Sentences with phrase «plant breeders often»
Plant breeders often select these traits to reduce losses due to pests.
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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.
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.
A breeder can take 10 years to develop a resistant plant, but often bacteria can overcome that resistance in as little as six years.