Sentences with phrase «breeding efforts in»

Galvanized by public concern, the Territory of Hawaii organized a breeding effort in the 1930s to save what would later become the state bird.

Not exact matches

You can always substitute effort for skill and experience, secure in the knowledge that, over time, incredible effort will absolutely breed skill and experience.

Put another way, this sport confounds sheiks and scions of American dynasties who drop millions of dollars in futile efforts to breed a Kentucky Derby...

In an effort to improve his farming operation, he diligently experimented with new crops, fertilizers, crop rotation, tools, and livestock breeding.

The new campus is meant to unite under one roof workers who have been housed at disparate offices, in an effort to breed collaboration and inspiration.

I wish you good luck in this effort of giving birth to a new breed of independent and bold stock investors.

As a Chicago born - and bred family business, we understand that your online efforts are an investment in your future.

Aliens will come to earth and remove the deserving humans which have been successfully breeding for thousands of years in an unknowning effort to repopulate the slave supply for the Master Race.

«A lack of genetic variation in rice has hindered efforts by conventional breeding programs to address iron levels.

The Brewers Association has signed an agreement with the United States Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service (USDA - ARS) to fund public hop breeding for the purpose of developing and releasing disease resistant aroma hop cultivars into the public domain, in support of hop growing efforts throughout the U.S..

You can't pamper players in this day and age, competition breeds effort and progress.

the league cup is a fantastic breeding ground / step up (from the reserve leagues) for our youngsters to get the big game experience, and show wenger they are ready to take a top spot in the first team, sooner than later the further they advance the more impressive they will look, and they get a decent trophy for all there efforts.

In an effort to eliminate potentially dangerous breeding sites, the New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) is reminding...

The ability of the species to breed in captivity, based on information gathered from zoo breeding records and captive breeding programmes, was also of interest because easy - to - breed species would be of lower priority when determining where to focus antitrading efforts.

Efforts to reintroduce the bee have been thwarted by failures in captive breeding and by «bee jet lag» — the inability of long - haul bees to adapt to the sudden hemisphere shift.

Gentry added that the researchers hypothesize that corn yields can be further increased in a sustainable way, even beyond the results demonstrated in this study, with continued crop breeding efforts, advancements in fertilizer formulations and placement technology, and possibly, with the development of effective plant growth promoters, she said.

Horse breeding records are some of the most impressive efforts to chronicle animal lineages in human history, with some stretching back thousands of years.

The genes of 50 top bulls have been sequenced in an effort to understand how genes from temperate cattle have influenced important production traits in the modern Brahman breed.

MLVs so dependably cause cancer in lab - bred mice — especially leukemia and lymphoma — that a small fraternity of scientists at the NCI and elsewhere has fruitfully studied these viruses since the 1960s in an effort to understand how human cancer begins.

Agricultural scientists such as Edgar McFadden and Norman Borlaug — who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 — have led efforts to breed cultivars of wheat resistant to infection by rusts.

«We had to find out if the last known male in China no longer produces viable sperm due to old age or an inability to inseminate the female,» said Dr. Gerald Kuchling, organizer of the artificial insemination effort and Rafetus breeding program leader for the TSA.

M: Well, y» know, I think, y» know, success breeds success in recruiting... if you get some good results, people just come without a lot of effort on my part.

Scimitar - horned oryx were hunted to extinction in the 1990s, but are now returning to the wild, thanks to breeding in captivity and reintroduction efforts in Chad

And the poisoning of vultures in Asia that threatened to wipe out the three scavenging bird species of the Indian subcontinent has been checked through a combination of replacement drugs in livestock and captive breeding efforts, says ornithologist Nancy Clum of WCS.

Herculean conservation efforts — carving out nature reserves, establishing captive breeding programs, pumping water into swamps in dry years — have done little to shore up the tortoise's future in the wild, which is why Mitchell and her colleagues have turned to assisted colonization.

In subsequent breeding efforts, the breeders can quickly determine if new cultivars carry that trait or other useful traits for the next generation of cacao trees.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) last year reclassified the giant panda as vulnerable — indicating in their report that current conservation efforts are working; however, they acknowledged that panda breeding still remains a problem.

Native Americans cultivated sunflowers to use for food, medicine, and dye, says Lentz, and their breeding efforts produced tall, single - headed plants with big seeds that are rich in nutrients and easy to harvest.

Despite concerted efforts, scientists have been unable to convince blue tangs to breed in captivity.

Although bearded vultures are not considered endangered worldwide, they have been almost completely extirpated from their historic central European range — the 125 breeding pairs in Spain are the result of 30 years of concerted repopulation efforts.

«This is why breeding efforts have been so successful in maize.»

Vidal and CIRVA's scientists also feared that discussion of captive breeding would undermine efforts to extend a temporary ban on gillnetting in the vaquita's range which the government imposed in 2015.

Rare breed Past efforts to breed Sumatran rhinos in captivity have been spectacularly unsuccessful.

The Common Tern is most widespread tern species in North America, but its breeding colonies in interior North America have been on the decline for decades despite conservation efforts.

The authors point out that although conservation and breeding work in the world's zoos is an important effort, it should not take focus from the needed efforts to preserve the natural habitats of endangered animals.

New research to resolve stem rust epidemiology in the region and additional efforts in breeding for rust resistance is urgently needed.

Whether the effects are positive or negative, an individual's prospects tend to be limited within its group of birth, and many individuals leave in an effort to establish new breeding groups.

Sal's aviary will aid in breeding efforts for new Passenger Pigeons.

Captive - bred axolotls are frequently used in biological research, both to learn from the animal's remarkable ability to regenerate body parts and to help inform conservation efforts.

Their four - year efforts have made very significant progress in breeding for durable resistance against blast in rice varieties that are adapted for Africa, have set the stage for continental surveillance of the disease, and developed a robust collection of resources for outreach and awareness creation.

«Our breeding efforts have intensified again because there is a growing interest in the restoration of these horses,» says Dr Monika Reissmann from the Department for Crop and Animal Sciences at Humboldt University in Germany.

He is Director of Genetics at the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research and oversees research efforts in cell culture and cryobanking, cytogenetics, population genetics, conservation breeding, evolution and systematics, and applications of genomics technologies to conservation efforts for managed and wild populations of threatened and endangered species.

EEHV is the leading cause of death in juvenile Asian elephants born in North America and is a major factor impeding efforts to establish robust breeding groups in captivity.

Tinder hopes to save Sudan's species from extinction by raising $ 9M to fund in - vitro efforts in lieu of natural breeding to save the northern white rhino.

Marvin (Karl Geary) has had his immune system ravaged by Strickler's Disease — he's a child, in essence of the pestilence that inspired the creation of the «Judas Breed» of insect that got out of control, Jurassic Park - like, in the first film, learning to mimic mankind in an effort to make us their primary prey.

Because this is a studio effort that knows what it's doing — a rare breed these days — it makes you wonder how many close - ups and long scenes are squandered in other studio releases.

Indeed, at the turn of the 19th century, the first Office of Education (OE), by virtue of its placement in the Interior Department, spent more effort administering the breeding of Alaskan reindeer than driving or disseminating education research.

It's pretty much par for the course, where hurried efforts to adopt a new enthusiasm wind up disappointing in practice, breeding cynicism and adding fuel to the ceaseless search for the next big thing.

In an effort to find a new royal bride, Hans Holbein was sent to mainland Europe to paint portraits of various women of good breeding stock, from which Henry selected Anne (sister to the Duke of Cleves, a small Duchy in the North - West of modern day Germany, close to the border with HollandIn an effort to find a new royal bride, Hans Holbein was sent to mainland Europe to paint portraits of various women of good breeding stock, from which Henry selected Anne (sister to the Duke of Cleves, a small Duchy in the North - West of modern day Germany, close to the border with Hollandin the North - West of modern day Germany, close to the border with Holland).

Significant efforts are also being made in using color display technology for the new breed of e-readers, though such a technology is not yet production ready and is not likely to be so until mid or later half of 2010.