Sentences with phrase «cultivars through»

The avocado tree is only partially self - pollinating, which has favored the development of different varieties and cultivars through selective breeding.
Improvement of New Mexican chile cultivars through breeding and genetics is a major research thrust at New Mexico State University (NMSU).
The new breeding work raises the prospect of mixing such desired attributes as resistance and quality in a single T. cacao cultivar through careful crossbreeding.

Not exact matches

A totally pure species would mean a value of 1.00, which is rather rare, as most cultivars (= cultivated varieties) contain genes from more than one species through breeding.
Through the years as vineyard practices developed, cultivars were planted in soil and at slopes best suited to them.
Canola oil comes from the canola plant — a cultivar of rapeseed — and you may have seen the bright yellow flowers in farmers» fields if you've driven through rural North America.
Currently, beans can be found in countless varieties and hundreds of specialized cultivars, created mainly through selective breeding in order to produce beans of a specific color, size, shape, or starch content.
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