Sentences with phrase «public plant breeding»

To identify solutions, researchers gathered in Raleigh, North Carolina, last year for an Intellectual Property Rights for Public Plant Breeding summit.

Not exact matches

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.

China's plant breeding research is mainly conducted in the public sector, and researchers are not always in close contact with the companies that sell and trade seeds.

The recommendations come amidst growing concern about the future of public - sector plant breeding programs.

In June 2015, Clif Bar & Company announced a plan to raise $ 10 million by 2020 to fund the nation's first endowed chairs in organic plant breeding at public universities in the United States.

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 genetics.

Under the newly proposed law, anyone who owns and breeds more than 4 female dogs which are listed for sale on the internet, over the phone, or by mail, must either obtain a license (and make themselves available to the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service) OR, they must open their doors to the public, allowing buyers to see and inspect animals before purchasing.