Sentences with phrase «breed a line of»

The New Mexico Chile Commission members made selections from 40 breeding lines of the original «NuMex Big Jim,» and six of the best - performing lines were chosen and re-tested.
Fortunately, an immunologist at Berkeley, David Raulet, had bred a line of mice incapable of expressing functional MHCI proteins.
To see exactly what the gene did, McPherron bred a line of mice that lacked it.
They told the breeder, and she stopped breeding that line of dogs.
The Plott family bred their line of cold - trailing brindle dogs for seven generations, the dogs distributing across the Smoky Mountains as their family grew.
They originated from dogs bred by the Reverend John Russell (1795 - 1883) who was also instrumental in breeding lines of smooth fox terriers.
The splitting of the Akita breed began shortly after World War II with two different breeding lines of Akita in Japan, the Dewa line and the Ichinoseki line.
Some breed lines of larger breed dogs are apparently more susceptible than others to osteosarcoma.
Petcurean's NOW FRESH Small Breed line of dog food has two new additional flavors.

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These are just some of the best practices, adapted appropriately for each company, that build a culture of high performance, breed innovation and, most importantly, produce a significant impact on bottom - line performance.
Around 200,000 years later, a small group from our own ancestral line ventured out of Africa and bred with Neanderthals.
In a world where so many leaders will stop at nothing to get elected to another term, rope in another client, book another gig, sell more products, or grow the bottom line, it still takes honesty and integrity to breed trust and credibility — the cornerstone of strong, long - term business relationships.
The bottom line is that this new breed of church planters looks at who the typical church rejects or shuns, and says, «Those are the people I want to hang out with.»
A slight and passing familiarity with Thomas» system, usually acquired secondhand and enforced as a party line, was almost bound to breed that kind of contempt that comes from bored students who know a little but not enough.
Furthermore, breeding across race lines has been practiced throughout human history; that is how we came to have such a motley assembly of peoples on the earth today.
But when they walk into this new breed of restaurant, they can tell the difference, and they know that even though they will stand in line, pay at the counter and carry their food on a tray, they can expect something better.
Of the 8 IRRI - bred varieties, 4 are high - yielding lines from the International Network for Genetic Evaluation of RicOf the 8 IRRI - bred varieties, 4 are high - yielding lines from the International Network for Genetic Evaluation of Ricof Rice.
Mutual protection of elite breeding lines marked a renewed collaboration between the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), signed at the PhilRice headquarters at the Science City of Muñoz, Nueva Ecija, on 3 April 2014.
A 2011 report from the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research found that between 1985 and 2009, IRRI varieties and breeding lines contributed, on average, 50 % of the annual yield increases in southern Vietnam and the use of new varieties increased Vietnamese rice farmers» income by US$ 127 per hectare (in 2009 values) per year during the study period.
From there, the researchers worked to create breeding lines for new varieties that would capture the original flavor of the chiles while making improvements to help farmers stay competitive.
IRRI is also sharing rice breeding lines with Burundi that are being tested at a number of IRRI field sites around the country.
Different games breed different line ups for sure of course..
Anyway, none of this would have happened without the offensive line, a.k.a. the Home Boys, all of whom were bred in - state.
Inbreeding by scab breeders and kennel owners has resulted in a deterioration of the line of many popular breeds such as poodles, Bedlingtons and boxers, sometimes creating a specific brain disorder, which means that the animal has to be destroyed.
Brussels - bred, Harrow - schooled and Paris - garbed, George Kanter is the U.S. fight game's hot line to Europe — a man of charm who has seen the sport prosper, wither and bloom again
Y is everyone so happy that utd lost, i would have rather had it we kicking their arse, although they did loose 4 - 0, which makes their 7 - 1 victory looked long gone and lost, although people might argue (as usual) no berbatov no rooney, but they had a pretty strong line up in my opnion with the likes of giggs, fletcher, chichrito etc... Well even if we do win the CC its nothing to go on ranting abt because the critics and other fans will hit us back saying well its just the carling cup a competition to breed young talent..
Royal Canin offers some of the best food for your chihuahua puppy in their breed - specific line, too!
Their Small Breed Mini Bits line comes in a savory beef and chicken flavor in small kibble pieces with a variety of shapes and colors.
Dogs have been selectively bred for thousands of years, sometimes by inbreeding dogs from the same ancestral lines, sometimes by mixing dogs from very different lines.
Designed for the higher calorie needs of large breeds, this dog food line comes in formulas for puppies, adults, older dogs, and a «light» formula if your canine companion needs to go on a diet.
Classical plant breeding uses deliberate interbreeding (crossing) of closely or distantly related individuals to produce new crop varieties or lines with desirable properties.
The intriguing thing to me about working in agricultural biotechnology at this moment is watching how a multitude of subdisciplines such as plant physiology, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, bioinformatics, and molecular and conventional breeding are blending into one big continuum where the lines begin to blur.
In a bottom - line result, the researchers concluded that protection increased the number of breeding pairs at Voyageurs by 37 percent; other factors accounted for the rest of the increase.
They developed experimental lines with and without the high protein gene by breeding the gene into two varieties of soybean and testing the lines for both protein concentration and yield.
They also plan to improve breeding programs by ensuring parental lines have the maximum number of repeats available in a given genotype, and to select for new variants with additional copies that may show superior resistance.
Indeed, the nearest healthy breeding population of jaguars is located 120 miles south of the line in Sonora.
Similar to identical twins, all animals of this breeding line are genetically identical.
Though it looks chaotic at first glance, this migration map, which shows the electronic tracks of 19 shearwaters created by UC Santa Cruz biologist Scott Shaffer in 2005, color - codes the various legs of their trek: light - blue lines track the birds during breeding season, yellow lines represent the northward journey, and orange lines show the winter feeding grounds and southward return.
Next, the scientists expanded their analysis to include 363 males representing 57 modern breeds (about one - fifth of all recognized modern breeds), giving them a comprehensive chart of which stallion lines founded these breeds.
In the study, the researchers used zebrafish lines that had been selected to be bolder by breeding fish that stayed still for a maximum of 50 seconds after being introduced into new surroundings, while shy fish — those that stayed still for more than 3 minutes when dropped into a new area — were bred to create a shy line.
Chu achieved this by breeding a genetically modified line of mice that produces large yet well - tolerated quantities of the Cas9 gene scissors.
«Nevertheless, this gene will be useful in combination with other STB resistance genes, and our study provides tools for rapid lab - based tracing of Stb6 in wheat breeding lines,» says Kanyuka.
«Apart from stallion lines in Northern European breeds, all stallion lines detected in other modern breeds derive from more recently introduced Oriental ancestors,» says Barbara Wallner at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna.
«One extremely bright glimmer of hope in the battle against Varroa mites is the selective breeding of lines of honey bees that exhibit strong mite resistance,» said Audrey Sheridan, entomology research and Extension associate with the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station.
One by one, he manipulated the receptor genes, breeding a new line of mice each time.
Young African Penguins, an endangered species that breeds in South Africa and Namibia, seem hardwired to follow signals up the coast (yellow lines) in search of anchovies (purple) and sardines.
The offspring and their descendants glow under blue light, showing that both genes were successfully bred into the line of cats and that the properties of the HIV resistance gene can be tested.
Van Schaik and Burkart began to suspect that the evolution of cooperative breeding might have paved the way for greater altruism more generally, and when they heard that anthropologist Sarah Hrdy of the University of California, Davis, had been thinking along similar lines, the trio decided to write a paper outlining their hypothesis (Evolutionary Anthropology, vol 18, p 175).
Of the three new books, Conor Mark Jameson's Looking for the Goshawk is perhaps the most in line with the new breed of nature writing, in that Jameson is as much a part of the story as the bird he is obsessed witOf the three new books, Conor Mark Jameson's Looking for the Goshawk is perhaps the most in line with the new breed of nature writing, in that Jameson is as much a part of the story as the bird he is obsessed witof nature writing, in that Jameson is as much a part of the story as the bird he is obsessed witof the story as the bird he is obsessed with.
«All of the results by breed, including housecats, can be downloaded through our publication so that people can promote the welfare and health of their cats and researchers can decide on further lines of study.
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