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Plant breeders from across the subcontinent who want to keep up with advancements in the discipline shared their training needs with WorldVeg.

Plant breeders from across the subcontinent who want to keep up with advancements in the discipline shared their training needs with WorldVeg.

But again technology provided a solution, largely due to the work of a plant breeder from Iowa named Norman Borlaug.

Not exact matches

If electricity use continues to double every nine years, huge amounts of power will have to come from 500 years» worth of coal supplies and lots of nuclear power plants — by this time possibly breeder or fusion plants.

While I have been working with fellow plant breeders, I now enjoy working with new partners from the nutrition community.

The start of the first Green Revolution in rice, Zeigler thought back, could have been in July 1963 when IRRI's first breeder, Peter Jennings, found F2 (second - generation) rice plants from a set of 38 crosses involving dwarf rice varieties from Taiwan.

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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.

Conventionally, plant breeders generated tenera seeds by taking pollen from male pisifera trees and crossing it to flowers belonging to the female dura.

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.

In Malaysia, independent smallholders get planting material that has been validated by the MPOB from trusted oil - palm breeders, but that layer of quality control doesn't exist in Indonesia.

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 %.

A plant breeder discovers his experimental crops have been «contaminated» with genes from a neighboring field.

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.

«Most of the yield increases are the result of breeders selecting better combinations of genes that can allow plants to take sunlight and produce more seed from that sunlight.

It allows plant breeders to take a desirable trait (like resistance to drought, insects, weeds, and disease) from one plant or organism and transfer it to the plant they want to improve, as well as make a change to an existing trait in a plant they are developing.

In an article from MSU News, Dr. Luther Talbert, a spring wheat breeder in MSU's Department of Plant Sciences and Plant Pathology, states that «The goal of the spring wheat breeding program is try to be steps ahead of what's next... There are always pests and diseases, but climate and temperature changes are variable and hard to forecast.

The project is part of the USDA's focus on supporting research in plant breeding, genetics, and genomics to improve crops, identify and address threats from pests and diseases, and, create new technologies and tools for plant breeders.

Oregon State fruit breeder Maxine Thompson: A trailblazer in plant science, now retired from academia, she continues to work on...

New cotton varieties from USDA plant breeder Todd Campbell improve fiber quality, which determines cotton value, improving grower revenues.

The start of the first Green Revolution in rice, Zeigler thought back, could have been in July 1963 when IRRI's first breeder, Peter Jennings, found F2 (second - generation) rice plants from a set of 38 crosses involving dwarf rice varieties from Taiwan.

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.

When looking for a puppy, remember that all dogs (like all other animals and plants) carry genetic defects, that not all genetic defects cause painful disorders that require Herculean efforts to cure or control, and that chances of getting a pup with fewer serious defects are enhanced if you buy from a responsible breeder who uses the tools scientists have provided.

Gene banks hold hundreds of thousands of seeds and tissue culture materials collected from farmers» fields and from wild, ancestral populations, providing the raw material that plant breeders need to create crops of the future.

Dragla, a Ridgetown College plant breeder and probably Canada's leading hemp specialist, just returned from a trip down under to work with the Aussies to develop hemp seeds that would grow well in a subtropical climate.

With 9 billion people to feed by 2050 and with crops facing increased stress from rising temperatures and drought, plant breeders must marshal all of the available crop diversity to continuously develop new varieties of wheat, maize, rice, and other foods.

The legislation would introduce new protections for plant breeders, including a longer term of protection, as well as a farmers» privilege to use harvested seeds from the plant varieties they grow on their own holdings to propagate such plant varieties on those holdings.