Sentences with phrase «modern breeding techniques»
Running concurrently with modern breeding techniques is the development of genetically modified (GM) varieties of wheat, which involves inserting a piece of genetic material into another species of wheat within the same genus.
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To that end, the UCS has put work into showing modern plant - breeding techniques can compete with genetic modification technologies.
The new study's lead author, Barbara Wallner, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna, paired these old, yet meticulously kept data with modern DNA sequencing techniques to investigate the origins of today's horse breeds.
A group of scientists won the 2017 Olam Prize for Innovation in Food Security for applying advanced breeding techniques to strains of primitive and modern wheat to develop a set of durum wheat varieties that can not only withstand constant 35 to 40 degree Celsius (95 to 104 degree Fahrenheit) heat,