Sentences with phrase «in conventional breed»

These dogs are likely to be placed in conventional breed classes in one to three years.

Not exact matches

«A lack of genetic variation in rice has hindered efforts by conventional breeding programs to address iron levels.

Renaud, E.N.C; Lammerts van Bueren, E.T.; Myers, J. R; Paulo, M.J.; Eeuwijk, F.A.; Zhu, N. and Juvik, J.A. (2014) Variation in Broccoli Cultivar Phytochemical Content under Organic and Conventional Management Systems: Implications in Breeding for Nutrition.

Kebari barley was perfected over 13 years by scientists at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Australia by using conventional plant breeding methods.

We employ conventional breeding and new tools in genetics and genomics — such as marker - assisted selection — as well as genetic modification.

Using conventional breeding we've reduced the gluten content in this grain over 10,000 fold, such that it more than meets the World Health Organisation's recommendation for classification as gluten free.

Using conventional plant breeding methods, our researchers have developed Kebari ® barley, a world - first barley grain that has 10,000 times less hordeins (the type of gluten found in barley) than regular barley.

(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.

The intriguing thing to me about working in agricultural biotechnology at this moment is watching how a multitude of subdisciplines such as plant physiology, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, bioinformatics, and molecular and conventional breeding are blending into one big continuum where the lines begin to blur.

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 techniqueIn 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 techniquein 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.

Racing to stay ahead of food demands In the medium term, conventional crossbreeding helped by molecular biology techniques (a technique called «marker assisted breeding») may suffice.

By manipulating TaR1 protein levels in wheat, either by conventional breeding or genetic modification in plants grown in laboratory controlled environments, the researchers demonstrated that they could activate the plant's defences earlier.

Such enhanced wheat could be available in 2007; Dubcovsky and others plan to release wheat varieties created using conventional breeding techniques to incorporate the gene within a year.

The research team used conventional plant breeding techniques to develop the plants into a «High Oleic Hemp» line and higher oleic acid content was demonstrated in a Yorkshire field trial.

For example, the bill states that in order to require a label, foods must «contain genetic material that has been modified through in vitro recombinant deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) techniques» and «could not otherwise be obtained through conventional breeding or found in nature.»

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.

Using conventional breeding techniques, Borlaug's crucial breakthrough was crossing stubby - stalked dwarf wheat with high - yielding varieties, resulting in a plant that was both extremely productive — when given ample fertilizer — and strong enough to hold up under the weight of large clusters of grain.

In that case, a rival project using conventional means to breed resistance — although it will be weaker than the GM variety — may be a more acceptable compromise.

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.»

However, in most parts of the world, conventional dairying is associated with high levels of grain feeding, the use of cow breeds which produce high milk volumes, and the application of large amounts of fertilizer («high input» farming), while organic dairying is tied to pasture and forage feeding, lower amounts of fertilizer application, and the use of mixed or minority breeds («low input»).

At Monsanto, the practice has become so common that, in a recent paper, the firm said «molecular marker assisted breeding is becoming our conventional breeding process,» noting that many of its commercial crops are derived with the process.

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.

Understanding drought - responsive signaling and the molecular and biochemical mechanisms of drought tolerance in model plants such as Arabidopsis and rice provide new insight into how to develop drought - tolerant crop plants through conventional breeding or biotechnological approaches.»

The results, published in the academic journal Nature Biotechnology, could pave the way for new varieties of better tasting tomatoes with improved postharvest life through conventional plant breeding.

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.»

Conventional plant breeding and modern technology can increase the density of micronutrients in staple crops grown and consumed by smallholder farmers around the world.

The booklet discusses in detail and in simple language agricultural biotechnology as it compares with conventional breeding, the agricultural biotechnology tools used in crops such as tissue culture and micropropagation, molecular breeding and marker - assisted selection, and genetic engineering and GM crops.

Traditional methods used to limit the impact of MSD include insecticides to control leafhopper populations (which are not affordable to most small - scale farmers and can be environmentally damaging), and conventional selective breeding of maize for resistance traits that naturally exist in some varieties.

«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.

As Montana's climate is projected to warm in the coming decades, spring wheat breeders at MSU are focusing on conventional breeding techniques to boost tolerance to drought and hotter temperatures in spring wheat varieties.

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.

This is a new breed of lighting on e-ink that will allow you to read in the dark, and not shine light in your eyes like conventional LCD Tablets.

Nonetheless it is quite small for a spaniel, with fully - grown Cavaliers roughly comparable in size to an adolescent of a more conventional spaniel breed.

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.

It turned out that it was safer and more precise than conventional breeding using mutagenesis for example; GM just moves a couple of genes, whereas conventional breeding mucks about with the entire genome in a trial and error way.

«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.»

Gurian - Sherman says, in addition to be cheaper than genetic modification, conventional crop breedings has increased drought tolerance 2 - 3 times more quickly than GM.

What GMOs do do though is make a lot of money for their developers in terms of seed sales (GM seed can't be collected and saved like conventional seed has been for millennia) and in selling pesticides (to which most GM crops have been bred to resist).