Sentences with phrase «from conventional breeding»
Monsanto and other companies have commercialized healthier oils derived from conventional breeding and are on track to commercialize improved biotech oils early in the next decade.
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(b) any plant, descended from the plant referred to in paragraph (a), that is the result of conventional breeding of that plant with --
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.
In fact, the FDA has ruled that because DNA is in every living organism, crops engineered with added genes are «substantially the same» as other foods and are no different from crops genetically modified through conventional breeding techniques.
Pike used only conventional breeding for his BetaSweet carrot, crossing seeds from Brazil to obtain a root with stellar taste and nutrition.
But maintaining a mosaic of GM and non-GM fields means pests that develop a tolerance can breed with susceptible populations from conventional fields, slowing the evolution of full - blown resistance.
The vast majority of differences reported between organic and conventional milk come from what cows are fed and their breed, and is not anything unique to being organic or conventional in itself.»
Dr Charles Baxter from Syngenta said: «This discovery has relevance for the development of new tomato varieties via conventional plant breeding and is a significant step forward in understanding processes involved in fruit development, allowing more refined control of this process in plant breeding.»
From Barro's perspective, it is unlikely that gene editing technologies will completely replace conventional plant breeding methods.
«We are in urgent need of new ways to control insect pests on crops, with very limited options available from pesticide sprays and conventional breeding.
«From there, we used a conventional breeding approach, not GM techniques, and managed to increase the amylose content of wheat grain from around 20 or 30 per cent to an unprecedented 85 per cent,» says CSIRO's Dr. Ahmed RegFrom there, we used a conventional breeding approach, not GM techniques, and managed to increase the amylose content of wheat grain from around 20 or 30 per cent to an unprecedented 85 per cent,» says CSIRO's Dr. Ahmed Regfrom around 20 or 30 per cent to an unprecedented 85 per cent,» says CSIRO's Dr. Ahmed Regina.
The dispensers the children will be designing come from Deb's range of sealed cartridge systems, which are more hygienic than conventional «pour in» soap dispensers because they seal the outdoor environment out and prevent bacteria and germs from breeding inside the dispenser.
Sternberg departed from conventional wisdom that says a dog's breed should be considered in a temperament evaluation; instead, she said, all dogs should be considered as individuals with no breed - based dispensation for behavior she considers unacceptable for adoption.
Concluding, that the benefits from GM crops are much lower than can be obtained «with either conventional breeding or agro-ecology-based techniques» from just a tiny fraction of the investment in research.
The main conclusion to be drawn from the efforts of more than 130 research projects, covering a period of more than 25 years of research, and involving more than 500 independent research groups, is that biotechnology, and in particular GMOs, are not per se more risky than... conventional plant breeding technologies.
«The main conclusion to be drawn from the efforts of more than 130 research projects, covering a period of more than 25 years of research, and involving more than 500 independent research groups, is that biotechnology, and in particular GMOs, are not per se more risky than e.g. conventional plant breeding technologies.»
Giving his suggestions, he stressed the need for developing varieties (idealistic plants) from climate change perspective and introduction of new crops using conventional as well as mutation breeding through biotechnology and genetic engineering.