Sentences with phrase «for plant breeding»

COLLEGE STATION — 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.

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 first observation of correlation between isotropic growth and puzzle - like cell shape came from the Roeder Lab (Cornell University) and was then explored in collaboration with the Smith Lab (Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research).

In a 1987 Nature paper, a team led by plant geneticist Peter Meyer, then with the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, Germany, showed that inserting a maize gene into a petunia enabled it to produce the pigment pelargonidin and take on a salmon color.

The results, described in the 7 March issue of Nature, raise the possibility that nematodes and plants use some of the same equipment to fight drought, says plant physiologist Dorothea Bartels of the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, Germany.

«For German plant research, it is a catastrophe,» says Heinz Saedler of the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne.

Joost van der Burg, a researcher at the Centre for Plant Breeding and Reproduction Research in Wageningen, started dropping peas from a height of a few millimetres onto a sensor, called a force transducer.

«We are having to answer inquiries from farmers every day of the week,» says Manfred Dambroth of the Federal Research Institute for Plant Breeding and Crop Husbandry in Brunswick.

To unravel the mystery, George Coupland and colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, Germany, decided to study the effect of light on the protein.

«Genome editing technology is advancing rapidly; therefore it is timely to review the regulatory system for plant breeding by genome editing,» says Dr. Ishii.

Nuijten, E.H.A.C.P.; Janmaat, Leen and Lammerts van Bueren, E.T. (2013) New models for plant breeding: Key elements for collaboration within the food chain.

Not exact matches

A spokesman for the National Farmers» Union said: «British farmers should have the choice to access the best technologies, such as advanced plant breeding, to ensure they can remain competitive and produce quality food while protecting the environment.»

Humans have been breeding plants to have desirable traits for thousands of years.

Approached more and more by other dispensaries hoping to get a leg up in quality, the folks behind Pinnacle began offering their services not only as consultants for the physical breeding of plants, but for the entire infrastructure required to begin a new cannabis business.

-LCB- Project -RCB- COBRA: COBRA: Coordinating Organic Plant Breeding Activities for Diversity.

Lammerts van Bueren, E.T. (2010) Ethics of Plant Breeding: The IFOAM Basic Principles as a Guide for the Evolution of Organic Plant Breeding.

EUCARPIA - European Association for Research on Plant Breeding, ECO-PB - European Consortium for Organic Plant Breeding (Eds.)

«Scientific monitoring consistently shows that environmental water delivered to the Gwydir is providing food, habitat and breeding opportunities for many of the region's unique native fish, waterbirds, plants and wildlife.

Eero is the former head of IRRI's Plant Breeding, Genetics and Biotechnology Division (PBGB) and was the global leader for GRiSP Theme 2.

Using Commonwealth environmental water on the floodplain provides food, habitat and breeding opportunities for native fish, frogs, plants, waterbirds and other wildlife.

Beyond this, the unique power of GM lies in its ability to incorporate novel genes with useful traits for rice, including genes from plants and organisms unrelated to rice, into new rice varieties that can not be achieved using other breeding methods.

By selecting the best performing rice plants and using them to breed new rice varieties, rice farmers, and more recently rice breeders, have been changing the genetic composition of rice to generate new and improved rice varieties for thousands of years.

Each year OSA educates thousands of farmers and other agricultural community members, conducts professional organic plant breeding and seed production research, and advocates for national policies to strengthen organic seed systems.

National strategies have been implemented to accelerate research and its application in areas including biological control, crop rotations and polycultures.This has resulted in major changes in some of the goals of Cuban plant breeding and a search for more appropriate methods of participatory plant breeding.

At Clif Bar, the company is tackling the yield gap by investing in plant breeding, contributing to an agriculture fund that helps provide technical assistance to educate growers and investing in infrastructure that will help reduce the distance that organic producers must transport their crops from the farm gate to the aggregator or processor, which is a significantly longer distance than for most conventional producers, Dillion said.

As Capital first reported, the state Department of Environmental Conservation quietly posted a plan on its website this month that would involve closing the plant for up to 100 days in the spring and summer in order to mitigate damage to Hudson River fish populations during breeding season.

A 2014 report to the UK Council for Science and Technology, for instance, concluded that «it is not appropriate to have a regulatory framework that is based on the premise that GM crops are more hazardous than crop varieties produced by conventional plant breeding», citing two decades of extensive studies that have not revealed significant risks to human, animal or environmental health.

Last year, the Department of Environmental Conservation proposed closing the plant for up to 100 days in the spring and summer in order to mitigate damage to Hudson River fish populations during breeding season.

Professor Bruce Fitt, professor of plant pathology at the University of Hertfordshire, added: «This new understanding of plant defense through ETD suggests different operations of specific resistance genes which will help us to be more successful in breeding new strains of crops for resistance.

Only in recent years have advances in genomics — and understanding how genetics play out in whole organisms — made it realistic for crop breeders to be able to identify traits in wild plants and selectively breed them into domestic stock.

«The majority of nonscientists don't understand the process of conventional plant breeding,» Dale explains, «so it is very hard for them to understand GM.»

Pioneer Hi - Bred International of Des Moines, Iowa, and Dow AgroSciences in Indianapolis, for example, had invested heavily in developing a sunflower seed with a Bt gene that helps plants fight off insects.

It's the first fall - planted naked barley variety to be bred specifically for the region.

But patents are more restrictive, says Niels Louwaars, director of Plantum, a plant breeder's association in Gouda, the Netherlands: «When one trait in a plant is patented, you are in principle not allowed under the research exemption to use such materials for further breeding» without the patent holder's permission, he says.

Many universities would also lose out if they could no longer charge royalties for plant traits or breeding tools.

These insects breed quickly, require little space, food or water, and produce only minute amounts of excrement, which could serve as fertilizer for onboard plants.

In addition to its utility for answering basic scientific questions, Springer appreciates how genomics has made his work more relevant to other areas, such as plant breeding and physiology.

Singh's collaborator, Randall Nelson, the research leader of the ARS soybean / maize research unit, plants seeds from Singh's most promising experiments, grows the plants and distributes their seeds to other scientists, who screen them for desirable traits and conduct their own breeding experiments.

This information has a variety of implications for corn breeding as well as management practices like plant population.»

In 2011, Israeli researchers bred a strain of the plant loaded with CBD specifically for therapeutic use.

Researchers looked for regions of each plant's genome that showed unusual patterns of variation consistent with past selective breeding acting on the VRN - D4 gene.

Mitch Tuinstra, a professor of plant breeding and genetics at Purdue, likened Schulz's work with corn to what Norman Borlaug did for the development of high - yield wheat crops in the 1960s and 1970s.

They could already show that important crop plants such as tomato and sugar beet also possess a functional homologue of NILR1 — an excellent basis for further specific breeding.

(Ill - fitting because humans have been indirectly, and much less precisely, modifying plant and animal genomes for thousands of years via selective breeding, and evolution has been doing it for as long as there has been life on Earth.)

These ornamental plants, which provide essential oils for perfumes and cosmetics, have been bred mostly for their visual traits, and their once - strong scents have faded over the generations.

«During the past four decades, allergic diseases have become a global health problem,» says project leader Professor Dabing Zhang, who leads the University of Adelaide and Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Laboratory for Plant Science and Breeding.

«We hope better understanding of yeast will allow us to tailor these organisms for specific uses, much as we have bred better varieties of domesticated plants and animals over millennia,» says Borneman.

For instance it may help in the development of a vaccine or in modifying crop plants by screening out allergens during plant breeding,» says Professor Zhang.

«It could have significant implications for the way plants are bred or selected for improved or altered cellulose ultrastructural traits — which could impact industries ranging from cellulose nanocrystals to toiletries to structural building products.»

«It's a big drag,» said Susan McCouch, a professor of plant breeding and genetics at Cornell University who specializes in finding wild varieties of rice for breeding.