Sentences with phrase «wheat breeder in»

In an article from MSU News, Dr. Luther Talbert, a spring wheat breeder in MSU's Department of Plant Sciences and Plant Pathology, states that «The goal of the spring wheat breeding program is try to be steps ahead of what's next... There are always pests and diseases, but climate and temperature changes are variable and hard to forecast.

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The center honors the 1970 Peace Nobel Laureate Norman Borlaug, a renowned wheat breeder who helped lead the first green revolution in the 1960s and avert widespread famine in India.

Researchers anticipate this will help wheat breeders design wheat varieties that can adapt and thrive in changing environments around the world.

Wheat breeder Jorge Dubcovsky of the University of California, Davis, led an international team that discovered the gene — dubbed gpc - B1 for its effect on grain protein content — in a wild emmer wheat that has grown naturally in the Middle East for milleWheat breeder Jorge Dubcovsky of the University of California, Davis, led an international team that discovered the gene — dubbed gpc - B1 for its effect on grain protein content — in a wild emmer wheat that has grown naturally in the Middle East for millewheat that has grown naturally in the Middle East for millennia.

Instead of seeing a favorable trait in a field and searching for its genes, modern breeders search a wheat genome and attribute a genetic sequence to a trait.

A new paper from scientists at the John Innes Centre in Norwich explains why plant breeders have found it difficult to produce wheat varieties which combine high yield and good resistance to Septoria, a disease in wheat which can cut yield losses by up to 50 %.

The resource, a collection of wheat seeds with more than 10 million sequenced and carefully catalogued genetic mutations, is freely available to wheat breeders and researchers, and is already aiding in the development of wheat plants with improved traits.

To maintain food security, wheat breeders are working to develop plants that offer more nutritional value, have greater yields, and can thrive in a changing climate.

«When it comes to tech transfer, it's often a one - size - fits - all model, dominated by patents,» says wheat breeder P. Stephen Baenziger of the University of Nebraska in Lincoln.

The sequencing of goat grass DNA opens the way for wheat breeders to apply a number of advanced approaches to improve the speed and precision of wheat breeding for important traits that may be found in the goat grass segment of the wheat genome.

«The Bread Lab strives to keep the value derived from agriculture in the region where it's produced,» said Jones, widely regarded as one of the nation's premier wheat breeders.

Focusing initially on five staple crops — wheat, rice, maize, sorghum and chickpea — the project seeks to empower public plant breeders to use genome - wide approaches to model plant performance in real time using tools that can be shared across diverse species and regions of the world.

As Montana's climate is projected to warm in the coming decades, spring wheat breeders at MSU are focusing on conventional breeding techniques to boost tolerance to drought and hotter temperatures in spring wheat varieties.

After preliminary work in 1943, plant breeders, soil scientists, plant pathologists, and entomologists working as a team, began a concentrated attack on the various aspects of wheat production in 1944.