Sentences with phrase «wild relatives in»

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

For example, the engineered salmon outcompete their wild relatives in the cushy tanks where food is plentiful.

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.

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Here's a graph covering few months of the relative value of bitcoins against US dollars; as you can see, there have been wild fluctuations in the value over the past two months.

We have identified ourselves so completely with majestic eagles soaring off into the sun and the «wild blue yonder» that it has not been easy to admit a finiteness — relative to the infinities that surround us — in which we are really more like chickadees, or dull gray sparrows.

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

Generally speaking, the wild relatives of crops harbor high levels of genetic diversity, which is very advantageous in the wild, where the plants are subject to ever - changing growing conditions.

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The Jets, the poor relatives in New York, won a wild one from Miami and now appear ready to challenge the Giants» longtime hold on the fans

Wild fennel, a relative of licorice, grows in disturbed areas in Northern California and other parts of the country: you may be able to harvest it yourself along the bike paths.

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.

The Hochul - Wu battle is a wild card, since both candidates are relative unknowns, though Hochul has a leg up on her opponent in WNY after serving as Erie County clerk and (albeit briefly) a congresswoman.

In wild chickpea relatives, von Wettberg and the team — with support from USAID and the National Science Foundation — discovered many useful traits, including «striking resistance to insect pests,» he says.

«Genetic limits threaten chickpeas, a globally critical food: New research shows promise in improving crops with use of wild relatives.»

«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.»

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.

Research in families of wild seabirds reveals for the first time how parasite infection in some can have a serious effect on how well their relatives do.

Sartore wants to publicise the plight of these species, some of which are no longer easily photographed in the wild, and some of which receive less publicity than their more charismatic relatives.

This sample of recent environmental films includes looks at the ecological effects of roads and top predators, the impact of climate change on a native village in the Arctic, a search for seeds of wild relatives of staple foods, and the fate of solar panels from Jimmy Carter's White House.

A new study shows that salmon genetically modified to grow 25 times larger than their wild relatives end up far punier when reared in a natural - looking environment.

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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.

Generally, any mutations that are widespread in domestic plants and animals but absent from their wild relatives are assumed to have played a key role in the process, spreading as people and their livestock moved across the globe.

A new study published in Transactions of the American Fisheries Society discusses the ability of eDNA to accurately predict the presence, relative abundance, and biomass of wild Brook Trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) populations.

A favorite target of his arrows is the alula, a cyanea relative found in the wild on Kauai's cliffs.

The big cats could return to do the job they once did in Brazil's grassland — hunt a growing population of wild pig relatives, called peccaries, that decimates crop yields

Some 70 % of the wild populations examined by the study, including the relatives of banana, cassava, wheat, and sorghum, are considered high priority for collection; 300 could not be located in any gene bank.

It focuses on securing the wild relatives of 29 of 64 crops that are listed in an annex to the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.

Luigi Guarino of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, a co-author of the paper, agreed: «Traditional crop varieties and their wild relatives found in one small part of the world could potentially be of use all over the world.

Other suggested projects include studies of Arctic ecosystems subject to pollution from Russian factories; surveys of wild relatives of crops in South America; studies of the food potential of fish in African lakes; and investigation of the greenheart tree in Guyana as a raw material for pharmaceutical use.

Scientists have been attempting to link traits that distinguish domesticated animals from their wild relatives to specific changes in their genomes.

This was apparent in the increasing levels of inbreeding found amongst domesticates, but also through an enhanced accumulation of deleterious mutations in their genomes relative to the ancient wild horses.

Poached ivory fetches at least $ 165 million a year in Asia while our closest living relatives — great apes like chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans — are being kidnapped from the wild and sold to private collectors.

This means the Nottingham group can transfer these tiny bits of genetic information from the wild relatives into wheat on a large scale creating a step change in the search for new varieties of wheat that will cope with disease and climate change and help feed a growing population.

Take the wild and distant relatives of bread wheat, transfer any agronomically important traits you can find into modern varieties of wheat and distribute the newly created germplasm worldwide for exploitation in international breeding programmes and scientific research.

It is the wild relatives of crops which contain genes for resistance to disease and pests, stock for use in grafting and characteristics to improve the properties of the crops themselves.

Small passerines are commonly kept in cages, and may be capable of seeing roughly as fast as their wild relatives.

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.

The low intensity amber light was shown to inhibit, rather than induce, flowering in greater bird's foot trefoil, a wild relative of peas and beans that is a key source of food for the pea aphid in grasslands and road verges.

He works at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, but does his field studies in Utah, where the plant, a wild relative of cultivated tobacco, grows.

«Continuing research at LEC is investigating natural variability in the efficiency of Rubisco in different types of wheat and wild wheat relatives.

Their belugas have shorter lives than wild relatives, and the facilities have had mixed results breeding them in captivity.

The relative abundance of elk, roe deer, red deer, and wild boar within the exclusion zone are now similar to those in four uncontaminated nature reserves in the region, the researchers report.

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.

Japanese star anise (Illicium anisatum), a close relative, is severely toxic and has poisoned people who picked it by mistake, so it would be unwise to harvest this one in the wild.

Numbers represent percent increases relative to wild type mice and were calculated from the data shown in Table 1.

In the current paper, Hind used Yellow Pear tomatoes together with a wild relative of tomato called Solanum pimpinellifolium to identify the FLS3 gene and show how it functions to reduce bacterial growth.

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.

In other organisms, such an understanding is usually achieved by comparing the genomes of domesticated species and their wild relatives (4 ⇓ — 6), but this approach is not directly applicable to horses.

This discovery is outlined in the article Genomes of 13 domesticated and wild rice relatives highlight genetic conservation, turnover and innovation across the genus Oryza published by Nature Genetics.