Sentences with phrase «wild relatives of»

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

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.

This work relies on natural variation for these traits that is present in cultivated tomato and in the 12 wild relatives of tomato that occur in South America.

The genetic traits that allow crops to overcome most, if not all, of these stresses can frequently be found in the wild relatives of rice.

«This opens the doors for rice breeders to harness genes from the wild relatives of rice, allowing us to improve crops with traits that are preferred by farmers and consumers.

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.

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.

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.

A few weeks ago, he flew to Guatemala, planning to spend two months gathering samples of plants that are wild relatives of the potato.

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.

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.

On Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2013, two speakers will describe the latest efforts to identify and protect the wild relatives of domesticated crop plants around the globe.

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.

Wild relatives of crops could be better suited to harsher climes, but efforts to collect and breed such crops are just beginning.

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

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.

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.

«The wild relatives of crop plants are the most promising reserves of genetic diversity,» say Eric Bishop von Wettberg, a plant biologist at the University of Vermont.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Their first effort involves transferring a gene from jointed goatgrass, a wild relative of wheat, to confer resistance to stripe rust.

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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.

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Thus a new generation of Terminator research is focused on biological containment to prevent engineered genetic traits (transgenes) from spreading to non-GM food plants and wild relatives.

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.

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 researchers conducted a series of mutations on the detected positively selected amino acid sites, and further investigated the resulting protein's structural and functional features as relative to its wild type.

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

With the longest legs relative to body size of any wild cat, the serval is also one of the fastest, able to run at speeds up to fifty miles per hour.

«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.»

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.

To investigate further, Michael Otterstatter and his colleagues at the University of Toronto, Canada, modelled the spread of the parasite from commercial bumble bees to their wild relatives.

Vines bend under the weight of massive tangles of wild grapes, and two introduced bands of Przewalski's horses — the closest living relatives of Europe's original horses — roam free.

But just like all wild plant species, these «crop wild relatives» (CWR) are also at risk of decline and extinction due to habitat loss, pollution, and climate change.

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.

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.