Sentences with phrase «controlled by single genes»

Because disease organisms mutate quickly to overcome crop resistance controlled by single genes, researchers are rushing to identify new resistance genes and to incorporate multiple genes into high - yielding varieties, according to Ravi Singh, CIMMYT wheat scientist who participated in the reported study.

But human altruism can not possibly be controlled by a single gene, and different genes that might produce altruistic behavior probably interact, making the kin selection equation quite a bit more complicated.

These traits are controlled by a single gene that is ultimately located on a single chromosome pair.

Conditions that are controlled by a single gene fall into one of four inheritance patterns.

Not exact matches

This trait is caused by the accumulation of large amounts of β - carotene that was reported to be controlled by a single recessive gene ore.

In a sign of the method's power, Pritchard's team also detected selection in traits controlled not by a single gene, but by tiny changes in hundreds of genes.

Allan - Herndon - Dudley syndrome is caused by defects to a single gene that controls the flow of thyroid hormone to the brain.

Dr Ton added: «Plant immunity that is controlled by a single resistance gene, on which most conventional breeding programs are based, is comparably easy to overcome by a pathogen.

RESCUE and REVERSE are two separate randomized, double - masked, sham - controlled pivotal Phase III trials designed to evaluate the efficacy of a single intravitreal injection of GS010 (rAAV2 / 2 - ND 4) in subjects affected by LHON due to the G11778A mutation in the mitochondrial ND4 gene.