Sentences with phrase «traditional breeding»

The question is, Do we assume the technology is safe based on an argument that it's just a minor extension of traditional breeding, or do we prove it?

There are rules that govern how genes come together and come apart in traditional breeding.

From here, an optimized gene modification is introduced into crop species through genetic engineering or advanced traditional breeding methods so that they in turn exhibit the improved trait.

A new green revolution is starting, based upon traditional breeding but with an eye on the genome.

Evidence shows that traditional breeding causes more DNA disruption, and therefore has a greater potential of forming new transcripts and new proteins.

So you don't see genetic engineering of crops to be an extension of traditional breeding?

But this happens all the time in traditional breeding.

Generally, though, scientists hold that food containing GMOs are just as safe to consume as food that comes from crops modified through traditional breeding techniques.

After 12 years of traditional breeding with the help of molecular markers, he has created a new rainbow - streaked tomato less prone to cracking and also endowed with 12 disease - resistant genes.

It won't prevent the release of crops created using CRISPR, for instance, so long as the final product is something that could've been developed through traditional breeding techniques and it's not a plant pest or achieved with the help of plant pests.

Thanks to the precise testing of Pm3 alleles, the best variations and combinations are identified and can then be used directly in traditional breeding by crossbreeding them into modern wheat varieties.

In their marketing, BASF advises farmers that Clearfield wheat is the product of «enhanced traditional breeding methods.»

«We have far more powerful tools like traditional breeding and agroecology,» Mellon said.

Many previous studies have focussed on the urban nesting grounds and the gulls» behaviour around landfill refuse sites, but this is one of the first large - scale studies to investigate the use of cities by gulls in traditional breeding colonies and their contribution to these «nuisance events».

Doug Gurian - Sherman, senior scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists in Washington, D.C., and a former regulator for the Environmental Protection Agency, likens traditional breeding to rearranging the deck chairs on a familiar ship.

«If you make a cross using traditional breeding techniques, you don't get anything that resembles the original parent grape in terms of flavor or taste,» Gray says.

Stein says the information embedded in the newly available genomes will accelerate the development of improved rice strains through traditional breeding practices as well as with the aid of new genetic technologies.

Their aim is to create high ‐ yielding Artemisia varieties by using molecular technology to accelerate traditional breeding strategies.

Our expert dog and cat grooming services include massaging hydrosurge bubble baths, keratin treatments, polished manicures, hair coloring, traditional breed specific haircuts, and so much more!

The reduction in number was linked to a progressive abandonment of traditional breeding sites: a typical example is the Elephant Point area of Saunders Island (from about four hundreds breeding females in 1981 to less than ten in 1997, with a net production probably equal to 0; Poole - Evans, pers.

Enhanced traditional breeding methods?

We're asked to accept, for example, that it's safe to eat food containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) because, the experts point out, there's no evidence that it isn't and no reason to believe that altering genes precisely in a lab is more dangerous than altering them wholesale through traditional breeding.

It is also amazing to me how quickly some have dismissed the virtues of traditional breeding — the technology that, after all, made the U.S. into an agricultural powerhouse.

They investigated sequence patterns in this region in the different jujube lines, to provide guidelines for parent selection for crossbreeding, the first step in traditional breeding.

Heritage turkeys are the traditional breeds of turkeys which have not been «industrialized» for efficient factory farm production at the expense of flavor and the well - being of the turkeys.

It was a key target of the NPS» welfare work, vital if this traditional breed of pony was to survive.

The increase in yields for both crops over the past 13 years, the report found, was largely attributable to traditional breeding or improvements in agricultural practices.

The intact gene could be crossed back into tomatoes by traditional breeding, says Powell.

My apples are through traditional breeding, but I am supportive of transgenic technologies.

But most had been developed using a time - consuming process — one that exposed the fish to chemicals that may generate random genetic mutations, identified those that happened to have a mutation of interest, and then generated mutant strains through traditional breeding.

It appears that evidently Russian ladies like overseas gentlemen instead of their traditional breed.

These breeds are traditional breeds and we've come to associate them with specific types of names inspired by their appearance and pedigree.

If you already have a young dog that has a natural alert for your medical conditions then that's definitely a time to not concern yourself with looking for the traditional breeds.

These dogs weave through the traditional breed groups making a pretty tapestry of shapes, sizes, and histories.

Breeding for tail type The ASHGI survey found that when the tail length of the mate with which the dog produced NBTs was known 67 % were NBT, indicating that breeders in countries with docking bans may be favoring NBT dogs for breeding in hopes of producing puppies with the traditional breed appearance.

Many of these newcomers did not adhere to the traditional breeding goals of the old - time APBT breeders.

Should you get a German Shepherd Lab Mix puppy or you should stick to the traditional breeds with long histories?

2) Avoid larger - than - life litters — those from parents that exceed their traditional breed standard size.

Among those breeds that have declined in popularity are traditional breeds that are on the Kennel Club's list of Native British and Irish Vulnerable Breeds, because they number less than 300 annual registrations per year, and risk disappearing from our streets and parks.

They think they're so special, what with their cute little walk and funny bobbing head and annual death - defying journey across the pitiless frozen deserts of Antarctica, during which they abandon the safety of the ocean to journey to their traditional breeding grounds in the middle of a region so desolate, so bleak and perilous, it supports no other form of life.

That means giving plants traits like resistance to disease, chemicals or flooding and bigger seeds is A-OK, since those could be achieved at a much slower rate with traditional breeding.