Sentences with phrase «for wild relatives»

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Concerns have been raised about the potential effects of transgenic introductions on the genetic diversity of crop landraces and wild relatives in areas of crop origin and diversification, as this diversity is considered essential for global food security.

«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.»

For example, the domesticated tomato is at least 100 times larger than its wild relatives.

But they also collected wild relatives of chickpeas in southeastern Turkey that hold «great promise,» von Wettberg says, as a source of new genes for traits like drought - resistance, resistance to pod - boring beetles, and heat tolerance.

Research in families of wild seabirds reveals for the first time how parasite infection in some can have a serious effect on how well their relatives do.

This sample of recent environmental films includes looks at the ecological effects of roads and top predators, the impact of climate change on a native village in the Arctic, a search for seeds of wild relatives of staple foods, and the fate of solar panels from Jimmy Carter's White House.

Famously clever animals like chimps and monkeys seem to grieve for dead comrades, but now even wild relatives of pigs called peccaries have been seen mourning

Scientists have known for decades that some wild, perennial soybean relatives had desirable traits that many hoped to introduce into soy, Singh said.

Because enhancing the conservation of crop wild relatives is one of the United Nations's Sustainable Development Goals, the authors suggest that the study's numbers could be used as a baseline for measuring progress toward meeting conservation goals.

Upon retirement, Beadle organized an expedition to Mexico to look for more wild maize relatives, returning with seeds that proved invaluable to the next generation of molecular archaeologists.

Some 70 % of the wild populations examined by the study, including the relatives of banana, cassava, wheat, and sorghum, are considered high priority for collection; 300 could not be located in any gene bank.

It focuses on securing the wild relatives of 29 of 64 crops that are listed in an annex to the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.

Other suggested projects include studies of Arctic ecosystems subject to pollution from Russian factories; surveys of wild relatives of crops in South America; studies of the food potential of fish in African lakes; and investigation of the greenheart tree in Guyana as a raw material for pharmaceutical use.

These wild relatives, unlike wheat, provide a vast and largely untapped reservoir of genetic variation for potentially most, if not all, agronomically important traits.

Most plant species grown for food have an associated bank that stores thousands of samples: seeds of landraces, wild relatives, and varieties that are rare, old, or adapted to very specific environments.

This means the Nottingham group can transfer these tiny bits of genetic information from the wild relatives into wheat on a large scale creating a step change in the search for new varieties of wheat that will cope with disease and climate change and help feed a growing population.

Take the wild and distant relatives of bread wheat, transfer any agronomically important traits you can find into modern varieties of wheat and distribute the newly created germplasm worldwide for exploitation in international breeding programmes and scientific research.

It is the wild relatives of crops which contain genes for resistance to disease and pests, stock for use in grafting and characteristics to improve the properties of the crops themselves.

The low intensity amber light was shown to inhibit, rather than induce, flowering in greater bird's foot trefoil, a wild relative of peas and beans that is a key source of food for the pea aphid in grasslands and road verges.

He works at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, but does his field studies in Utah, where the plant, a wild relative of cultivated tobacco, grows.

How important is gene flow for maintaining a species» identity and diversity, and what are the implications of these processes for evolution, conservation of endangered species, invasiveness, or unintentional gene flow from domesticated crops to wild relatives?

Natural variation exists in the levels of pectate lyase gene expression in wild relatives of cultivated tomato and these can be used for conventional breeding purposes.

For example, the engineered salmon outcompete their wild relatives in the cushy tanks where food is plentiful.

For example, the genus Canis — which is Latin for «dog» — includes all domestic breeds of dog and their closest wild relatives, including wolves, coyotes, jackals and dingoFor example, the genus Canis — which is Latin for «dog» — includes all domestic breeds of dog and their closest wild relatives, including wolves, coyotes, jackals and dingofor «dog» — includes all domestic breeds of dog and their closest wild relatives, including wolves, coyotes, jackals and dingoes.

For the new study, the researchers analyzed the DNA of 199 specimens taken from sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas) and 36 species of its wild relatives.

Remarkably, the relative expression levels of all marker genes were only slightly decreased when R206H ACVR1 and Q207D caACVR1 cultures were cotransfected with Noggin, whereas cells expressing the wild - type ACVR1 or empty viral vector showed clear downregulation of all analyzed marker genes for chondrogenesis.

«This opens the doors for rice breeders to harness genes from the wild relatives of rice, allowing us to improve crops with traits that are preferred by farmers and consumers.

This work relies on natural variation for these traits that is present in cultivated tomato and in the 12 wild relatives of tomato that occur in South America.

Here we use long - read sequencing to generate end - to - end genome assemblies for 12 strains representing major subpopulations of the partially domesticated yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and its wild relative Saccharomyces paradoxus.

Rome & Bonn, also Nairobi About Blog Keeping a close eye on biodiversity in agriculture, including crops, livestock and wild relatives, for food security and sustainability.

The son's patience, exasperation and love in trying to humour his declining father by taking him on a wild goose chase across the stark, flat landscapes of the Mid West to claim some mythical prize money will strike chords with anyone who has cared for an elderley relative.

It's time to bury the pejorative «wild west» metaphor for choice programs that are only «wild» relative to other, even more hamstrung regimes.

Dogs» wild relatives spend most of their waking hours scavenging and hunting for food, caring for offspring, defending territory and playing with each... → Read More: Is your Pooch getting enough exercise?

Green - lipped mussel oil — A relative newcomer to the market, these mussels come from New Zealand and are specifically and sustainably grown for food, not taken from the wild, so there is no danger of over-harvesting.

Both affected puppies were homozygous for this variant, and 16 relatives were heterozygous, while 288 unrelated Labrador Retrievers and 112 dogs of other breeds were wild - type.

Uganda is one of the last places in the world where you can see mountain gorillas in the wild, and this mascot of the Uganda Tourism Board is an ambassador for his real - life relatives in the forests.

We recognize the wealth of a land based economy because we have lived it, and, in our community on the White Earth reservation, we will continue to work to keep these waters for wild rice, these trees for maple syrup, our lakes for fish, and our land and aquifers present for all relatives.

Conserving Biodiversity in Yemen In Yemen, where agriculture employs more than 55 percent of the economically active population, the World Bank is tapping local farmers «long traditions of agrobiodiversity farming practices» to create coping strategies for adaptation to climate change, including «the conservation and utilization of biodiversity important to agriculture (particularly the local land races and their wild relatives) and associated local traditional knowledge.»

Rome & Bonn, also Nairobi About Blog Keeping a close eye on biodiversity in agriculture, including crops, livestock and wild relatives, for food security and sustainability.

Rome & Bonn, also Nairobi About Blog Keeping a close eye on biodiversity in agriculture, including crops, livestock and wild relatives, for food security and sustainability.