Sentences with phrase «from wild relatives»

Domestic rabbits are different from their wild relatives — they don't do well in extreme temperatures, especially summer heat.

Although rats have been given a bad reputation, domestic rats are completely different from their wild relatives.

tomato collected during a recent outbreak of bacterial speck disease in New York; and 2) Identifying and characterizing immunity - associated genes from wild relatives of tomato.

«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.

In addition to his basic science programs, Jones has isolated and is isolating new resistance genes against potato late blight from wild relatives of potato, with the goal of using them to deliver market - favoured potato varieties that are protected from late blight by genes, rather than by chemistry.

Even though domestic plants usually appear radically different from their wild relatives, they are often still able to interbreed.

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.

Scientists have been attempting to link traits that distinguish domesticated animals from their wild relatives to specific changes in their genomes.

Generally, any mutations that are widespread in domestic plants and animals but absent from their wild relatives are assumed to have played a key role in the process, spreading as people and their livestock moved across the globe.

«Breeding from wild relatives is laborious and slow and by the time a gene is successfully introduced into a cultivated variety, the late blight pathogen may already have evolved the ability to overcome it,» said Professor Jonathan Jones from The Sainsbury Laboratory.

They often breed about 10 generations to make sure no unwanted traits from the wild relative remain.

All the material they produce must be freely available but it can only be made available when they have shown that the important genetic variation from a wild relative is stable — homozygous — and can be scaled up.

«Remains of barley (Hordeum vulgare) grains found at archaeological sites in the Fertile Crescent (in the near east which spans present day Israel, northern Syria, Southern Turkey, eastern Iraq and western Iran) indicate that about 10,000 years ago the crop was domesticated there from its wild relative «Hordeum spontaneum».

Not exact matches

The wild relatives of commercial varieties, ranging from tomatoes to wheat, have provided genes worth billions of dollars in higher crop yields.

The other, a wild relative of sugarcane (Saccharum spontaneum), provides hardiness to harsh environments and the ability to ratoon or produce additional profitable crops from re-growth after harvest.

Thus a new generation of Terminator research is focused on biological containment to prevent engineered genetic traits (transgenes) from spreading to non-GM food plants and wild relatives.

The Jets, the poor relatives in New York, won a wild one from Miami and now appear ready to challenge the Giants» longtime hold on the fans

In wild chickpea relatives, von Wettberg and the team — with support from USAID and the National Science Foundation — discovered many useful traits, including «striking resistance to insect pests,» he says.

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.

By comparing ancient and modern DNA from a domesticated animal as well as its nearest wild relatives, researchers can identify when specific genetic mutations associated with domestication arose.

To investigate further, Michael Otterstatter and his colleagues at the University of Toronto, Canada, modelled the spread of the parasite from commercial bumble bees to their wild relatives.

From their many sizes and colors (vibrantly demonstrated by the potatoes on offer at the Bolivian market pictured above) along with genes that resist drought, wild relatives represent a genetic storehouse of potentially useful traits, such as the genes that allowed potatoes to recover from the blight that precipitated the Irish potato famFrom their many sizes and colors (vibrantly demonstrated by the potatoes on offer at the Bolivian market pictured above) along with genes that resist drought, wild relatives represent a genetic storehouse of potentially useful traits, such as the genes that allowed potatoes to recover from the blight that precipitated the Irish potato famfrom the blight that precipitated the Irish potato famine.

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.

Poached ivory fetches at least $ 165 million a year in Asia while our closest living relatives — great apes like chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans — are being kidnapped from the wild and sold to private collectors.

Their future survival depends on a broader gene pool which includes not only earlier cultivars, but also material from wild varieties and the closest relatives of a species.

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?

She plucked a gene called SUN from one heirloom tomato and inserted it into a wild relative.

And the chances that genes from GM crops will spread to wild relatives is similarly predictable.

Numbers represent percent increases relative to wild type mice and were calculated from the data shown in Table 1.

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.

The location made sense: Wild European rabbits from the Iberian peninsula and France are the closest genetic relatives to pet rabbits.

Their first effort involves transferring a gene from jointed goatgrass, a wild relative of wheat, to confer resistance to stripe rust.

Under a grant from the Global Diversity Trust, we are using genomic tools to develop inter-specific introgression lines, novel genetic resources that are derived from crosses between diverse wild relatives and elite, high yielding varieties of both indica and japonica rice.

Thus far, the DiPalma group has sequenced DNA from over 90 strains of domestic ferret as well as other wild species of ferret, including the Siberian Polecat, the closest relative to the Black - footed Ferret, which is also susceptible to Sylvatic Plague.

mice show significant increase in relative and absolute hepatic weight compared to wild - type; otherwise, no differences from wild - type are noted

The full set of manifestos looks at everything from author - publisher relations and ebooks» relative viability to print, to democratisation and the distributed marketplace and «smart content» that can tell a publisher «where it's been» — who has used it and how, out in the wild.

Territoriality in dogs is a behavior trait passed down from their closest relative, the wolf, and other wild canines.

A house cat may be domesticated, but the digestive system isn't too far from their ancestors and wild relatives.

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.

Break away from the relative safety of your police - patrolled starting system and you'll find a ruthless, cosmic Wild West, where piracy, espionage and scamming are rife.

Everyone knows a friend or relative that is deathly afraid of dogs and other wild animals, and this fear often stems from a violent experience with a dog at a young age.