Sentences with phrase «crossed cultivated varieties»
To find the gene behind the color change, Powell and colleagues crossed cultivated varieties of tomatoes with wild species.
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What is extra special about this breakthrough is that O. coarctata is extremely difficult to cross with cultivated rice varieties.
The new rice was bred by successfully crossing (or mating) two different rice parents — the exotic wild rice species Oryza coarctata and rice variety IR56 of the cultivated rice species O. sativa.
The carefully bred cultivated varieties, or «cultivars,» will cross pollinate with the landraces if they are grown closely together.
By selecting those plants with dark green shoulders and crossing them back with the cultivated varieties, they narrowed down the culprit to a region on chromosome 10.