Sentences with phrase «plant breeder zagipa»

So we've asked a horticulturist, an artist - gardener and a plant breeder to share their favorite shade garden plant combinations.

The plant breeder: Brent Horvath, plant breeder and owner of Intrinsic Perennial Gardens, in Hebron, Ill., discovered one of his favorite combinations while visiting a private garden.

Dragla, a Ridgetown College plant breeder and probably Canada's leading hemp specialist, just returned from a trip down under to work with the Aussies to develop hemp seeds that would grow well in a subtropical climate.

If Nepal wants to develop its own hybrid corn varieties in the name of local food and ag sustainability, it wouldn't take more than one university - trained plant breeder, a field site, and 5 to 10 years to produce productive hybrid varieties suitable for Nepal.

New cotton varieties from USDA plant breeder Todd Campbell improve fiber quality, which determines cotton value, improving grower revenues.

The sorghum was developed at the Clemson Pee Dee Research and Education Center in Florence by Advanced Plant Technology program leader and plant breeder Stephen Kresovich.

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, Philippines.

Worried about the impact of rising temperatures, a group at CIAT led by plant breeder Stephen Beebe examined more than 1000 bean varieties stored in gene banks.

«Heat tolerance is a very important trait for bean production in Central America and the Caribbean,» says James Beaver, a plant breeder at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, who was not involved in the study.

A plant breeder discovers his experimental crops have been «contaminated» with genes from a neighboring field.

The next step is to test the technology in the field, says Anthony Hall, a plant breeder at the University of California, Riverside.

In a large test field, getting exact numbers means hours or even days of labor for a plant breeder.

The sensors are attached to a repurposed bicycle wheel and handles that a plant breeder can easily push among plants in a field.

At the time, Tan Yap Pau was a plant breeder and researcher at United Plantations, a Danish palm - oil company based in Malaysia.

But despite these two tracks being completely separate, two recent rounds of interviews for clients on either side of this divide helped me recognize what a successful Indian plant breeder has in common with an equally first - rate American cell biologist: The passion they have for what they do still drives their career success a decade after leaving the academic lab.

When I asked Rajesh, the plant breeder, the «what got you into this field» question, he told me about the role agriculture played in his childhood.

In 1997, plant breeder Eduardo Fernandez of the University of the Philippines in Los Baños carried out the first greenhouse trials with the new corn in collaboration with Cargill Seeds, which was later bought by Monsanto.

Plant breeder Zagipa Sapakhova spent two months this summer studying tan spot and Septoria leaf blotch with SDSU small grains pathologist Shaukat Ali.

«Plant breeder boosts soybean diversity, develops soybean rust - resistant plant.»

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.

We are also, interested in improving our understanding of how this resistance works so we can do a better job of selecting for it,» says University of Illinois plant breeder, Brian Diers.

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.

His feature story about plant breeder Norman Borlaug appears in The Best American Science Writing 2010.

She said the CPP was against the plant breeder system as it would confine the nation to further dependency.

Few people have heard of Zhikang Li, but history may judge the Chinese plant breeder to be one of the most important people of the century.

With twice the flavor and nutrients at half the size, this new squash variety, developed by Cornell plant breeder Michael Mazourek with help from Barber himself, is not only adorable, it's the future of produce.

«For a plant breeder, that's really a shame,» he said.

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.

«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.

Once recognized, the plant breeder can submit a request to the Office of Control Substances to include it on the list.

Protect specialized forms of intellectual property with industrial design, integrated circuit topographies and plant breeder's rights.

But again technology provided a solution, largely due to the work of a plant breeder from Iowa named Norman Borlaug.

Plant breeders selectively develop cultivars with varying degrees of heat.

«NuMex Twilight» also has become an important source of cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) resistance for plant breeders.

During my time, more tools became available for plant breeders to transfer genes of interest and improve selection efficiency.

While I have been working with fellow plant breeders, I now enjoy working with new partners from the nutrition community.

But for a brief moment, my colleagues and I were content just to savor the feeling that we plant breeders get after an experiment is successfully completed, and dream of a golden future for all.

Plant breeders have discovered that a single gene, the SUB1 gene, confers resistance to submergence of up to 14 days.

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.

Canadian plant breeders had worked on developing it for years with rapeseed — another Brassica — as their starting point.

Plant breeders of the Ministry of Agriculture: John Kibanda (coordinator for the National Rice Research Program - KATRIN, Atugonza Bilaro (ARI - Tumbi), D. Deodatus Kisandu (ARI - Uyole), Sophia Kashenge (ARI - KATRIN), and Hezron Tusekelege (Dakawa Research Center).

«Importantly, for plant breeders, rice has an extraordinarily diverse genetic resource base that spreads across at least 24 different species of rice.»

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Currently, the plant breeders are introgressing the Bt gene into farmer - preferred lines and are evaluating their acceptability and suitability for local environments.

The ACCC has authorised «royalty managers for plant breeders to collectively negotiate with the grain buyers they engage to collect royalties on their behalf.»

And plant breeders are using MAGIC to produce rice varieties that can thrive under every conceivable inhospitable condition.

Company plant breeders develop Breeder Seed and Foundation Seed for specific varieties.

Plant breeders often select these traits to reduce losses due to pests.

Plant breeders from across the subcontinent who want to keep up with advancements in the discipline shared their training needs with WorldVeg.

The 6th Parliament of the 4th Republic has failed to pass some key bills including the Right to Information Bill, the Plant Breeders Bill and Intestate Succession Bill.