Sentences with phrase «using conventional breeding»

Using conventional breeding techniques, Borlaug's crucial breakthrough was crossing stubby - stalked dwarf wheat with high - yielding varieties, resulting in a plant that was both extremely productive — when given ample fertilizer — and strong enough to hold up under the weight of large clusters of grain.

Such enhanced wheat could be available in 2007; Dubcovsky and others plan to release wheat varieties created using conventional breeding techniques to incorporate the gene within a year.

The genetic improvement of Musa using conventional breeding, and modern tools of molecular and cellular biology

Using conventional breeding we've reduced the gluten content in this grain over 10,000 fold, such that it more than meets the World Health Organisation's recommendation for classification as gluten free.

If I used conventional breeding to produce a crop that was herbicide tolerant or GE to produce one, they would still be the same.

Many scientists are trying to unravel the complex crop genetics that allows these crops to tolerate environmental extremes, and they hope to use conventional breeding methods to create varieties that perform even better.

«From there, we used a conventional breeding approach, not GM techniques, and managed to increase the amylose content of wheat grain from around 20 or 30 per cent to an unprecedented 85 per cent,» says CSIRO's Dr. Ahmed Regina.

Not exact matches

Kebari barley was perfected over 13 years by scientists at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Australia by using conventional plant breeding methods.

Conventional breeding thus could not be used to develop Golden Rice.

However, surveys of rice germplasm around the world failed to identify any variety that contain significant amounts of beta carotene, so conventional breeding programs could not be used to develop Golden Rice.»

«Using a new approach of combining molecular identification of the SPIKE gene and conventional breeding, we have developed rice, with the SPIKE gene, that has higher yield when compared with an equivalent rice without the gene,» Dr. Kobayashi said.

Since none were found, conventional breeding programs could not be used to develop Golden Rice.

Using conventional plant breeding methods, our researchers have developed Kebari ® barley, a world - first barley grain that has 10,000 times less hordeins (the type of gluten found in barley) than regular barley.

Marker - assisted breeding is a conventional technique that allows breeders to track genes without using transgenic approaches.

Kebari ™ barley was developed by CSIRO scientists using conventional plant breeding methods and contains 10,000 times less gluten than regular barley.

Pike used only conventional breeding for his BetaSweet carrot, crossing seeds from Brazil to obtain a root with stellar taste and nutrition.

The research team used conventional plant breeding techniques to develop the plants into a «High Oleic Hemp» line and higher oleic acid content was demonstrated in a Yorkshire field trial.

In that case, a rival project using conventional means to breed resistance — although it will be weaker than the GM variety — may be a more acceptable compromise.

However, in most parts of the world, conventional dairying is associated with high levels of grain feeding, the use of cow breeds which produce high milk volumes, and the application of large amounts of fertilizer («high input» farming), while organic dairying is tied to pasture and forage feeding, lower amounts of fertilizer application, and the use of mixed or minority breeds («low input»).

Natural variation exists in the levels of pectate lyase gene expression in wild relatives of cultivated tomato and these can be used for conventional breeding purposes.

Using conventional plant breeding, tomato wild species can be readily crossed with the cultivated tomato.

The booklet discusses in detail and in simple language agricultural biotechnology as it compares with conventional breeding, the agricultural biotechnology tools used in crops such as tissue culture and micropropagation, molecular breeding and marker - assisted selection, and genetic engineering and GM crops.

Traditional methods used to limit the impact of MSD include insecticides to control leafhopper populations (which are not affordable to most small - scale farmers and can be environmentally damaging), and conventional selective breeding of maize for resistance traits that naturally exist in some varieties.

We use a process called biofortification, which adopts conventional breeding to improve crops.

On top of that, many hybrids are selectively bred to survive low levels of magnesium and most conventional fertilizers use nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorus, and do nothing to replenish magnesium levels.

Identify heifers that may be better used as recipients for high - quality embryos, bred with conventional semen or sold for other purposes

It turned out that it was safer and more precise than conventional breeding using mutagenesis for example; GM just moves a couple of genes, whereas conventional breeding mucks about with the entire genome in a trial and error way.

Giving his suggestions, he stressed the need for developing varieties (idealistic plants) from climate change perspective and introduction of new crops using conventional as well as mutation breeding through biotechnology and genetic engineering.