Sentences with phrase «crop improvement»

They use a systematic seed - growing process, which begins with crop improvement associations in each state.

Large seed companies have their own internal process which mirrors the one used by crop improvement associations.

The centers work to facilitate crop improvement, with the goal of increasing plant yield, nutritional value and resilience in the face of climate change.

Other partners include the U.S. Department of Energy, and educational and training programs at the West African Centre for Crop Improvement in Ghana and Makerere University in Uganda.

«The study of plant roots has been largely neglected by agricultural researchers in crop improvement until recently.

Not only GM, but all methods of crop improvement, may pose a risk.

In terms of energy consumption, inputs used on farm and farmers» participation, the collaborative effort towards crop improvement under low - input conditions was much more efficient in terms of energy use (see table below).

Chapter 22 — Plant - Microbe Interaction and Genome Sequencing: An Evolutionary Insight — Krishna K. Sharma — Crop Improvement Through Microbial Biotechnology

With support from several partners, IRRI is developing new hybrid rice varieties, and in another project tries to generate widely accessible databases on crop improvement and track the diffusion of rice varieties.

Lead author Dr Ari Sadanandom, in the Durham Centre for Crop Improvement Technology, Durham University, said: «The foundation of global food security is built on three cereals, wheat, rice and maize, and wheat is the leading source of vegetable protein in human food.

Future crop improvement needs the genetic variation from traditional varieties and related wild species to cope with the many biotic and abiotic stresses that challenge rice production around the world.

Professor Kulvinder Gill, the Vogel Chair for Wheat Breeding and Genetics, is working to better understand the wheat genome and manipulate it for crop improvement using modern techniques and tools.

Traditional crop improvement seeks broadly adapted genotypes to give best average performance under a standard management regime across the entire production region, with some subsequent manipulation of management regionally in response to average local environmental conditions.

The researchers, at the University of Adelaide in Australia and the Institute of Crop Sciences in the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Beijing, have identified a specific gene in soybean that has great potential for soybean crop improvement.

The finding by an international team of researchers that includes professors Rony Swennen and Dirk De Waele (Laboratory for Tropical Crop Improvement) bodes well for the Grande Naine, the export banana par excellence, which is very susceptible to the roundworms.

CSIRO manages more than 50 research centers working on everything from crop improvement to astronomy.

The corporation funds nearly 100 postgraduate students, working in areas such as crop improvement, soil structure and animal care.

Moncada knows genetic insights will expedite crop improvement.

Funding for the research was provided mainly by the United Soybean Board and partially by the Partnership for Research and Education in Plant Breeding and Genetics program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Ag Alumni Seed, AgReliant Genetics, Beck's Hybrids, ConAgraFoods, Dow AgroSciences, Indiana Crop Improvement Association and Pioneer Hi - Bred International.

His group are in interested in generating new variation through interspecific hybridizations and induced polyploidy to support crop improvement strategies and are examining the potential of epigenetic variation.

Though the benefits of using grafted transplants are now fully recognized worldwide, understanding the rootstock - scion interactions under variable environmental pressures remains vital for grafting - mediated crop improvement.

«I also want to make sure we are integrating phenomic and genomic technologies into our applied crop improvement programs using sorghum and other crops as examples.»

«We are extremely proud of the contributions he has made and how this chair will increase his global visibility and impact, as well as that of all the Texas A&M crop improvement faculty.»

The S.C. Crop Improvement Association Review Board approved four Roundup Ready varieties of soybeans, nine sorghum varieties suitable for bioenergy and eight cotton varieties jointly released with the U.S. Department of Agriculture research center in Florence.

Annotation of genomes — determining the genetic sequence and gene functions — of plants that are important to farmers in these regions would help speed crop improvement.

Last year the Organic Crop Improvement Association in Lincoln, Neb., certified that some Chinese bamboo, including that used by Hebei Jigao, meets the U.S. Department of Agriculture's organic standards.

For the past two decades, promises of crop improvement have been the domain of genetically modified plants: mostly, crops supplemented with bacterial genes to resist pests or weedkillers like Roundup.

Dr. Bill Rooney, a Texas A&M AgriLife Research sorghum breeder in the Texas A&M department of soil and crop sciences in College Station, has been appointed as the first holder of the Borlaug - Monsanto Chair for Plant Breeding and International Crop Improvement.

The endowed chair is to recognize a global leader in crop improvement and through that, to elevate Texas A&M's role in leading the world, Sams said.

Renaud, E.N.C; Lammerts van Bueren, E.T.; Paulo, M.J.; Eeuwijk, F.A.; Juvik, J.A.; Hutton, M.G. and Myers, J. R (2014) Broccoli cultivar performance under organic and conventional management systems and implications for crop improvement.

Today at Avery Island, the site of the original tabasco growing and manufacturing operation, there are still fields of Tabasco under cultivation — but mostly for crop improvement and seed production.

It is multiplied into Foundation Seed, which is controlled by the crop improvement association.

Additional keywords: crop improvement, crop modelling, G × E, genotype by environment interaction, plant breeding, trait simulation.

Sixteen projects have been formed under this agenda, with a focus on upstream research for crop improvement, future intensive rice systems, and others.

The varieties, which are now waiting to be gazetted by the National Seed Council, were developed by the West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI), University...

«Despite their potential value in meeting the challenges of modern agriculture, few systematic, range - wide collections of wild relatives exist for any crop species,» the team of scientists write, «and even the available wild genetic resources are widely under - utilized for crop improvement.»

«Knowing that the trainees will return with several new tools for crop improvement in Rwanda is one of the most fulfilling experiences of my career.»

The new and improved wheat assembly will help wheat breeders accelerate their crop improvement programmes and researchers to discover genes for key traits such as yield, nutrient use and bread making quality.

This week, the world's largest agricultural research organization — the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)-- is expected to adopt a statement recommending that its 16 member institutes ban use of the technology in their crop improvement projects.

This work provides new insights for understanding the genetic basis of domestication and diversity of this important crop, and provides guidance for breeders to harness genetic variation for crop improvement.

The barley genome sequence also enabled the identification of regions of the genome that have been vulnerable to genetic bottlenecking during domestication, knowledge that helps to guide breeders to optimize genetic diversity in their crop improvement efforts.

«Because of Amborella's pivotal phylogenetic position, it is an evolutionary reference genome that allows us to better understand genome changes in those flowering plants that evolved later, including genome evolution of our many crop plants — hence, it will be essential for crop improvement,» stressed Doug Soltis of the University of Florida.

For example, plant breeders working to develop crops that can resist pests and diseases or higher temperatures often look to the broad range of plants and traditional crops in primary regions of diversity as sources of useful traits for crop improvement.

Assistance and guidance is available to farmers through the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, the Ontario Federation of Agriculture and the Ontario Soil and Crop Improvement Association.