Sentences with phrase «useful traits»

This new technology allows us to pinpoint key genetic information relating to various useful traits in the sunflower, including wild sunflower species.

Although shrimp is not a great source of proteins, it has other useful traits such as being high in antioxidants, including copper and selenium.

The unique advantage of genetic modification lies in its ability to incorporate novel genes with useful traits into new rice varieties.

However, the most useful traits for genetic analysis are present in different forms in different individuals.

Such information would make breeding useful traits faster and more efficient.

While fighting together two of your characters develop a bond that unlocks useful traits and talents.

For example, plant breeders working to develop crops that can resist pests and diseases or higher temperatures often look to the broad range of plants and traditional crops in primary regions of diversity as sources of useful traits for crop improvement.

As cities are vastly different to natural habitats, and contain many new types of food, boldness is likely to be a very useful trait for urban birds to have.

I'm sure working together that you and your ex hubby will manage to get things back on track for your youngest (she sounds like a bit of a go - getter anyway... I often think in today's world «rat - cunning» is a far more useful trait than academic brilliance!)

Van Eenennaam explained that genetic engineering is a breeding tool that applies useful traits to many purposes, such as virus, drought and weed resistance.

BRIEF BACKGROUND The team of Dr Kshirod Jena at IRRI focuses on breaking yield barrier of rice and introducing useful traits from wild Oryza species into rice... Read more

In wild chickpea relatives, von Wettberg and the team — with support from USAID and the National Science Foundation — discovered many useful traits, including «striking resistance to insect pests,» he says.

From their many sizes and colors (vibrantly demonstrated by the potatoes on offer at the Bolivian market pictured above) along with genes that resist drought, wild relatives represent a genetic storehouse of potentially useful traits, such as the genes that allowed potatoes to recover from the blight that precipitated the Irish potato famine.

And researchers wonder if useful traits may have been unwittingly lost along the way.

That «too much detail» can lead to micromanagement, quests for perfectionism and other not so useful traits or outcomes in the workplace.

In Florida, CWR include Indian pumpkin, or Okeechobee gourd, an endangered wild relative of squash that grows only on the shores of Lake Okeechobee; and Florida gama grass, a source of disease resistance and other useful traits in corn that is only found in Florida and Cuba.

In subsequent breeding efforts, the breeders can quickly determine if new cultivars carry that trait or other useful traits for the next generation of cacao trees.

Beyond this, the unique power of GM lies in its ability to incorporate novel genes with useful traits for rice, including genes from plants and organisms unrelated to rice, into new rice varieties that can not be achieved using other breeding methods.

Lower is better in running economy, meaning Tadese is one of the most fuel - efficient runners ever seen — a very useful trait for a marathoner.

Icariin has been observed to exhibit a number of useful traits, including renoprotective (liver protecting) hepatoprotective (kidney protecting), cardioprotective (heart protecting) and neuroprotective (brain protecting) effects.

At first, he wondered if color among the colorblind spiders was a by - product of some more useful trait.

Flying insects, birds, and bats have all evolved the capacity of flight independently; they have thus «converged» on this useful trait.

Similarly, carriers in the Jackson study of one copy of the genes that cause sickle - cell disease — a useful trait against malaria in Africa — appear to be more at risk for kidney disease.

These fish have a travelling eye and swim on their sides in what is the most extreme example of vertebrate asymmetry — now we know how they develop this useful trait

The gene copies also hide natural variation in the wheat genome that could create opportunities to selectively breed plants with useful traits.

Lack of fear would have been a useful trait in farmed rabbits, says Pat Heslop - Harrison of the University of Leicester, UK.

«If we know what genes or ancestral species are involved in the evolution of the modern potato, we may be able to pull out useful traits,» she says, «and make a better potato.»

Such individuals have a higher evolutionary fitness, and the useful traits they possess become more common in the population because more of their offspring survive.

However, useful traits are not only those that give a survival advantage, but also those that increase a plant or animal's chance of reproducing.

Dogs who could convey meaning through sound — a useful trait to warn the cave clan that trouble was on the way — were favored.

Once, researchers assumed that ancient humans domesticated dogs on purpose, adopting wolf pups and breeding them for useful traits.

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The use of coil springs throughout also provides the Trailblazer with better suspension articulation, a useful trait in off - road conditions, in addition to providing passenger car - like handling dynamics on the road.

A full - grown Maltipoo's good nature is a very useful trait.

The large thick neck of the Labrador Retriever was a useful trait when the dogs were mostly used for hauling fishing nets back to fishermen's boats.

This categorization is maintained primarily through the strives of various Jack Russell kennel clubs around the world whose members are concerned with maintaining Jack Russell's as a working dog and don't want to allow breeders to put the emphasis on their looks instead of their other useful traits and characteristics.

While I concede this is a useful trait for an assassin, I kind of prefer the ambient shuffle of feet as Bayek's boots pad across the sand.

This means that a useful trait these days is the «courage to fear» — a phrase used in a recent discussion of tipping points by Allan Shearer, an architecture professor at the University of Texas, Austin, who studies how humans design the future as much as he designs structures.

Due to the shape of the craft, especially at such high speeds, the wings also provide lift; a useful trait for an aircraft, but very hazardous for a car.

Moreover, the floater plan ensures a sum assured of Rs. 3 Lac as against the sum of Rs. 1 Lac offered under individual plans which can be a useful trait in case of major health problems for which the treatment cost might go beyond Rs. 1 Lac.

The AnyLight display is another useful trait of the Moto 360 Sport that makes this ideal for those who exercise, especially outside as the direct sunlight won't have as much of an effect on the visibility of the content on the display at the time.

While it's certainly a useful trait for conquering a case of interview - induced jitters, we have to admit that acknowledging the elephant in the room is one of the harder solutions for overcoming nervousness.

Planning ahead is always a useful trait, especially when it comes to company projects.

Highlight accomplishments, useful traits, and two to three skills, and include your professional title.