Sentences with phrase «science of plant breeding»

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Hybrid: The History and Science of Plant Breeding by Noel Kingsbury.

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The people I met ranged from fellow students to senior researchers, and from people interested in agricultural science, such as plant breeding, to people working on the social and economic aspects of agricultural development.

A 2014 report to the UK Council for Science and Technology, for instance, concluded that «it is not appropriate to have a regulatory framework that is based on the premise that GM crops are more hazardous than crop varieties produced by conventional plant breeding», citing two decades of extensive studies that have not revealed significant risks to human, animal or environmental health.

«There are also skills shortages in areas of expertise such as plant and crop breeding, plant physiology and pest management, large animal physiology and health, soil science, and horticulture,» she says.

Digital plants like these are part of a new movement in agricultural science called «in silico,» where researchers design highly accurate, computer - simulated crops to help speed up selective breeding, in which plants are chosen and replanted to amplify their desirable traits.

«During the past four decades, allergic diseases have become a global health problem,» says project leader Professor Dabing Zhang, who leads the University of Adelaide and Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Laboratory for Plant Science and Breeding.

At Kumho Life and Environmental Science Lab in Kwangju, for example, 10 of its 55 workers are paid by the program and work alongside full - time employees to crystallize proteins, breed transgenic plants, and conduct studies on environmental stress signals.

A feature review, to be published on December 16th in the Cell Press journal Trends in Plant Science, points the way to intensifying agriculture sustainably by fixing weaknesses that have sprung up quite by accident in the process of traditional crop breeding over the course of thousands of years.

A commentary published on 30 January in the leading science journal Nature Plants highlights the importance of an ancient grass species for wheat breeding.

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.

The grant's co-PIs include: Carmen Catala, a senior research associate at BTI; Zhangjun Fei, a USDA - ARS scientist, and adjunct associate professor in the Plant Pathology and Plant - Microbe Biology section in the School of Integrative Plant Science (SIPS); and James Giovanni, also a USDA - ARS scientist and adjunct professor in the Plant Breeding and Genetics section, SIPS.

Nina has experienced science on a global scale; she worked for the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research in Italy where she provided advice on the integration of molecular genetics techniques into conservation and plant breeding activities.

I have a master of science in the plant sciences with a minor in plant breeding.

A Horticulturist is a person who is involved in the science and research of plant cultivation through genetic engineering, plant breeding, crop production, cutting tubers and planting of seeds.