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«Heat tolerance is a very important trait for bean production in Central America and the Caribbean,» says James Beaver, a plant breeder at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, who was not involved in the study.

The next step is to test the technology in the field, says Anthony Hall, a plant breeder at the University of California, Riverside.

«I am delighted with our success in breeding a Golden Rice version of Bangladesh's most popular rice variety, BRRI dhan29, which we hope will make a substantial contribution to reducing vitamin A deficiency across the country,» said Dr. Alamgir Hossain, principal plant breeder at BRRI.

Plant breeders at universities and seed companies have invested thousands of man - years in breeding crops resistant to diseases since that time.

Not exact matches

«Importantly, for plant breeders, rice has an extraordinarily diverse genetic resource base that spreads across at least 24 different species of rice.»

With twice the flavor and nutrients at half the size, this new squash variety, developed by Cornell plant breeder Michael Mazourek with help from Barber himself, is not only adorable, it's the future of produce.

Judging by the plants that were on exhibit at the Capsicum Industry Expo, Chinese breeders are very successful at increasing yield and fruit size.

«This is an extremely important crop with major problems,» says study co-author Gert Kema, a plant pathologist and banana breeder at Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands.

At the time, Tan Yap Pau was a plant breeder and researcher at United Plantations, a Danish palm - oil company based in MalaysiAt the time, Tan Yap Pau was a plant breeder and researcher at United Plantations, a Danish palm - oil company based in Malaysiat United Plantations, a Danish palm - oil company based in Malaysia.

The team on the three - year study includes plant pathologists, breeders, crop nutrient managers, economists, weed scientists, entomologists and outreach specialists from Texas, Arkansas and Washington, D.C. Research on organic rice has been in progress at the AgriLife Research facility in Beaumont for at least five years, Zhou said, and results from those studies, along with some from other areas, will be parlayed into the new study.

A new paper from scientists at the John Innes Centre in Norwich explains why plant breeders have found it difficult to produce wheat varieties which combine high yield and good resistance to Septoria, a disease in wheat which can cut yield losses by up to 50 %.

In nature, however, plants are never exposed to only one stress at a time, so breeders have also taken an interest in the plants» capacity to resist multiple environmental stresses.

The work represents «a really nice collaboration between molecular biologists and plant breeders,» says Jan Leach, a plant pathologist at Colorado State University in Fort Collins.

With this information, corn breeders could someday build more durable resistance in future hybrids,» says Santiago Mideros, plant pathologist in the Department of Crop Sciences at the University of Illinois.

At the time the main concern for plant breeders was pollen movement between different strains of crops — if a variety of sweet corn was contaminated by pollen from a popcorn variety, then the resulting hybrid offspring would produce seeds that were unusable for market purposes or for selecting new varieties.

Worried about the impact of rising temperatures, a group at CIAT led by plant breeder Stephen Beebe examined more than 1000 bean varieties stored in gene banks.

For example, knowing more about the odor codes of crop plants and fruits at molecular level can be useful to breeders.

The database will need to be robust enough to handle a monumental amount of data of multiple types, while also being user - friendly so that plant breeders can efficiently make use of the information — a task that is equivalent to «finding a shirt that fits everyone,» said Kevin Palis, a software developer at IRRI, the International Rice Research Institute in Los Baños, Philippines.

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, Philippplant breeder and Head of the Plant Breeding and Genetics Division during a visit to IRRI headquarters in Los Baños, PhilippPlant Breeding and Genetics Division during a visit to IRRI headquarters in Los Baños, Philippines.

The sorghum was developed at the Clemson Pee Dee Research and Education Center in Florence by Advanced Plant Technology program leader and plant breeder Stephen KresoPlant Technology program leader and plant breeder Stephen Kresoplant breeder Stephen Kresovich.

According to one recent study, «These changes in stress tolerance are likely the by - product of plant breeders selecting for yield at high plant populations and over a wide range of growing environments.»

According to a press release, the Puppy Mill Awareness Group said it conducted its own investigation, revealing that The Family Puppy has worked with breeders from Minnesota, Missouri, Indiana and Ohio in 2009 and 2010, and that an inspector from the United States Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA APHIS) found unacceptable conditions for breeding dogs at one of the store's breeders.

Under the Animal Welfare Act (AWA), wholesale animal breeders — those who sell to pet stores, for instance — are regulated, licensed and subject to inspections by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service at USDA.

This would be achieved by harvesting existing perennial plants at intervals of several years and replacing them with much more productive varieties developed by plant breeders.

«Patent and plant breeders» rights applications have already been filed, and we have some issued patents on processes to do with cannabis already, so it's definitely important to at the very minimum be aware that some people may have registered IP rights already in this area so you're not infringing on the rights of others even if you may not want to file for protection yourself,» Curcio says.

She says that, in the U.S. at least, there are already movements to encourage people who are currently growing cannabis plants to make their strains known in the public domain so that they're never patented or registered for plant breeders» rights.