Sentences with phrase «conventional breeding»

This line has been developed using conventional breeding techniques.

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

Genetic engineering approaches could be used along with conventional breeding and changes in farm management to help plants better survive environmental changes, they said.

Many scientists are trying to unravel the complex crop genetics that allows these crops to tolerate environmental extremes, and they hope to use conventional breeding methods to create varieties that perform even better.

These dogs are likely to be placed in conventional breed classes in one to three years.

Conventional breeding practices are more difficult with hybrid rice, making it more difficult to breed for qualities like disease or pest resistance.

Unlike conventional breeding, it can entirely prevent the inclusion of unwanted genes and associated traits.

Both companies used conventional breeding rather than genetic engineering to produce their seeds.

The oil palm industry is aggressively developing superior planting materials through conventional breeding and tissue culture.

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.

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.

(b) any plant, descended from the plant referred to in paragraph (a), that is the result of conventional breeding of that plant with --

We use a process called biofortification, which adopts conventional breeding to improve crops.

Monsanto and other companies have commercialized healthier oils derived from conventional breeding and are on track to commercialize improved biotech oils early in the next decade.

Conventional breeding thus could not be used to develop Golden Rice.

However, surveys of rice germplasm around the world failed to identify any variety that contain significant amounts of beta carotene, so conventional breeding programs could not be used to develop Golden Rice.»

We employ conventional breeding and new tools in genetics and genomics — such as marker - assisted selection — as well as genetic modification.

conventional breeding means all methods used to produce plants, excluding techniques that use gene technology.

With this knowledge, Gasser observes, humans may be able to create other varieties of seedless fruits, such as cherimoyas and tomatoes, that have so far defied conventional breeding techniques.

Natural variation exists in the levels of pectate lyase gene expression in wild relatives of cultivated tomato and these can be used for conventional breeding purposes.

As Montana's climate is projected to warm in the coming decades, spring wheat breeders at MSU are focusing on conventional breeding techniques to boost tolerance to drought and hotter temperatures in spring wheat varieties.

It was developed with conventional breeding but is one of the major crops, including corn and soy, that have been made GMO to resist roundup and other herbicides.

It was achieved by conventional breeding methods to provide an oilseed rape (OSR) oil with a specific fatty acid profile benefiting food processors, foodservice operators and consumers.

Breeders at IRRI and its partners use modern and conventional breeding methods to track down genes associated with these traits, create new and modern varieties, and release them to countries where these stresses occur.

This happens when inter-species crop hybrids are formed by cross-pollination (which is often the case in conventional breeding of major food or feed crops such as wheat or Triticale), or by the stresses of cold nights in Sicilian orange groves.

Some soybean varieties have resistance to the tiny parasitic worms through conventional breeding of naturally occurring resistance genes, but the current level of resistance is becoming less reliable.

Companies in the United States and in China are cloning livestock for breeding and for research purposes, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration found no significant differences between healthy clones and healthy animals from conventional breeding.

Mendel clarified the situation, but conventional breeding practices today, though stirred by developments like the green revolution's hybrids, would remain roughly familiar to farmers of a century ago.

«The reduced yield [trait] does not exceed the natural variation observed in regionally - adapted varieties of conventional corn,» the report says, adding that «Equally comparable varieties produced through conventional breeding techniques are readily available in irrigated corn production regions.»

Since none were found, conventional breeding programs could not be used to develop Golden Rice.

Such enhanced wheat could be available in 2007; Dubcovsky and others plan to release wheat varieties created using conventional breeding techniques to incorporate the gene within a year.

The banana has no natural resistance to the bacteria, and because culinary varieties are propagated vegetatively (meaning without seeds) it is extremely difficult to develop a hybrid through conventional breeding.

I was joking with my mentors once, saying that during their time, conventional breeding was the only method available.

In comparison, conventional breeding can transfer many genes, including those unintended for transfer or are unknown.

«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.

Using conventional breeding techniques — a slow and painstaking process — researchers developed an improved crucifer that yields a healthier oil, with low erucic acid and glucosinolates.

«Using conventional breeding we've reduced the gluten levels to 10,000 times less than regular barley which more than meets the World Health Organization's recommendation for calling a grain gluten - free,» CSIRO Principal Research Scientist Dr Crispin Howitt said.

Using conventional breeding we've reduced the gluten content in this grain over 10,000 fold, such that it more than meets the World Health Organisation's recommendation for classification as gluten free.

Our first focus, in line with global practice, is to adopt a conventional breeding approach.

Through conventional breeding, scientists scoured rice's rich diversity for a gene that gives flood - tolerance.

Conventional breeding is NATURAL.

If I used conventional breeding to produce a crop that was herbicide tolerant or GE to produce one, they would still be the same.

The genetic improvement of Musa using conventional breeding, and modern tools of molecular and cellular biology

As an alternative to conventional breeding, researchers used the gene - editing technology CRISPR to introduce a gene called UCP1.

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.

Plant breeders are also working to improve the performance of maize under environmental stress, using both conventional breeding and genetic modification.

The rise of precision farming, conventional breeding techniques aided by biotechnology, improved irrigation and genetically modified crops are all important in helping the world cope with its food challenges, said Godfray.

By manipulating TaR1 protein levels in wheat, either by conventional breeding or genetic modification in plants grown in laboratory controlled environments, the researchers demonstrated that they could activate the plant's defences earlier.