Sentences with phrase «used by plant breeders»

But it is the network of 1,700 workhorse gene banks worldwide, including Vavilov's Institute and ICARDA, that actually maintain the flow of seeds used by plant breeders to develop new crop varieties.

Not exact matches

If electricity use continues to double every nine years, huge amounts of power will have to come from 500 years» worth of coal supplies and lots of nuclear power plants — by this time possibly breeder or fusion plants.

By selecting the best performing rice plants and using them to breed new rice varieties, rice farmers, and more recently rice breeders, have been changing the genetic composition of rice to generate new and improved rice varieties for thousands of years.

the new information enabled the researchers to clarify aspects of the barley genome that are important in the context of genome evolution and for practical use of genome knowledge by plant breeders and basic researchers — namely, the locations of gene - rich regions including some that have low recombination

With multiyear field studies, Xue identified plant traits related to drought tolerance, which can be used by breeders to develop drought - tolerant wheat cultivars and geneticists to screen molecular markers and speed the breeding process.

By studying the carbon isotope compositions of barley plants and their relationship with water - use efficiency, the researchers developed tools that plant breeders can use to improve selection efficiency for more water - efficient varieties.