Sentences with phrase «plant breeding programs»
The recommendations come amidst growing concern about the future of public - sector plant breeding programs.
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Like fellow Bay area start - up Geltor, Perfect Day is one of a new breed of companies in the «cellular agriculture» business — using genetically engineered yeasts that have been «programmed» to produce proteins or other ingredients found in plants or animals - on an industrial scale, without raising animals, and with less impact on the environment.
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.
Funding for the research was provided mainly by the United Soybean Board and partially by the Partnership for Research and Education in Plant Breeding and Genetics program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Ag Alumni Seed, AgReliant Genetics, Beck's Hybrids, ConAgraFoods, Dow AgroSciences, Indiana Crop Improvement Association and Pioneer Hi - Bred International.
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.
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.
«Some plants have brilliant defense mechanisms, and Dr. Xue's research helps us know how they defend themselves and what we need to look for in our breeding programs.»
As a result, «you get this ever - expanding gap between elite varieties developed by well - funded private breeding programs and varieties developed for farmers in the developing world by public breeding programs,» said Kelly Robbins, former GOBii director who recently joined Cornell's faculty as an assistant professor of plant breeding and genetics.
While few of us are likely to start bumblebee breeding programs to boost genetic diversity, we might do well to plant pollinator - friendly gardens, support sustainable agricultural practices, and encourage the world to move from conservation into habitat restoration and earth repair as we enter 2011.
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.