Sentences with phrase «produce hybrids of»

It is relatively easy to produce hybrids of the annuum varieties with habaneros.
I'm not clear what you're trying to push here but humans are able to produce hybrids of all kinds and we are getting more sophisticated all the time.

Not exact matches

From the beginnings of civilization, farmers have been intervening in the course of evolution by producing hybrid grains, and stock breeders have been domesticating animals that live longer or work harder or run faster.
I am fascinated by the global cities and crossroads of history, where people exchanged goods, customs, and ideas, and produced brilliant hybrid cultures as a result (Constantinople and Manila come to mind, or the many cultures along the Silk Road).
Advances in planting and grape hybrid technology have made it possible for any region of the world to produce a wine of any variety and quality.
Comfort fusion is the blending of two or more familiar foods or beverage, which produces hybrids and mashups.
This hybrid citrus is slightly sweet, less tart than a regular lemon and produces a crazy amount of juice.
They're working together to reduce natural resources, cut the energy it takes to produce and deliver their products, and implement sustainable business practices throughout their operations (including use of solar and wind energy to power their facilities and hybrid trucks to deliver their products.)
The pods of the current year's plants will be true, but the seed in those pods will produce hybrids thereafter.
In 1966, Dr. Paul Smith of the University of California - Davis crossed Floral Gem with the Fresno variety of New Mexican chile, and then crossed that hybrid with «Hungarian Yellow Wax Hot» to produce the «Caloro» variety, which was soon refined to become «Santa Fe Grande».
Although the current hybrid engines produce a fairly interesting noise, they can't match the old V8s and V10s for that high - pitched scream which used to provide such an ear - shattering and chest - piercing part of the F1 - watching experience.
Because the Asian varieties seemed to have natural resistance to the fungus, silviculturists from the U.S. Department of Agriculture began interbreeding Asian and American chestnuts in the early 1900s with the hope of producing a blight - resistant hybrid.
After isolation, if members of the split populations encounter one another and can not produce viable offspring that can themselves later successfully interbreed and produce viable offspring (hybrids such as mules are infertile), then these two populations constitute two different species.
Eight species known as the Anopheles gambiae complex of mosquitoes in Africa became separate species less than 5 million years ago, and they sometimes still interbreed, producing fertile hybrids.
Specifically, they knew two closely related wasp species, Nasonia giraulti and Nasonia longicornis, could produce healthy hybrid offspring and that the two had a similar array of gut bacteria.
He pulled the number of cases produced per acre — a yield metric important to processors that he calls «case production» — from each trial, and then incorporated environmental data to calculate yield stability for 12 of the most commonly planted hybrids grown for processing.
After finding that two closely related species, the desert and Bryant's woodrats, could interbreed and produce hybrid offspring, scientists set out to determine why only 14 percent of the population in a «contact zone» had genetic signatures from both species.
This European strain may not have arrived on the continent with a major, known wave of new settlers from Africa; it could have been introduced by a few individuals who were coinfected with two strains, producing a particularly adaptive hybrid type that spread rapidly in Europe.
«In fish, it is not uncommon for such hybrids, which display characters derived from both parental species, to be fertile and capable of producing fertile progeny,» says Schliewen.
The investigators, who closely collaborated with the R&D team of Barry Callebaut, the world's largest chocolate producer, have combined two critical characteristics of yeast in single hybrid variants: the ability to dominate cocoa fermentations, and to produce a specific flavor.
Sterile - male plants make it much easier and cheaper to cross strains of the same species to produce the vigorous hybrids prized by farmers and gardeners.
If plants aren't sterile - male, they can fertilise themselves and fewer of the seeds they produce will be hybrids.
Additionally, the hybrid at the top of the list for case production produced 61 percent more cases of corn kernels per acre than the lowest.
In a research article recently published in Frontiers in Chemistry, a team of researchers investigated the effects of fungal infection on wine produced from the grape varieties White Riesling, Red Riesling and Gewürztraminer, and the effect of powdery mildew on wine made from the unsprayed hybrid grape type Gm 8622 - 3.
Some closely related species interbreed where their ranges overlap, producing hybrid offspring that can even backcross with either parent species, until a whole population of mixed - species birds forms in the area and creates what's known as a «hybrid zone.»
The investigators then crossed some of the best strains, to produce hybrids which they found performed even better.
The offspring of high - oil - producing tenera hybrids will generate high - yielding progeny only about half the time.
Tenera seeds, a hybrid of pisifera and dura, produce a nice thin shell and copious oil.
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.
In California, which has one of the highest proportions of clean electricity in the country, the electric vehicle would produce only 100 grams per mile, half that of the hybrid.
He says that a designer strain of Streptomyces would allow researchers to combine the building blocks of various antibiotics produced by the streptomycetes and other bacteria to make novel, hybrid antibiotics.
As it stands, a conventional Toyota Prius hybrid vehicle, which burns gasoline when its batteries are not engaged, and the all - electric Nissan Leaf produce roughly the same amount of greenhouse gas pollution: 200 grams per mile, according to data from the U.S. Department of Energy.
A hybrid rocket propulsion system comprises propellants of two different states of matter, the most common configuration being a rocket engine composed of a solid propellant lining a combustion chamber into which a liquid or gaseous propellant is injected so as to undergo a strong exothermic reaction to produce hot gas that is emitted through a De Laval nozzle for propulsive purposes.
Harvesting heat produced by a car's engine which would otherwise be wasted and using it to recharge the car's batteries or powering the air - conditioning system could be a significant feature in the next generation of hybrid cars.
But in the Midwest and South, where coal fuels the bulk of electricity generation, a hybrid produces less CO2 than an electric car.
REPREVE Renewables LLC produces modified rhizomes of Miscanthus x giganteus, a sterile hybrid type of perennial grass, for use as a feedstock.
Some closely related species interbreed where their ranges overlap, producing hybrid offspring that can backcross with either parent species, until a whole population of mixed - species birds forms in the area and creates what's known as a «hybrid zone.»
But if two Majorana fermions were sitting at either end of the wire, each in the form of a hybrid between an electron and its positively charged partner, an electron - free «hole», then that could produce such a blip.
We have recently developed hybrid assembly methods that use a combination of short and long reads to produce remarkably high - quality assemblies from whole - genome shotgun data.
A team of MIT scientists has combined graphene with a second, similarly structured material, producing a hybrid that can wield significant control over light waves.
The goal is that the hybrid genome produces a bird that not only carries the genetic legacy of an extinct species, but looks and behaves like extinct passenger pigeons.
Through a process of precise hybridization, made possible with modern genome editing and reproductive technologies, we can produce a new hybrid generation of the passenger pigeon ecotype that carries a small but important genetic legacy of its extinct forebears.
Previous work has given insights into the mechanistic pathways leading to small molecule sequestration in membrane - free coacervate protocells; successfully demonstrated the use of liquid - liquid phase separated micro compartments for protein expression using cell free expression systems; exploited microfluidics for the high throughput formation of stable, monodisperse microdroplets; and integrated two contrasting modes of protocell construction to produce a novel hybrid model based on fatty acid membrane - bound coacervate micro-droplets.
However, unlike the parent strains, F1 hybrids do not breed true: the F2 offspring produced by mating F1 mice all have a unique random mixture of alleles from both parental strains.
They could produce iron particles as they grow, which could become components in electronics that are a hybrid of biology and machine.
These monkeys have successfully been producing hybrid offspring for hundreds maybe even thousands of years.
We have investigated the complex karyotype of a living zebra - donkey hybrid for the first time using chromosome - specific painting probes produced from flow - sorted chromosomes from a zebra (Equus burchelli) and horse (Equus caballus).
Penn State researchers have created a new hybrid technology that produces unprecedented amounts of electrical power where seawater and freshwater combine at the coast.
Berkeley Lab researchers using a bioinorganic hybrid approach to artificial photosynthesis have combined semiconducting nanowires with select microbes to create a system that produces renewable molecular hydrogen and uses it to synthesize carbon dioxide into methane, the primary constituent of natural gas.
For the production of the F1 IVC offspring, five females (C57BL / 6xCBA) of 8 — 10 wk of age were mated with each of five randomly selected F0 IVC males of 3 — 4 mo of age to produce F1 hybrid male offspring.
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