Sentences with phrase «traditional crop breeding»

A feature review, to be published on December 16th in the Cell Press journal Trends in Plant Science, points the way to intensifying agriculture sustainably by fixing weaknesses that have sprung up quite by accident in the process of traditional crop breeding over the course of thousands of years.

That human selection of favorable traits continues, both through traditional crop breeding and through the more targeted use of genetic engineering.

Not exact matches

Dr Henrik Stotz said: «As traditional methods of controlling crop disease become less effective, the need to breed new strains of crops with an inbuilt resistance to the disease pathogens increases.

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.

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

But it appears that, to date, traditional plant breeding boosts crop yields better than genetic modification.

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.

Some may still crop because it's traditional for the breed, but I just don't see the point if it's not a working dog where in - tact ears may pose a greater risk of pain and infection than cropped ears ever would.

In some countries, docking and cropping are now illegal, but in some breed shows Dobermans are allowed to compete only if they have the traditional look.

Barn Hunt is based on the traditional roles of many breeds in ridding farms, barns, crop storage areas, and homes of destructive vermin.

It is great fun for both dog and handler and is based on the traditional roles that many breeds have in ridding farms, barns, crop storage areas, and homes of destructive vermin.

From an environmentally degraded monoculture, they transformed the farm by switching to native breeds, Highland cattle and Hebridean sheep, growing traditional crops such as oats in the sheaf for winter fodder.