Sentences with phrase «variety of the new breed»

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The breeding and development of new chile varieties — in addition to research into wild species, post - harvest packaging, and genetics — is an on - going, major project at New Mexico Stanew chile varieties — in addition to research into wild species, post - harvest packaging, and genetics — is an on - going, major project at New Mexico StaNew Mexico State.

In 1907, Fabian Garcia, a horticulturist at the Agricultural Experiment Station at the College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts (now New Mexico State University), began his first experiments in breeding more standardized chile varieties, and, in 1908, published «Chile Culture,» the first chile bulletin from the Agricultural Experiment Station.

Ever since the domestication of the five Capsicum species, with chile breeding, human choice is the most important factor in the development of new varieties.

Most of these varieties are no longer found when picking in commercial apple orchards, giving way to newer varieties bred for better production.

The new rice was bred by successfully crossing (or mating) two different rice parents — the exotic wild rice species Oryza coarctata and rice variety IR56 of the cultivated rice species O. sativa.

This year, IRRI established a new and relevant rice breeding factory, deciphered the information found in 3,000 sequenced rice genomes, helped in marketing the Philippines» unique indigenous «heirloom» rice varieties to the outside world, distributed climate - smart rice varieties to reduce Asian farmers» risks, and celebrated 150 consecutive knowledge - filled cropping seasons of the Long - Term Continuous Cropping Experiment.

We use new approaches for increasing yield potential, such as marker - assisted breeding to develop the next generation of rice varieties suited for irrigated environments in Asia.

The genetic diversity of rice is used to breed new rice varieties.

A 2011 report from the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research found that between 1985 and 2009, IRRI varieties and breeding lines contributed, on average, 50 % of the annual yield increases in southern Vietnam and the use of new varieties increased Vietnamese rice farmers» income by US$ 127 per hectare (in 2009 values) per year during the study period.

«Rice genetics is all about understanding the genes of rice so that we can develop new and improved rice varieties to help farmers produce more rice, with fewer resources and despite challenges like climate change,» said event convener, Dr. Eero Nissila, head of the Plant Breeding, Genetics, and Biotechnology Division at IRRI.

What new varieties of fresh produce can be bred that provide a long shelf life for fresh cut products?

From there, the researchers worked to create breeding lines for new varieties that would capture the original flavor of the chiles while making improvements to help farmers stay competitive.

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.

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.

Research collaboration is ongoing, including pest and disease management, sustainable farming systems, and conserving the genetic diversity of rice, with breeding new rice varieties remaining a priority.

One hundred years ago, in 1907, Garcia began the chile - breeding work that would ultimately lead to the release, in 1921, of New Mexico No. 9 — the first standardized variety of the now - familiar New Mexico chile pepper.

The shark fins and T - wings weren't meant to appear on 2017s new breed of F1 cars, but a loophole in the rules was exploited by the teams and we ended up with a variety of different designs and solutions.

Classical plant breeding uses deliberate interbreeding (crossing) of closely or distantly related individuals to produce new crop varieties or lines with desirable properties.

The greatest U.S. food technologist was arguably Luther Burbank, who bred 30,000 new varieties of plums before he came up with his pitless prune and destroyed who knows how many thousands of failed seedlings before unveiling his white blackberry and his spineless cactus.

That would speed up both breeding of new varieties and the production of hybrid seedlings — a flexibility that farmers and consumers could both appreciate.

The study, conducted using fruit fly populations bred to model natural variations in human sleep patterns, provides new clues to how genes for sleep duration are linked to a wide variety of biological processes.

«It makes it much easier for researchers working with barley to be focused on attainable objectives, ranging from new variety development through breeding to mechanistic studies of genes.»

«Thus research and agricultural policy should support and invest in advanced breeding and modelling approaches and their integration for accelerating delivery of new diverse varieties of wheat for the different future environments,» argues Reimund Rötter.

Because the abnormality shows up in genetically identical clones, «it's impossible to attack genetically,» an approach often taken when a crop has a bad trait that can be bred out of that variety, says study co-author Robert Martienssen, a plant geneticist at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York.

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Breeding those traits takes 12 to 14 years, says Texas A&M program director J. Creighton Miller Jr., but you won't have to wait that long to see one of the program's newest creations, a variety called peppermint.

Growers around the world cultivate only three varieties of cacao, she says, because they usually can't afford breeding programs to create new fungus - resistant hybrids.

We also need to develop an organic farming concept and breed new varieties with higher concentrations of the oils, says Kai Grevsen, adding that he and his colleagues also collaborate with an organic herb producer who makes fields and a drying facility available for part of the experiment.

The 50 researchers also call on the federal government to provide better funding for crop breeding efforts at public universities, and for universities to develop new ways of steering revenues from popular crop varieties back into research.

But Heidi Harley, a comparative psychologist at the New College of Florida in Sarasota who has studied cetaceans at a variety of marine parks and was advising SeaWorld on improving its orca enclosure in San Diego, California, says important work on breeding and physiology was being done.

The results, published in the academic journal Nature Biotechnology, could pave the way for new varieties of better tasting tomatoes with improved postharvest life through conventional plant breeding.

Dr Charles Baxter from Syngenta said: «This discovery has relevance for the development of new tomato varieties via conventional plant breeding and is a significant step forward in understanding processes involved in fruit development, allowing more refined control of this process in plant breeding.»

In a new study that traces the genetic changes in varieties over the last 80 years of soybean breeding, researchers concluded that increases in yield gains and an increased rate of gains over the years are largely due to the continual release of greater - yielding cultivars by breeders.

Plant breeding is the genetic improvement of the crop in order to develop new varieties with desirable characters (traits)-- higher yield, resistance to diseases, better nutrition (higher micronutrient content).

Using «marker assisted breeding» that tracks the signature of water - efficiency genes, he has been able to accelerate the breeding of new drought tolerant chickpea varieties.

In addition, in collaboration with Irwin Goldman, Claire developed eight intellectual - property - free populations of carrot germplasm based upon market and color classes and released them as OSSI - Pledged varieties, thus providing ideal sources of material that all interested can use to breed new open source carrot varieties.

A 2011 report from the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research found that between 1985 and 2009, IRRI varieties and breeding lines contributed, on average, 50 % of the annual yield increases in southern Vietnam and the use of new varieties increased Vietnamese rice farmers» income by US$ 127 per hectare (in 2009 values) per year during the study period.

We employ the same breeding approaches and methods as those in Asia, to develop new generations of high - yielding varieties suited to irrigated areas in Africa.

Makassane, a new IRRI - bred rice variety released in Mozambique in 2011, has improved resistance to blast - a major disease of the country.

′ Our results offer little hope of conventionally breeding or identifying new varieties of blood orange that are free from cold dependency, ′ Professor Martin said.

Please note: Many people have confused this topic, but new types of produce such as tangelos, seedless watermelons, seedless cucumbers and other new varieties of fruit and vegetables are created by natural breeding, not genetic modification, so these foods are fine to eat.

Over the following years and decades, this new breed was used for a variety of purposes, including companionship, herding and fighting other dogs in small rings, called «pits.»

He bred a variety of rabbits (such as Havanas and Tortoise Papillon) to create this new breed of rabbit and named it after where he lived, Thrianta.

Four varieties of the Belgian Shepherd Dog are recognised as four distinct breeds by the New Zealand Kennel Club.

Though it is one of the newer brands on the market, Nulo offers a variety of high - quality pet food products including this small - breed recipe.

Royal Canin puppy food has taken puppy food science to a new level with a variety of dry puppy food recipes for mini to maxi size puppies, adjusted in vitamins, minerals and nutrients for the unique nutritional needs of each dog breed.

When becoming a fully recognized AKC breed, we had to come into the registry as a separate breed rather than a size variation of Australian Shepherd, due to AKC's new regulations on size varieties.

Building on the popularity of our small breed recipe, Whole Earth Farms is adding new recipes to give pet parents, like you, the variety their small breed dogs seek — it includes two new grain free dry and 5 grain free wet recipes.

This relatively new breed tends to be of the fluffy, cuddly variety, but there's a lot of variation in these dogs, as well.

This relatively new breed tends to be of the fluffy, cuddly variety, but there's a lot of variation in these dogs, as -LSB-...]