Sentences with phrase «through plant breeding»

The vast majority of the ornamental plants on the market are created through plant breeding.

In particular, if focuses on the following areas: reducing methane emissions from ruminant animals by modification of plant composition; reducing nitrous oxide emissions by making the use of nitrogen more efficient both in terms of going from soil to plant and in the animal; enhancing carbon sequestration through plant breeding; reducing emissions from fertiliser production.

Soybean improvement through plant breeding has been critical over the years for the success of the crop.

Not exact matches

Through traditional plant breeding and a proprietary seed, Master's Touch ® developed a small pepper with a sweet taste, good texture and uniform «thumb» size.

Even if you go through the cycle of selecting generations of pods, you are still breeding plants that descend from just two original plants.

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.

As the world struggles to feed a growing population, shrinking maize plants through breeding might increase yields

The big seed companies had no interest in these poor man's crops, but I knew that science could have an impact on our lives by solving these plant problems through breeding and biotechnology.»

But research teams around the world have been trying, through selective breeding or genetic manipulation, to coax the coffee plant into omitting the caffeine in the first place.

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 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.

«This is great news because preharvest sprouting is a very difficult trait for wheat breeders to handle through breeding alone,» said Bikram Gill, university distinguished professor of plant pathology and director of the Wheat Genetics Resource Center.

Through enhancing plants» resilience against drought and disease and through breeding crops with higher yields, CRISPR - Cas technology may be a critical tool in fighting the world's food shortage Through enhancing plants» resilience against drought and disease and through breeding crops with higher yields, CRISPR - Cas technology may be a critical tool in fighting the world's food shortage through breeding crops with higher yields, CRISPR - Cas technology may be a critical tool in fighting the world's food shortage crisis.

The statement clarifies that this means the body will not regulate plants that undergo a variety of genetic changes, including genetic deletions, single base pair substitutions, or insertions from compatible plant relatives that could be generated through traditional plant breeding.

Humans have been altering animals and plants through selective breeding for millennia; but, because these changes typically reduce the capacity for survival and reproduction in the wild, they do not spread to wild populations.

Because we are cutting and pasting genes into plants that normally would not be present through traditional cross breeding and into these supposedly useless non-coding regions, what are we really doing to our food?

Through irrigation, fertiliser, pesticides, and plant breeding, the Green Revolution increased world grain production by an astonishing 250 per cent between 1950 and 1984, raising the calorie intake of the world's poorest people and averting severe famines.

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.

A Horticulturist is a person who is involved in the science and research of plant cultivation through genetic engineering, plant breeding, crop production, cutting tubers and planting of seeds.