Sentences with phrase «improve breeding strategies»

The disease occurs frequently in the breed and there is a strong need for a genetic test to improve breeding strategies.

Not exact matches

To help improve crop breeding strategies and overcome challenges such as making plants more tolerant of marginal lands, and stresses such as drought and low nutrient availability, researchers are focusing on understanding and promoting beneficial plant - microbe relationships.

But the potential payoff is large: developing new strategies for breeding and improving wheat crops.

Improving access to sweet potatoes and breeding vitamin A-rich sweet potatoes are thus important nutritional strategies for preventing vitamin A deficiency.

Analysis can provide valuable genetic information that can lead the way for breeders to begin to develop a strategy for improving the long - term viability of our breed's gene pool.

Alternatively, this increased risk associated with being born in the 1990's could be a reflection of a real decrease in incidence of GDV because of improved owner education, management, breeding strategies, or formulations of dog food.

The bottom line is that breeders need to protect the DLA diversity that remains in their breed, and as they contemplate breeding strategies to improve overall genetic diversity, they should specifically consider DLA diversity as well.

Breeding strategies incorporating screening schemes have been shown to be successful in significantly reducing the prevalence of an inherited disorder and improving the overall health in certain breeds.

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«Removing breed labels is a relatively low - cost strategy that will likely improve outcomes for dogs in animal shelters,» the authors conclude

Their research could be used to help identify adaptation strategies, potentially including genetic modification or improved plant breeding.