Sentences with phrase «conventional breeding practices»

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

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.

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Those approaches should include modern conventional plant - breeding methods, sustainable and organic farming, and other sophisticated farming practices that do not require farmers to pay significant up - front costs.

At Monsanto, the practice has become so common that, in a recent paper, the firm said «molecular marker assisted breeding is becoming our conventional breeding process,» noting that many of its commercial crops are derived with the process.

Gould noted that as conventional plant breeding has become a more high - technology practice, the line separating GE and non-GE crops has blurred.

The UCS study found that while crop yields of DroughtGard did decrease crop losses by 6 % and would increase overall US corn production by 1 %, conventional crop breeding has been increasing drought tolerance by about 1 % per year for the past 10 years, while this conventional breeding combined with improved farming practices has been able to increase corn production by 1.5 - 2 % annually.