Sentences with phrase «of plant breeding»

Combining conventional techniques of plant breeding with the latest tools of biotechnology can potentially solve many of the problems that the human race is facing today.

The paring down of wheat's genetic diversity over generations is not easy to rebuild, but Mark Sorrells, another professor of plant breeding at Cornell, is optimistic: «It is possible to make [these] kind of broad generalizations... but it is easy to cite examples in the other direction,» he said, mentioning the durum wheat used for pasta.

«Rice genetics is all about understanding the genes of rice so that we can develop new and improved rice varieties to help farmers produce more rice, with fewer resources and despite challenges like climate change,» said event convener, Dr. Eero Nissila, head of the Plant Breeding, Genetics, and Biotechnology Division at IRRI.

Hybrid: The History and Science of Plant Breeding by Noel Kingsbury.

«The consequences of these sorts of ruling is that new methods of plant breeding, whether GM or other forms that are developed, could be thrown out of potential use, making it impossible to innovate.»

Lammerts van Bueren, E.T. (2010) Ethics of Plant Breeding: The IFOAM Basic Principles as a Guide for the Evolution of Organic Plant Breeding.

Benbrook agreed that studies on genetically modified food show there are no new or different risks that other forms of plant breeding don't already pose, but he also said that studies indicate there is a possibility that genetically modified food may pose a higher risk.

Dr. Alfonso opened his presentation by relating the importance of plant breeding and nutritional enhancement as a breeding objective.

While peanuts have been successfully bred for intensive cultivation, relatively little was known about the legume's genetic structure because of its complexity, according to Peggy Ozias - Akins, a senior author on the paper and director of the UGA Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics.

The research was supported by Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) through the Sustainable Arable LINK programme, with support from Agricultural and Horticultural Development Board (AHDB) and a consortium of plant breeding companies: Elsoms Seeds, Limagrain, Sejet, SW Seed and Syngenta, and by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).

Their research has revealed one genetic mechanism for hybrid vigor, a property of plant breeding that has been exploited to boost yield since the early 20th century.

Unfortunately, decades of plant breeding for salinity tolerance have not resulted in a major breakthrough that might allow us to resolve this issue.

«One of the take - home messages is, it makes less and less sense to talk about genetic engineering as a distinct category of plant breeding,» said Michael Rodemeyer, an attorney and former University of Virginia professor who served on the committee.

With this intense focus on ingredients, seven years ago Barber asked Michael Mazourek, co-founder at Row 7 and associate professor of plant breeding and genetics at Cornell University, to create a better butternut squash.

Departments of Plant Breeding and Genetics and Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.

It all started in 2003 when Dr. Wing and Dr. Scott Jackson, a professor, GRE Eminent Scholar, and Director of the Center for Applied Genetic Technologies at the University of Georgia, initiated a collaboration with Dr. Darshan Brar, former IRRI plant breeder and Head of the Plant Breeding and Genetics Division during a visit to IRRI headquarters in Los Baños, Philippines.

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Traditional methods of plant breeding have been recently joined by high - tech genetic mapping techniques that are aimed at revealing the genes that control traits such as blight and root rot resistance.

Mitch Tuinstra, a professor of plant breeding and genetics at Purdue, likened Schulz's work with corn to what Norman Borlaug did for the development of high - yield wheat crops in the 1960s and 1970s.

«It's a big drag,» said Susan McCouch, a professor of plant breeding and genetics at Cornell University who specializes in finding wild varieties of rice for breeding.

The research could lead to at least tripling the provitamin A levels [the precursor to vitamin A] in Africa's maize, said senior author Edward Buckler, a U.S. Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Station research geneticist in Cornell's Institute for Genomic Diversity and Cornell adjunct associate professor of plant breeding and genetics.

Richard Trethowan is Professor of Plant Breeding, Director, IA Watson Grains Research Centre, Narrabri, University of Sydney

Collaborators on GOBii include Susan McCouch and Mark Sorrells, professors of plant breeding and genetics at Cornell University; Qi Sun, a senior research associate at Cornell's Computational Biology Service Unit; and Ed Buckler and Jean Luc Jannink, geneticists with the USDA Agricultural Research Service.

As a result, «you get this ever - expanding gap between elite varieties developed by well - funded private breeding programs and varieties developed for farmers in the developing world by public breeding programs,» said Kelly Robbins, former GOBii director who recently joined Cornell's faculty as an assistant professor of plant breeding and genetics.