Sentences with phrase «plant breeders in»

Plant breeders in Canada finally hit upon the right formula in the late 1970's using seed splitting.

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.

Not exact matches

I'm not saying that evolution or adaption doesn't occur on a small scale — it certainly does — and is observable and measurable within certain limitations as any professional breeder in plants or animals will attest.

Sunner is one of the largest breeders, processors and suppliers of chicken products in China and owns some of the largest vertically integrated modernised chicken farms, feed mills and processing plants.

«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.

The start of the first Green Revolution in rice, Zeigler thought back, could have been in July 1963 when IRRI's first breeder, Peter Jennings, found F2 (second - generation) rice plants from a set of 38 crosses involving dwarf rice varieties from Taiwan.

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The current absence of regulation for these new technologies in many parts of the world means that genetically modified plants and animals can be released in the environment with no risk assessment and no information for breeders, farmers and consumers.

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

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

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.

Only few plant mutations are known to give plants with white spots on their leaves, and they are known primarily in the small plant thale cress (arabidopsis), and hence plant breeders are interested in developing new types.

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 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.

Because patents play a bigger role in plant intellectual property in the United States, breeders are more hemmed in than in Europe.

The new peanut genome sequences were released in 2014 to researchers and plant breeders around the globe.

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 MonsantIn 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 Monsantin Los Baños carried out the first greenhouse trials with the new corn in collaboration with Cargill Seeds, which was later bought by Monsantin collaboration with Cargill Seeds, which was later bought by Monsanto.

«This is an extremely important crop with major problems,» says study co-author Gert Kema, a plant pathologist and banana breeder at Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands.

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.

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.

As a result, they often evolve valuable traits that plant breeders could use to create varieties able to resist pests or maintain yields in the face of global warming.

Plant breeders, especially in the developing world, are scarce, and the time to develop new varieties is running out.

The science may be there, but the money isn't Traditionally, plant breeders scan fields in search of favorable traits in crops and collect seeds of the best varieties to save.

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

His specimens host a number of traits that plant breeders would want to see in oil - palm trees.

The team on the three - year study includes plant pathologists, breeders, crop nutrient managers, economists, weed scientists, entomologists and outreach specialists from Texas, Arkansas and Washington, D.C. Research on organic rice has been in progress at the AgriLife Research facility in Beaumont for at least five years, Zhou said, and results from those studies, along with some from other areas, will be parlayed into the new study.

«Plant breeders, growers should pay attention to flush in fight against citrus greening disease.»

For example, plant breeders working to develop crops that can resist pests and diseases or higher temperatures often look to the broad range of plants and traditional crops in primary regions of diversity as sources of useful traits for crop improvement.

In Malaysia, independent smallholders get planting material that has been validated by the MPOB from trusted oil - palm breeders, but that layer of quality control doesn't exist in IndonesiIn Malaysia, independent smallholders get planting material that has been validated by the MPOB from trusted oil - palm breeders, but that layer of quality control doesn't exist in Indonesiin Indonesia.

A new paper from scientists at the John Innes Centre in Norwich explains why plant breeders have found it difficult to produce wheat varieties which combine high yield and good resistance to Septoria, a disease in wheat which can cut yield losses by up to 50 %.

The resource, a collection of wheat seeds with more than 10 million sequenced and carefully catalogued genetic mutations, is freely available to wheat breeders and researchers, and is already aiding in the development of wheat plants with improved traits.

To maintain food security, wheat breeders are working to develop plants that offer more nutritional value, have greater yields, and can thrive in a changing climate.

In nature, however, plants are never exposed to only one stress at a time, so breeders have also taken an interest in the plants» capacity to resist multiple environmental stresseIn nature, however, plants are never exposed to only one stress at a time, so breeders have also taken an interest in the plants» capacity to resist multiple environmental stressein the plants» capacity to resist multiple environmental stresses.

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

By repeatedly crossing plants with the darkest color, turf breeders can improve the appearance of a grass like Poa supina in just a few generations.

The work represents «a really nice collaboration between molecular biologists and plant breeders,» says Jan Leach, a plant pathologist at Colorado State University in Fort Collins.

the new information enabled the researchers to clarify aspects of the barley genome that are important in the context of genome evolution and for practical use of genome knowledge by plant breeders and basic researchers — namely, the locations of gene - rich regions including some that have low recombination

And she says it's important for plant breeders like herself to keep in mind that the traits they select for in plants — such as heat in peppers — might have disadvantages under certain conditions.

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

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

With this information, corn breeders could someday build more durable resistance in future hybrids,» says Santiago Mideros, plant pathologist in the Department of Crop Sciences at the University of Illinois.

This fresh evidence could help scientists and breeders especially in arming crop plants against a swathe of emerging diseases.

«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.»

The evidence of the success of early rice farmers on the vast wetlands near the Guaporé River in Rondônia state, Brazil, could help modern day plant breeders develop rice crops which are less susceptible to disease and more adaptable to the effects of climate change than the Asian varieties.

«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.

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.

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

«Understanding where FT is located and how it coordinates with other flowering factors is important to breeders; it's useful for breeders for the fine manipulation of flowering times,» said Qingguo Chen, the paper's first author and a research associate in the lab of Robert Turgeon, the paper's senior author and professor of plant biology in the College of Arts and Sciences.

It allows plant breeders to take a desirable trait (like resistance to drought, insects, weeds, and disease) from one plant or organism and transfer it to the plant they want to improve, as well as make a change to an existing trait in a plant they are developing.