Sentences with phrase «potentially useful genes»
Lost traits would be difficult to re-create, he says, because modern livestock lack living wild relatives — a reserve of potentially useful genes that has saved agricultural crops in the past.
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«Given the similarities in the molecules and the mechanisms involved in limb development in vertebrates and invertebrates, the fly is a very useful genetic model in which to identify new genes that potentially participate in limb development in vertebrates and their possible association with congenital diseases,» says Ana Ferreira, who has participated in the study.
«These findings illustrate how resurrection plants manipulate sugar metabolism to promote desiccation tolerance and may provide candidate genes that are potentially useful for the development of stress tolerant crops.»
From their many sizes and colors (vibrantly demonstrated by the potatoes on offer at the Bolivian market pictured above) along with genes that resist drought, wild relatives represent a genetic storehouse of potentially useful traits, such as the genes that allowed potatoes to recover from the blight that precipitated the Irish potato famine.
«Gene expression profiling allows us to identify drugs that are potentially useful when given in combination.