Sentences with phrase «on conventional breeding»

As Montana's climate is projected to warm in the coming decades, spring wheat breeders at MSU are focusing on conventional breeding techniques to boost tolerance to drought and hotter temperatures in spring wheat varieties.

Not exact matches

A study by the British Trust for Ornithology (1995) compared breeding and over-wintering of birds on 44 organic and conventional farms.

At the time, conventional wisdom had it that John Daly's appearance on the golf scene, as well as Woods» ascendency, were attracting «a new breed of fans» to the course, as the AP piece indicated.

A 2014 report to the UK Council for Science and Technology, for instance, concluded that «it is not appropriate to have a regulatory framework that is based on the premise that GM crops are more hazardous than crop varieties produced by conventional plant breeding», citing two decades of extensive studies that have not revealed significant risks to human, animal or environmental health.

Monsanto and other companies have commercialized healthier oils derived from conventional breeding and are on track to commercialize improved biotech oils early in the next decade.

Dr Ton added: «Plant immunity that is controlled by a single resistance gene, on which most conventional breeding programs are based, is comparably easy to overcome by a pathogen.

«We are in urgent need of new ways to control insect pests on crops, with very limited options available from pesticide sprays and conventional breeding.

IRRI is now free to seek plant breeders» rights, patents and all manner of IPRs on its breeding lines and varieties, whether conventional seeds, hybrids or GMOs.

Transgenesis has less impact on the transcriptome of wheat grain than conventional breeding.

On top of that, many hybrids are selectively bred to survive low levels of magnesium and most conventional fertilizers use nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorus, and do nothing to replenish magnesium levels.

This is a new breed of lighting on e-ink that will allow you to read in the dark, and not shine light in your eyes like conventional LCD Tablets.

We pride ourselves on having spent the last 60 years cultivating a reputation of excellence for exceptional dog training services, conventional boarding, and a responsible German Shepherd breeding program.