Sentences with phrase «breeder plant breeding»

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Theresa has been an active member of the Northern Plains Sustainable Agriculture Society's Farm Breeding Club, working to develop farmer - breeder partnerships to address the plant breeding and plant variety improvement needs of organic Breeding Club, working to develop farmer - breeder partnerships to address the plant breeding and plant variety improvement needs of organic breeding and plant variety improvement needs of organic farmers.

«I am delighted with our success in breeding a Golden Rice version of Bangladesh's most popular rice variety, BRRI dhan29, which we hope will make a substantial contribution to reducing vitamin A deficiency across the country,» said Dr. Alamgir Hossain, principal plant breeder at BRRI.

I learned about planting and growing crops, breeding, genetics, and other important agricultural subjects only when I entered the Bangladesh Agricultural University to become a plant breeder.

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 coconut.

By selecting the best performing rice plants and using them to breed new rice varieties, rice farmers, and more recently rice breeders, have been changing the genetic composition of rice to generate new and improved rice varieties for thousands of years.

But in the comfort of a laboratory and a greenhouse, a plant breeder can create a wild peanut hybrid capable of breeding with the cultivated peanut.

Only in recent years have advances in genomics — and understanding how genetics play out in whole organisms — made it realistic for crop breeders to be able to identify traits in wild plants and selectively breed them into domestic stock.

But patents are more restrictive, says Niels Louwaars, director of Plantum, a plant breeder's association in Gouda, the Netherlands: «When one trait in a plant is patented, you are in principle not allowed under the research exemption to use such materials for further breeding» without the patent holder's permission, he says.

«Since we know that plant breeders have bred for yield, we have a theory that a lot of the genes have increased in selection over time.»

Plant breeders at universities and seed companies have invested thousands of man - years in breeding crops resistant to diseases since that time.

«This is great news because preharvest sprouting is a very difficult trait for wheat breeders to handle through breeding alone,» said Bikram Gill, university distinguished professor of plant pathology and director of the Wheat Genetics Resource Center.

In an article from MSU News, Dr. Luther Talbert, a spring wheat breeder in MSU's Department of Plant Sciences and Plant Pathology, states that «The goal of the spring wheat breeding program is try to be steps ahead of what's next... There are always pests and diseases, but climate and temperature changes are variable and hard to forecast.

IRRI is now free to seek plant breeders» rights, patents and all manner of IPRs on its breeding lines and varieties, whether conventional seeds, hybrids or GMOs.

With multiyear field studies, Xue identified plant traits related to drought tolerance, which can be used by breeders to develop drought - tolerant wheat cultivars and geneticists to screen molecular markers and speed the breeding process.

The project is part of the USDA's focus on supporting research in plant breeding, genetics, and genomics to improve crops, identify and address threats from pests and diseases, and, create new technologies and tools for plant breeders.

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.

It all started in 2003 when Dr. Wing and Dr. Scott Jackson, a professor, GRE Eminent Scholar, and Director of the Center for Applied Genetic Technologies at the University of Georgia, initiated a collaboration with Dr. Darshan Brar, former IRRI plant breeder and Head of the Plant Breeding and Genetics Division during a visit to IRRI headquarters in Los Baños, Philippplant breeder and Head of the Plant Breeding and Genetics Division during a visit to IRRI headquarters in Los Baños, PhilippPlant Breeding and Genetics Division during a visit to IRRI headquarters in Los Baños, Philippines.

Plant breeders had stopped working on maize a couple of decades earlier because maize, a plant which easily cross-pollinates, was not compatible with the new Mendelian genetics - based breeding sysPlant breeders had stopped working on maize a couple of decades earlier because maize, a plant which easily cross-pollinates, was not compatible with the new Mendelian genetics - based breeding sysplant which easily cross-pollinates, was not compatible with the new Mendelian genetics - based breeding systems.

According to a press release, the Puppy Mill Awareness Group said it conducted its own investigation, revealing that The Family Puppy has worked with breeders from Minnesota, Missouri, Indiana and Ohio in 2009 and 2010, and that an inspector from the United States Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA APHIS) found unacceptable conditions for breeding dogs at one of the store's breeders.

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