Sentences with phrase «plant breeding at»

In June 2015, Clif Bar & Company announced a plan to raise $ 10 million by 2020 to fund the nation's first endowed chairs in organic plant breeding at public universities in the United States.

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.

Not exact matches

This will make plant breeding happen at a much faster clip.

Kebari barley was perfected over 13 years by scientists at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Australia by using conventional plant breeding methods.

«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.

We do this by helping improve plant breeds, better manage increasingly scarce resources such as water, and keep pests and diseases at bay.

«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.

The IRRI and Cambodia partnership began when six Cambodian scientists underwent training on plant breeding and rice production at the Institute between 1960 and 1973.

At Clif Bar, the company is tackling the yield gap by investing in plant breeding, contributing to an agriculture fund that helps provide technical assistance to educate growers and investing in infrastructure that will help reduce the distance that organic producers must transport their crops from the farm gate to the aggregator or processor, which is a significantly longer distance than for most conventional producers, Dillion said.

Roses at the Bronx Botanical Garden are being bred to resist insects, meaning some of the plants will be pesticides - free.

Professor Bruce Fitt, professor of plant pathology at the University of Hertfordshire, added: «This new understanding of plant defense through ETD suggests different operations of specific resistance genes which will help us to be more successful in breeding new strains of crops for resistance.

Realising that he wouldn't be able to advance his career without knowledge of molecular biology, he took up a position at the Plant Breeding Institute (PBI) in Cambridge in 1985.

The intriguing thing to me about working in agricultural biotechnology at this moment is watching how a multitude of subdisciplines such as plant physiology, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, bioinformatics, and molecular and conventional breeding are blending into one big continuum where the lines begin to blur.

«They are one of the world's worst fruit and vegetable pests because of their rapid breeding, broad range of host plants and invasive abilities,» says Gary Steck, an entomologist at Florida's Department of Agriculture.

On this day in 1865, Austrian monk Gregor Johann Mendel presented seminal results of his plant - breeding experiments at a meeting of the National Sciences Society in Brno, Czechoslovakia.

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.

«This is such a diverse organization, we want people who bring a different perspective and understanding, so we can expand globally,» explains Susan Bunz, human resources and corporate services vice president at Pioneer Hi - Bred, a Dupont business, the plant genetics company that ranked # 4 this year (a big leap from # 19 in 2010).

«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.

Bouis, an economist at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), envisioned impoverished farmers in Africa and South Asia growing staple crops that are enriched in key nutrients like iron, zinc, and vitamin A. His presentation had the audience hooked — until he said he would accomplish the feat via old - fashioned plant breeding techniques.

Because the abnormality shows up in genetically identical clones, «it's impossible to attack genetically,» an approach often taken when a crop has a bad trait that can be bred out of that variety, says study co-author Robert Martienssen, a plant geneticist at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York.

Plant breeding research elsewhere in the world has benefited from advances in genomics and molecular markers, but plant breeding scientists in China do not work closely with researchers in those areas, says Carl Pray, an agriculture, food, and resource economics expert at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, who has worked in CPlant breeding research elsewhere in the world has benefited from advances in genomics and molecular markers, but plant breeding scientists in China do not work closely with researchers in those areas, says Carl Pray, an agriculture, food, and resource economics expert at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, who has worked in Cplant breeding scientists in China do not work closely with researchers in those areas, says Carl Pray, an agriculture, food, and resource economics expert at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, who has worked in China.

So if everyone who planted it to help the butterflies can be convinced to replace it with a native milkweed species — or at least cut the plant back every few weeks during the winter — they could quickly put a stop to the destructive winter - breeding trend.

At Kumho Life and Environmental Science Lab in Kwangju, for example, 10 of its 55 workers are paid by the program and work alongside full - time employees to crystallize proteins, breed transgenic plants, and conduct studies on environmental stress signals.

Michael Broberg Palmgren however, thinks there might also be a positive way to look at the double function of the pumps: «Theoretically it could be possible to breed plants that are effective in clearing contaminated soil of cadmium,» he points out.

To unravel the mystery, George Coupland and colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, Germany, decided to study the effect of light on the protein.

Joost van der Burg, a researcher at the Centre for Plant Breeding and Reproduction Research in Wageningen, started dropping peas from a height of a few millimetres onto a sensor, called a force transducer.

Using techniques collectively known as molecular breeding, geneticists have started to return results in a variety of plants, said Ed Buckler, a plant geneticist at Cornell University who recently helped sequence the corn genome.

Increasingly affordable with improved technology, molecular breeding is becoming the mode of business in the crop world, said Bonnie McClafferty, development head at HarvestPlus, a nonprofit funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that supports molecular breeding research into improving plant nutrition in Africa and Asia.

«All approaches so far to breed salt - tolerant plants must be considered more or less as failures,» says Professor Rainer Hedrich, plant scientist at the Julius - Maximilians - Universität (JMU) Würzburg in Bavaria, Germany.

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.

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

A new project at SCRI aims to foil this particular pest by breeding raspberries whose flowers lack beetle - tempting chemicals in their scent: the plants must smell unattractive to beetles yet stay tasty for humans.

In Australia, at CSIRO plant Industry in Canberra, Richard Richards has bred drought tolerant wheat varieties called Vigour X-25 and Drysdale that yield 10 % to 20 % gains in arid conditions.

Claire recently completed her Ph.D. in Plant Breeding and Plant Genetics at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

Trostle said four additional federally funded projects, three led by AgriLife Research, are aimed at providing more information for producers on guar in relation to guar agronomics, wheat rotation, plant breeding / adaptation and bioenergy.

Doug received his PhD in molecular, cellular and developmental biology from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and did postdoctoral research in plant genetic engineering at the Plant Breeding Institute in Cambridge Engplant genetic engineering at the Plant Breeding Institute in Cambridge EngPlant Breeding Institute in Cambridge England.

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.

The grant's co-PIs include: Carmen Catala, a senior research associate at BTI; Zhangjun Fei, a USDA - ARS scientist, and adjunct associate professor in the Plant Pathology and Plant - Microbe Biology section in the School of Integrative Plant Science (SIPS); and James Giovanni, also a USDA - ARS scientist and adjunct professor in the Plant Breeding and Genetics section, SIPS.

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 latest findings stem from an ongoing collaboration that is ultimately aimed at bringing farmers a more stable breed of the plant that has less reliance on water and is less vulnerable to climate change.

For Jane Dever, a former global plant breeding manager at Bayer CropScience, the switch to a career in organic and non-GMO foods was all about following... Read More»

At the breeding plants, 80 per cent of larvae from caviar survive, but, when thrown down into Baikal, they become exposed to many dangers.

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.

Federal inspectors say they have increased their inspections at dog breeding facilities after the Office of Inspector General issued a scathing 2010 review on the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, known by its initials APHIS.

Although they were bred for beagling (hunting with their noses), they are also used as scent dogs to find drugs at airports, dogs to find plants at border crossings, search and rescue dogs, and, since they are usually healthy, they are used in a lot of labs.

Do not fall into the trap set by low - quality pet food manufacturers who sell breed - specific formulas that offer low to moderate nutritional value at best — these manufacturers also tend to make use of non-nutritive fillers to bulk up their products as well as plant - based proteins to increase the protein content without actually adding more meat.

It is confirmed, this latest recall of Diamond Naturals Small Breed Adult Dog Lamb & Rice Formula dry dog food was made at the Meta, Missouri plant not the Gaston, SC plant (where all the other recalls originated).

According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Solid Gold is recalling one batch of WolfCub Large Breed Puppy Food and one batch of Solid Gold WolfKing Large Breed Adult Dog because the products were produced at Diamond Pet Food's Gaston, S.C., plant.

2004 — September: Work commences on the spacious new breeding area for the Elephants, and at the same time updating and modernizing the infrastructure of the Elephant food area, waste & rubbish removal, plus the implementing of a brand new Elephant Manure Processing Plant in Renon, Denpasar where the elephant waste is turned into an environmentally friendly fertilizer.

I'll be spending next week at Cornell as a visiting «professor at large,» and one of my stops will hopefully be the plant breeding and genetics program.