Sentences with phrase «wild gene pools»

One effort — the largest to date to systematically collect wild gene pools — is already underway in 17 countries.

This is important information because millions of farmed salmon escape into the wild — posing threats to wild gene pools.

The wild gene pool, tightly linked to the domesticate, is designated C. baccatum var.

Not exact matches

He's trying to expand the cultivated peanut's gene pool with genes from its wild cousins.

Part of this will involve extensive breeding programs (which work better in desert regions than in jungles, where there are lots of wild bees messing up the gene pool) and part will involve educating beekeepers and fighting a stereotype that African bees are always bad and European ones good.

«Our recovery could be stalled, at best, by failing to be able to insert a more diverse gene pool into the existing wild population.»

Making matters worse, the severe loss of wild honeybees due to mite infestation virtually eliminates any chance that feral drones will mate with commercial queens and liven up the gene pool.

Their future survival depends on a broader gene pool which includes not only earlier cultivars, but also material from wild varieties and the closest relatives of a species.

Here, scientists brought in a series of wild axolotls to mix up the gene pool and at one point even added in tiger salamanders (Ambystoma tigrinum).

Advances in tissue culture, molecular markers, and genomics offer new potential to broaden the gene pool of rice by tapping the genetic variability hidden in the wild species and further enhance the efficiency of alien gene introgression.

Many wild progenitors of domesticated animals have gone extinct or have experienced massive demographic bottlenecks (67), making them poor surrogates for the gene pool from which domesticated animals arose.

Ancient DNA allows tracking of past population histories through time, accessing the gene pools of wild animals predating domestication and exploring genetic variation that has been lost in extant populations.

Mating between domesticated dogs and wild wolves over hundreds of years has left a genetic mark on the wolf gene pool, new research has shown.

This is a collaboration with the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in the Philippines, and the objective is to use pre-breeding strategies to explore the genetic potential of wild and unadapted rice germplasm and to enlarge the gene pool that is utilized for routine plant improvement.

The population of heartworms not exposed to the drugs — heartworms living in wild canids such as wolves, foxes and coyotes, and in untreated domestic dogs — helps to dilute the heartworm gene pool, keeping the resistant genes from predominating.

Marr said he found support for his approach online — a beekeeper in Nebraska who recommends building a strong and diverse gene pool with wild bees instead of commercially bred mail - order shipments; minimizing pesticide exposure by locating the hives far away from cultivated farm fields; avoiding antibiotic and other chemical treatments to fight bee parasites and diseases, instead relying on beneficial fungi, bacteria and other components of a healthy hive system; and then raising queens and new bees from those bees that survive the first year.