches.»

Gould noted that as conventional plant breeding has become a more high - technology practice, the line separating GE and non-GE crops has blurred.

One additional side benefit for having a few milkweed plants in a field of corn is that it serves as a breeding place and food source for monarch butterflies.

«All approaches so far to breed salt - tolerant plants must be considered more or less as failures,» says Professor Rainer Hedrich, plant scientist at the Julius - Maximilians - Universität (JMU) Würzburg in Bavaria, Germany.

The ultimate outcome of their work might be not only the breeding of quinoa varieties with an even higher salt tolerance but also the crossbreeding of salt tolerance genes into related crop plants such as sugar beets or spinach.

CERA's database of safety information includes not only plants produced using recombinant DNA technologies (e.g., genetically engineered or transgenic plants), but also plants with novel traits that may have been produced using more traditional methods, such as accelerated mutagenesis or plant breeding.

Plant breeding will also play a role in allowing cereal growers get to grips with the septoria challenge, as will improved agronomy.

As the keynote speaker for the 2018 Borlaug Global Rust Initiative Technical Workshop, in Morocco, April 14 - 17, Barro will talk about CRISPR - Cas9 technology, gluten - free wheat and the future of plant breeding.

Every individual grass plant, every fish, every pure - bred dog, every ant is as different from another of its species as two human neighbors are.

The team compared plant features such as the amount of tillers and grains per spike to those grown under regular greenhouse conditions, finding that often the speed bred plants came out on top.

Dr. Bill Rooney, a Texas A&M AgriLife Research sorghum breeder in the Texas A&M department of soil and crop sciences in College Station, has been appointed as the first holder of the Borlaug - Monsanto Chair for Plant Breeding and International Crop Improvement.

COLLEGE STATION — Dr. Bill Rooney, a Texas A&M AgriLife Research sorghum breeder in the Texas A&M department of soil and crop sciences in College Station, has been appointed as the first holder of the Borlaug - Monsanto Chair for Plant Breeding and International Crop Improvement.

As a result, «you get this ever - expanding gap between elite varieties developed by well - funded private breeding programs and varieties developed for farmers in the developing world by public breeding programs,» said Kelly Robbins, former GOBii director who recently joined Cornell's faculty as an assistant professor of plant breeding and geneticAs a result, «you get this ever - expanding gap between elite varieties developed by well - funded private breeding programs and varieties developed for farmers in the developing world by public breeding programs,» said Kelly Robbins, former GOBii director who recently joined Cornell's faculty as an assistant professor of plant breeding and geneticas an assistant professor of plant breeding and genetics.

If the plants were bred intentionally, they are referred to as cultivated varieties, or cultivars.

As new plants are introduced they are being bred more specifically for certain characteristics or market needs.

The retailer also offers more traditional aquatics supplies, as well as tropical fish and plants, many of which are bred in - store.

There ARE breeds of dogs, as there are of other domestic animals (as there are varieties of plants).

Although they were bred for beagling (hunting with their noses), they are also used as scent dogs to find drugs at airports, dogs to find plants at border crossings, search and rescue dogs, and, since they are usually healthy, they are used in a lot of labs.

Entirely free of plant protein concentrates, ACANA Puppy Small Breed is loaded with 70 % meat — up to twice as much as most pet specialty dog foods.

Do not fall into the trap set by low - quality pet food manufacturers who sell breed - specific formulas that offer low to moderate nutritional value at best — these manufacturers also tend to make use of non-nutritive fillers to bulk up their products as well as plant - based proteins to increase the protein content without actually adding more meat.

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