Sentences with phrase «traits of agricultural crops»

Using integrated bioinformatics and genomics approaches to understand important traits of agricultural crops.

Not exact matches

Digital plants like these are part of a new movement in agricultural science called «in silico,» where researchers design highly accurate, computer - simulated crops to help speed up selective breeding, in which plants are chosen and replanted to amplify their desirable traits.

Mark Howden, head of agricultural climate adaptation projects at CSIRO in Canberra, oversees projects to develop new farming systems that reduce water seepage and new crops bred with genetic traits suited to hotter, drier conditions and elevated carbon dioxide.

Lost traits would be difficult to re-create, he says, because modern livestock lack living wild relatives — a reserve of potentially useful genes that has saved agricultural crops in the past.

That is why they have put the business up for sale, so they can «focus on the company's key profit drivers of agricultural seeds and development of specific genetic traits for crops.»