Sentences with phrase «into plant breeding»

Masatoshi Nei: I wanted to make population genetics useful and practical, so I went into plant breeding.

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To that end, the UCS has put work into showing modern plant - breeding techniques can compete with genetic modification technologies.

Then they can use classical plant breeding or genetic engineering to transfer those genes into desired cultivars.

The company has a fully - integrated supply chain from the breeding of proprietary stevia plant varieties, to growing and harvesting, extracting, and purifying into a wide range of stevia ingredients.

Beyond this, the unique power of GM lies in its ability to incorporate novel genes with useful traits for rice, including genes from plants and organisms unrelated to rice, into new rice varieties that can not be achieved using other breeding methods.

It is not known whether this breeding was enhanced by the delivery of environmental water in early spring to support plants on the riverbank, or whether carp spawned in the Murray and moved into the Lower Goulburn River.»

Research into the pumpkin (Cucurbita moschata) is a clear example of how the agriculture and plant breeding systems changed.

Only in recent years have advances in genomics — and understanding how genetics play out in whole organisms — made it realistic for crop breeders to be able to identify traits in wild plants and selectively breed them into domestic stock.

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.

Prof Inzé (VIB - Ghent University): «This study provided major insights into how plants cope with water - limiting conditions, which can direct advanced breeding and genome engineering efforts to create high - performing, drought - tolerant crop plants.

The study provided major insights into how plants cope with water - limiting conditions, which can direct advanced breeding and genome engineering efforts to create high - performing, drought - tolerant crop plants.

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.

«Just because a plant or animal trait is common today doesn't mean that it was bred into them from the beginning,» Larson said.

But research teams around the world have been trying, through selective breeding or genetic manipulation, to coax the coffee plant into omitting the caffeine in the first place.

The birds incorporate these heavy isotopes into their feathers, which grow each year during or just after the breeding season, from the insects and plants they eat.

Increasingly affordable with improved technology, molecular breeding is becoming the mode of business in the crop world, said Bonnie McClafferty, development head at HarvestPlus, a nonprofit funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that supports molecular breeding research into improving plant nutrition in Africa and Asia.

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.»

CNAP has also created a toolbox for producing plants that are bred to thrive in particular regions by delving into the genotypes of Artemisia from several places around the world.

The ultimate outcome of their work might be not only the breeding of quinoa varieties with an even higher salt tolerance but also the crossbreeding of salt tolerance genes into related crop plants such as sugar beets or spinach.

In a 1987 Nature paper, a team led by plant geneticist Peter Meyer, then with the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, Germany, showed that inserting a maize gene into a petunia enabled it to produce the pigment pelargonidin and take on a salmon cplant geneticist Peter Meyer, then with the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, Germany, showed that inserting a maize gene into a petunia enabled it to produce the pigment pelargonidin and take on a salmon cPlant Breeding Research in Cologne, Germany, showed that inserting a maize gene into a petunia enabled it to produce the pigment pelargonidin and take on a salmon color.

domesticate (n.) A wild plant or animal species that has been bred into a tame version, usually over many generations.

Nina has experienced science on a global scale; she worked for the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research in Italy where she provided advice on the integration of molecular genetics techniques into conservation and plant breeding activities.

Because we are cutting and pasting genes into plants that normally would not be present through traditional cross breeding and into these supposedly useless non-coding regions, what are we really doing to our food?

At the breeding plants, 80 per cent of larvae from caviar survive, but, when thrown down into Baikal, they become exposed to many dangers.

Do not fall into the trap set by low - quality pet food manufacturers who sell breed - specific formulas that offer low to moderate nutritional value at best — these manufacturers also tend to make use of non-nutritive fillers to bulk up their products as well as plant - based proteins to increase the protein content without actually adding more meat.

2004 — September: Work commences on the spacious new breeding area for the Elephants, and at the same time updating and modernizing the infrastructure of the Elephant food area, waste & rubbish removal, plus the implementing of a brand new Elephant Manure Processing Plant in Renon, Denpasar where the elephant waste is turned into an environmentally friendly fertilizer.

While few of us are likely to start bumblebee breeding programs to boost genetic diversity, we might do well to plant pollinator - friendly gardens, support sustainable agricultural practices, and encourage the world to move from conservation into habitat restoration and earth repair as we enter 2011.

«Discussion Guide: How to talk about plant breeding innovation'translated into French, Spanish, Portuguese and Chinese in 2017, with Japanese and Korean in the pipeline for 2018.