Sentences with phrase «breeds with these genes»

However, not all breeds with these genes have been reported to be affected.

At Huffington Post Green: «Cattle are being bred with genes from their African cousins who are accustomed to hot weather.

Not exact matches

I suspect you are not carrying a set of good genes with reference to intelligence so you can not breed.

Wouldn't natural selection be more tuned towards finding the healthiest, most handsome, «richest» gene pool to breed with?

Instead, we run around du mbing the gene pool down, breeding with the neanderthals.

Today, in both countries, limited Wagyu stock means that Wagyu bulls are most often bred with females from another breed, like Black Angus, but their genes are so strong that the massive marbling comes through.

This dataset contains millions of genomic sequences from a diverse set of rice varieties that, when combined with phenotyping observations, gene expression, and other information, provides an important step in establishing gene - trait associations, building predictive models, and applying these models to breeding.

With consumer appetites shifting towards more «natural» offerings, there is renewed commercial interest in new non-GMO breeding techniques — such as gene editing — which have the potential to give rise to a range of products with enhanced quality and novel attribuWith consumer appetites shifting towards more «natural» offerings, there is renewed commercial interest in new non-GMO breeding techniques — such as gene editing — which have the potential to give rise to a range of products with enhanced quality and novel attribuwith enhanced quality and novel attributes.

«Using a new approach of combining molecular identification of the SPIKE gene and conventional breeding, we have developed rice, with the SPIKE gene, that has higher yield when compared with an equivalent rice without the gene,» Dr. Kobayashi said.

«Rice genetics is all about understanding the genes of rice so that we can develop new and improved rice varieties to help farmers produce more rice, with fewer resources and despite challenges like climate change,» said event convener, Dr. Eero Nissila, head of the Plant Breeding, Genetics, and Biotechnology Division at IRRI.

Beyond this, the unique power of GM lies in its ability to incorporate novel genes with useful traits for rice, including genes from plants and organisms unrelated to rice, into new rice varieties that can not be achieved using other breeding methods.

Once specific genes associated with beneficial traits are identified, they can be more efficiently transferred into new rice varieties using other breeding methods.

IRRI is exploring whether a recently discovered gene that affects gelatinization temperature could allow rice varieties with lower gelatinization temperature to be bred.

In Southern Europe, there may be more opportunities arising from some of the «brown breeds» with high initial levels of the A2 gene, but it will still be very hard to put together large pools of A2 milk.

His genes were common within the facility's breeding program, so he could not be allowed to mate with females because of the risk of inbreeding.

So Sandra Ryeom at the Children's Hospital in Boston and colleagues bred mice with three genes to find out if an extra copy gave them extra protection against cancer.

To get a better view of how this might occur, the researchers looked at gene activity in the anterior pituitary glands of foxes in a breeding program at the Institute of Cytology and Genetics in Novosibirsk, Russia, designed to study the evolutionary processes associated with domestication.

And the gene - editing technique CRISPR could soon let scientists tweak DNA with new speed and precision, leading to breakthroughs in crop breeding.

Pioneer Hi - Bred International of Des Moines, Iowa, and Dow AgroSciences in Indianapolis, for example, had invested heavily in developing a sunflower seed with a Bt gene that helps plants fight off insects.

Engineered organisms that can not breed with wild counterparts could prevent transgenic plants from spreading genes

Genes associated with tick resistance were identified in all five breeds.

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.

In fact, the FDA has ruled that because DNA is in every living organism, crops engineered with added genes are «substantially the same» as other foods and are no different from crops genetically modified through conventional breeding techniques.

«We are unpacking the entire DNA sequences of 50 influential animals then honing in on the genes associated with specific traits in order to capture the best genetics in the Brahman breed,» he said.

Liu's experiments began by breeding finches with a singular genetic mutation — the introduction of mHTT, the mutant human gene responsible for Huntington's disease.

Researchers looked for regions of each plant's genome that showed unusual patterns of variation consistent with past selective breeding acting on the VRN - D4 gene.

Replacing ordinary mosquitoes in the wild with genetically modified mosquitoes hasn't yet been attempted, though scientists have been working on «gene drive» techniques that cause DNA modifications to spread quickly into a wild population via ordinary breeding.

When the researchers bred some domestic tomatoes with their wild kin for several generations and restored the gene's function, the resulting varieties were tolerant of 24 - hour light, they report online today in Nature Communications.

The researchers bred two types of FOXP2 «knockout» mice: One group was homozygous, meaning the mice carried two copies of the disrupted gene; the second group was heterozygous, with one functional and one defective gene.

Aware of the ruling class's despotic regime, those with mutations become renegades who live underground and reproduce among themselves to breed humans without genetic enhancement, and without the weakness gene.

«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.

The researchers performed the studies using mice bred to carry gene alterations that disrupt the production of the same mitochondrial enzyme that is defective in patients with MMA.

But when hybrids go on to breed with each other, their offspring inherit different combinations of the original parent species» genes.

«It makes it much easier for researchers working with barley to be focused on attainable objectives, ranging from new variety development through breeding to mechanistic studies of genes.»

Geneticist Jiří Forejt of the Czech Academy of Sciences» Institute of Molecular Genetics in Prague wasn't looking for it when he caught wild mice and bred them with lab mice to study diversity of immune system genes.

«Once we find a good gene with good alleles, we can breed with it immediately,» he says.

The industry researchers identified thousands of genes associated with drought tolerance, then incorporated them into their hybrids through conventional breeding.

Responsible for this ability is a mutation in the DMRT3 gene, which was recently shown by a study with over 4,000 horses from different breeds.

The gene copies also hide natural variation in the wheat genome that could create opportunities to selectively breed plants with useful traits.

Mice bred to carry a gene variant found in a third of ALS patients have a faster disease progression and die sooner than mice with the standard genetic model of the disease, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers.

One was bred with Feng's altered gene.

It is known that the genes that accumulate the most mutations are linked to the tumor type, and we found this too, however we showed that the mutational spectrum of a tumor is determined by breed type,» says Dr. Ingegerd Elvers, a researcher with Professor Kerstin Lindblad - Toh at both Uppsala University and Broad Institute.

When Bäckhed and Gordon bred mice lacking a functional FIAF gene, the mice were more than 50 % flabbier than mice with the gene intact.

In mouse models of familial adenomatous, treatment with HIPP significantly reduced intestinal polyps and increased survival while mice bred without the CtBP gene lived twice as long as those with it.

The project came out of a collaboration with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory to identify gene pathways that could be used to breed crops with higher yields.

As people familiar with the controversy likely know, transgenic technology allows breeders to add genes for desirable traits to valuable breeding materials.

The lack of genetic differences in Namibian elephants could also be attributed to their long distance migrations; large home ranges; recent increases in population size and range; or gene flow provided by male elephants breeding with different groups of female elephants.

In a race with other scientists, Scottish researchers have bred mice with an altered gene which displays all the key features of cystic fibrosis, such as lung disease and digestive problems.

The samples were then analyzed with a technique called polymerase chain reaction (PCR), used to amplify specific nuclear «microsatellites» for statistically measuring gene flow between the different populations and subpopulations located in the western South Atlantic (Breeding Stock A) and the eastern South Atlantic and Indian Ocean populations (Breeding Stocks B and C, and the Arabian Sea humpback whale population, respectively).

In June, he and his colleague Thaddeus Stappenbeck argued in Nature that all mouse studies should use littermate controls: When studying the activity of a particular gene, breed mice with and without that gene by starting with heterozygous parents.