Sentences with phrase «wild relatives»

A second part of the study will seek to understand drought tolerance in wild relatives of tomatoes.

Even though crop species have been moved all over the world, he says the historic home ranges of many crops are still relevant because wild relatives persist there.

Identifying and characterizing immunity - associated genes from wild relatives of tomato.

Because enhancing the conservation of crop wild relatives is one of the United Nations's Sustainable Development Goals, the authors suggest that the study's numbers could be used as a baseline for measuring progress toward meeting conservation goals.

[GM] has the advantage that it is far more controlled than making crosses with wild relatives,» said Langridge.

While corn and soy don't have close wild relatives in the United States, canola, another widely planted GM crop, does.

Concerns have been raised about the potential effects of transgenic introductions on the genetic diversity of crop landraces and wild relatives in areas of crop origin and diversification, as this diversity is considered essential for global food security.

The situation is so serious that one reason the Canadian Wheat Board is actively fighting the introduction of herbicide - resistant GE wheat, apart from market considerations, is that the species has many wild relatives that could forever become contaminated with herbicide resistance.»

The International Rice Genebank, maintained by IRRI, holds more than 127,916 rice accessions and 4,647 wild relatives as of January 2017.

In a new paper published this month, the team measured photosynthesis in 25 genotypes of wheat — including wild relatives of bread wheat (Triticum aestivum)-- and found variation exists even amongst closely related genotypes.

The low inbreeding coefficients inferred in domesticated apples and the low level of differentiation between cultivated and wild apple populations [40], [54], [67], [68] indicate a high frequency of crosses between individuals of M. domestica, M. sieversii and other wild relatives hailing from diverse geographic origins.

Expeditions to look for wild relatives of cocoa with useful characteristics date back to the 1930s, when botanists were hunting for plants resistant to witches» broom, a serious disease on cocoa farms.

But they also collected wild relatives of chickpeas in southeastern Turkey that hold «great promise,» von Wettberg says, as a source of new genes for traits like drought - resistance, resistance to pod - boring beetles, and heat tolerance.

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Capsicum Eximium, a closely related wild relative of Pubescens and other wild species like Chacoense and Pratermissum also over winter well.

«Despite their potential value in meeting the challenges of modern agriculture, few systematic, range - wide collections of wild relatives exist for any crop species,» the team of scientists write, «and even the available wild genetic resources are widely under - utilized for crop improvement.»

The introduced gene, from a South American wild relative of potato, triggers the plant's natural defense mechanisms by enabling it to recognize the pathogen.

Famously clever animals like chimps and monkeys seem to grieve for dead comrades, but now even wild relatives of pigs called peccaries have been seen mourning

«The gene banks are drastically underrepresenting wild relatives,» he warns.

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.

But Jarvis says it would be prudent to catalogue and store the genetic materials of various wild relatives of important crops — and set up suitable protected reserves — before climate change forces them to pack up and move 300 kilometers to find a suitably hospitable region again.

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 the past, virus - resistant wild relatives of sugarcane and rice have helped produce new varieties that averted millions of dollars in losses.

Wild Relative Ancestors or cousins of modern crops, usually the same species as their farmed counterparts.

A lumbering 20 - kilogram gobbler is twice the size of its largest wild relative — too heavy to fly, or even to mate.

Lost traits would be difficult to re-create, he says, because modern livestock lack living wild relatives — a reserve of potentially useful genes that has saved agricultural crops in the past.

Rattlesnake, zebra and peacock plants have a new wild relative, discovered by Rodolfo Flores, Panamanian botanist and intern at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI).

Under a grant from the Global Diversity Trust, we are using genomic tools to develop inter-specific introgression lines, novel genetic resources that are derived from crosses between diverse wild relatives and elite, high yielding varieties of both indica and japonica rice.

However, there has been a lot of research done on this subject and we do know quite a bit about the diets of the dog's closest wild relatives such as the wolf, coyote, and fox.

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There are pretty wild relative oscillations, but the average can be seen visually to be consistent around 0.2 C.

tomato collected during a recent outbreak of bacterial speck disease in New York; and 2) Identifying and characterizing immunity - associated genes from wild relatives of tomato.

By ignoring the potential that transgenic crops have to cross-breed with wild relatives, they risk imposing a monoculture on the diverse biological world.

Collecting crop wild relatives will require a massive global effort, the researchers suggest.

Canada is already having tremendous problems with genetically engineered canola, which has not only spread its herbicide - resistant trait to other canola, but is now affecting its many wild relatives, creating what are being termed «super weeds.»

Because wild relatives of the galliform chicken species are plentiful in Africa, this study required researchers to sift through the remnants of many small bird species to identify bones with the unique sizes and shapes that are characteristic of domestic chickens.

Its closest wild relative, Cicer reticulatum, is now only found in a few provinces of southeastern Anatolia in modern - day Turkey.

By comparing ancient and modern DNA from a domesticated animal as well as its nearest wild relatives, researchers can identify when specific genetic mutations associated with domestication arose.

Many tropical forest crops have been developed from genera that contain many other wild relatives.

In addition to his basic science programs, Jones has isolated and is isolating new resistance genes against potato late blight from wild relatives of potato, with the goal of using them to deliver market - favoured potato varieties that are protected from late blight by genes, rather than by chemistry.

Recognition of this had earned these wild relatives the label «the newest resource».

The wild relatives of commercial varieties, ranging from tomatoes to wheat, have provided genes worth billions of dollars in higher crop yields.

The International Rice Genebank, maintained by IRRI, holds more than 117,000 types of rice, including modern and traditional varieties, and wild relatives of rice.

Kernza, an intermediate wheatgrass with a sweet and nutty taste, is a perennial grain and wild relative of annual wheat.

The other, a wild relative of sugarcane (Saccharum spontaneum), provides hardiness to harsh environments and the ability to ratoon or produce additional profitable crops from re-growth after harvest.

Said to be a wild relative of the Rocoto.

Green sea turtle Nickel has a safe home at Shedd, but some of her wild relatives are at risk because they can be accidentally caught, and drowned, in fishing gear targeting shrimp or other commercial seafood species.