Sentences with phrase «through conventional breeding»

Understanding drought - responsive signaling and the molecular and biochemical mechanisms of drought tolerance in model plants such as Arabidopsis and rice provide new insight into how to develop drought - tolerant crop plants through conventional breeding or biotechnological approaches.»

The industry researchers identified thousands of genes associated with drought tolerance, then incorporated them into their hybrids through conventional breeding.

For example, the bill states that in order to require a label, foods must «contain genetic material that has been modified through in vitro recombinant deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) techniques» and «could not otherwise be obtained through conventional breeding or found in nature.»

In fact, the FDA has ruled that because DNA is in every living organism, crops engineered with added genes are «substantially the same» as other foods and are no different from crops genetically modified through conventional breeding techniques.

Some soybean varieties have resistance to the tiny parasitic worms through conventional breeding of naturally occurring resistance genes, but the current level of resistance is becoming less reliable.

Through conventional breeding, scientists scoured rice's rich diversity for a gene that gives flood - tolerance.

Not exact matches

Breeding two highly endangered animals or subspecies through conventional mating is a difficult and often futile undertaking.

The results, published in the academic journal Nature Biotechnology, could pave the way for new varieties of better tasting tomatoes with improved postharvest life through conventional plant breeding.

Giving his suggestions, he stressed the need for developing varieties (idealistic plants) from climate change perspective and introduction of new crops using conventional as well as mutation breeding through biotechnology and genetic engineering.