Sentences with phrase «bred cultivated varieties»
The carefully bred cultivated varieties, or «cultivars,» will cross pollinate with the landraces if they are grown closely together.
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The new rice was bred by successfully crossing (or mating) two different rice parents — the exotic wild rice species Oryza coarctata and rice variety IR56 of the cultivated rice species O. sativa.
A totally pure species would mean a value of 1.00, which is rather rare, as most cultivars (= cultivated varieties) contain genes from more than one species through breeding.
«Breeding from wild relatives is laborious and slow and by the time a gene is successfully introduced into a cultivated variety, the late blight pathogen may already have evolved the ability to overcome it,» said Professor Jonathan Jones from The Sainsbury Laboratory.
Growers around the world cultivate only three varieties of cacao, she says, because they usually can't afford breeding programs to create new fungus - resistant hybrids.
Markers are also being used to breed traits from otherwise discarded varieties back into cultivated crops.
cultivar Short for cultivated variety, such plants have been bred to exhibit particular prized traits.
If the plants were bred intentionally, they are referred to as cultivated varieties, or cultivars.
In the letter, NDSU relays that the public university was directed in 1998 by North Dakota state law to collect and cultivate feral, local wild hemp in order to begin breeding industrial hemp varieties that could best thrive in North Dakota's climate and meet the requirement of 3/10 of one percent THC or less in flowering tops.