Sentences with phrase «marker assisted»

Using «marker assisted breeding» that tracks the signature of water - efficiency genes, he has been able to accelerate the breeding of new drought tolerant chickpea varieties.

The use of genetic engineering, instead of marker assisted selection, in the development of Golden Rice is being criticized.

Furthermore, Arvind successfully implemented marker assisted introgression and pyramiding of QTLs for grain yield under drought at IRRI.

Where it would take about 10 years to develop a transgenic crop, it will take twice that time to develop a similar plant using marker assisted breeding.

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.

The Roslin Institute recommends strengthening the role of the Farm Animal Welfare Council (FAWC) to consider the implications of genetics on livestock, irrespective of whether these were a consequence of conventional selection, marker assisted genetic modification, or cloning.

Lammerts van Bueren, E.T.; Backes, Gunter; de Vriend, H.C. and Østergård, H. (2010) The role of molecular markers and marker assisted selection in breeding for organic agriculture.

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.

«Marker assisted selection is indeed a useful tool for both conventional and modern breeding.

My tasks were mainly to set up new pipelines (web tools or command line) for different purposes in the frame of the Marker Assisted Selection (MAS) program.