Sentences with phrase «closest wild relative»

While corn and soy don't have close wild relatives in the United States, canola, another widely planted GM crop, does.

For example, the genus Canis — which is Latin for «dog» — includes all domestic breeds of dog and their closest wild relatives, including wolves, coyotes, jackals and dingoes.

However, there has been a lot of research done on this subject and we do know quite a bit about the diets of the dog's closest wild relatives such as the wolf, coyote, and fox.

Not exact matches

Vines bend under the weight of massive tangles of wild grapes, and two introduced bands of Przewalski's horses — the closest living relatives of Europe's original horses — roam free.

Poached ivory fetches at least $ 165 million a year in Asia while our closest living relatives — great apes like chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans — are being kidnapped from the wild and sold to private collectors.

Their future survival depends on a broader gene pool which includes not only earlier cultivars, but also material from wild varieties and the closest relatives of a species.

Japanese star anise (Illicium anisatum), a close relative, is severely toxic and has poisoned people who picked it by mistake, so it would be unwise to harvest this one in the wild.

The location made sense: Wild European rabbits from the Iberian peninsula and France are the closest genetic relatives to pet rabbits.

Thus far, the DiPalma group has sequenced DNA from over 90 strains of domestic ferret as well as other wild species of ferret, including the Siberian Polecat, the closest relative to the Black - footed Ferret, which is also susceptible to Sylvatic Plague.

Rome & Bonn, also Nairobi About Blog Keeping a close eye on biodiversity in agriculture, including crops, livestock and wild relatives, for food security and sustainability.

Territoriality in dogs is a behavior trait passed down from their closest relative, the wolf, and other wild canines.

Have you met your cat's closest relative, the African Wild Cat?

As evacuees have streamed into temporary shelters or moved in with relatives, animals — including wild monkeys as well as dogs and farm animals such as pigs, chickens and cows — have been left in the danger zone close to the volcano that is most at risk of cascading ash, rocks and hot gas.

Rome & Bonn, also Nairobi About Blog Keeping a close eye on biodiversity in agriculture, including crops, livestock and wild relatives, for food security and sustainability.

Rome & Bonn, also Nairobi About Blog Keeping a close eye on biodiversity in agriculture, including crops, livestock and wild relatives, for food security and sustainability.