Sentences with phrase «between plant breeders»

The GOBii project hopes to bridge the gap between plant breeders and the available genomic resources to yield better crops, especially in developing countries.

This requires intensified collaboration between plant breeders and plant pathologists, which is one of the aims of the conference.

Not exact matches

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.

At the time the main concern for plant breeders was pollen movement between different strains of crops — if a variety of sweet corn was contaminated by pollen from a popcorn variety, then the resulting hybrid offspring would produce seeds that were unusable for market purposes or for selecting new varieties.

Plant breeders have preferred no branching over having too much branching, and it has been difficult to achieve something in between.