The phrase
"plant breeders" refers to people who work on improving plants by selecting and crossbreeding them to obtain desired traits, such as better yield, taste, or resistance to diseases.
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During my time, more tools became available
for plant breeders to transfer genes of interest and improve selection efficiency.
So plant breeders require new genetic variation within each crop species so they can adapt to different environments — such as drought, flooding or disease resistance.
Meanwhile,
plant breeders tested types of cotton that were less susceptible and developed varieties that were more resistant to the disease.
Public -
sector plant breeders (for example, at public universities) have developed crops for better productivity.
While I have been working with
fellow plant breeders, I now enjoy working with new partners from the nutrition community.
The new peanut genome sequences were released in 2014 to researchers and
plant breeders around the globe.
Businesses, consultants and scientists sometimes ask themselves
whether plant breeders are still able to raise the yield of crops such as winter wheat and potatoes today.
Another ambition is to track down rust resistance in resistant wheat varieties and strains made available from international institutions to
Danish plant breeders.
The journey of discovery reveals information that gives life scientists insight into evolution and which creates opportunities
for plant breeders and prospects for growers.
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.
«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.
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.»
The group is also working with
plant breeders from Mexico, India and the Philippines who are affiliated with CGIAR, an international agriculture research consortium.
Plant breeders in Canada finally hit upon the right formula in the late 1970's using seed splitting.
Plant varieties produced through traditional cross-breeding techniques may be protected
under Plant Breeders» Rights laws.
Recently, the Philippine sugar industry took a beating when American
plant breeders developed high - fructose varieties of corn.
In the late 1970s, using a technique of genetic manipulation involving seed splitting, 2
Canadian plant breeders came up with a variety of rapeseed that produced a monounsaturated oil low in 22 - carbon erucic acid and high in 18 - carbon oleic acid.
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.
So
early plant breeders took one yellowish orange variety and stuck with it, breeding better - tasting, faster - growing, nicer - looking, and higher - yielding crops generation after generation.
We are also, interested in improving our understanding of how this resistance works so we can do a better job of selecting for it,» says University of
Illinois plant breeder, Brian Diers.
This requires intensified collaboration
between plant breeders and plant pathologists, which is one of the aims of the conference.
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.
Biofortification is successful only
when plant breeders can develop those traits that meet not only the nutritional needs — increased density of micronutrients — but also other requirements of the consumers — such as taste, color, cooking time, to name a few — and agricultural needs — such as higher yield and climate smart — of the farmers.
Chen continues to work
with plant breeders to develop new varieties of pea with higher protein or resistant starch content.
Working with US Department of Agriculture researchers, the Rodale Institute's Peggy Wagoner, a
pioneering plant breeder and agricultural researcher, planted samples, measured their yields, and crossbred the best performers in an attempt to make a commercially viable perennial.
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Few people have heard of Zhikang Li, but history may judge the
Chinese plant breeder to be one of the most important people of the century.
His feature story
about plant breeder Norman Borlaug appears in The Best American Science Writing 2010.
Only few plant mutations are known to give plants with white spots on their leaves, and they are known primarily in the small plant thale cress (arabidopsis), and
hence plant breeders are interested in developing new types.
Plant breeder Zagipa Sapakhova spent two months this summer studying tan spot and Septoria leaf blotch with SDSU small grains pathologist Shaukat Ali.
In 1997,
plant breeder Eduardo Fernandez of the University of the Philippines in Los Baños carried out the first greenhouse trials with the new corn in collaboration with Cargill Seeds, which was later bought by Monsanto.
But despite these two tracks being completely separate, two recent rounds of interviews for clients on either side of this divide helped me recognize what a successful
Indian plant breeder has in common with an equally first - rate American cell biologist: The passion they have for what they do still drives their career success a decade after leaving the academic lab.
Conventionally,
plant breeders generated tenera seeds by taking pollen from male pisifera trees and crossing it to flowers belonging to the female dura.
The science may be there, but the money isn't Traditionally,
plant breeders scan fields in search of favorable traits in crops and collect seeds of the best varieties to save.
Plant breeders who are trying to find citrus varieties that are resistant to the disease have been infecting trees in experiments to determine which ones might be likely candidates, and this research has led to a useful discovery.
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 %.