Sentences with phrase «difficult for plant breeders»

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Creating drought - tolerant plants has proved to be a difficult challenge for plant breeders.

«This is great news because preharvest sprouting is a very difficult trait for wheat breeders to handle through breeding alone,» said Bikram Gill, university distinguished professor of plant pathology and director of the Wheat Genetics Resource Center.

It's difficult and time - consuming for coffee breeders to stir up the plant's gene pool with traditional cross-breeding techniques, because Coffea is a perennial; developing a new strain can take something like 25 years.