Sentences with phrase «new wild relative»
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Thus a new generation of Terminator research is focused on biological containment to prevent engineered genetic traits (transgenes) from spreading to non-GM food plants and wild relatives.
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The Jets, the poor relatives in New York, won a wild one from Miami and now appear ready to challenge the Giants» longtime hold on the fans
«Genetic limits threaten chickpeas, a globally critical food: New research shows promise in improving crops with use of wild relatives.»
But they also collected wild relatives of chickpeas in southeastern Turkey that hold «great promise,» von Wettberg says, as a source of new genes for traits like drought - resistance, resistance to pod - boring beetles, and heat tolerance.
A new study shows that salmon genetically modified to grow 25 times larger than their wild relatives end up far punier when reared in a natural - looking environment.
A new study published in Transactions of the American Fisheries Society discusses the ability of eDNA to accurately predict the presence, relative abundance, and biomass of wild Brook Trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) populations.
This means the Nottingham group can transfer these tiny bits of genetic information from the wild relatives into wheat on a large scale creating a step change in the search for new varieties of wheat that will cope with disease and climate change and help feed a growing population.
For the new study, the researchers analyzed the DNA of 199 specimens taken from sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas) and 36 species of its wild relatives.
In addition to his basic science programs, Jones has isolated and is isolating new resistance genes against potato late blight from wild relatives of potato, with the goal of using them to deliver market - favoured potato varieties that are protected from late blight by genes, rather than by chemistry.
tomato collected during a recent outbreak of bacterial speck disease in New York; and 2) Identifying and characterizing immunity - associated genes from wild relatives of tomato.
Green - lipped mussel oil — A relative newcomer to the market, these mussels come from New Zealand and are specifically and sustainably grown for food, not taken from the wild, so there is no danger of over-harvesting.