The booklet discusses in detail and in simple language agricultural biotechnology as it compares
with conventional breeding, the agricultural biotechnology tools used in crops such as tissue culture and micropropagation, molecular breeding and marker - assisted selection, and genetic engineering and GM crops.
By identifying genes that boost artemisinin yield, plants with a winning genotype can be recognised much earlier than
with conventional breeding, fast ‐ tracking the process.
Previous attempts to backcross this trait
with conventional breeding had always failed, reducing Swarna's taste or yield.
It was developed
with conventional breeding but is one of the major crops, including corn and soy, that have been made GMO to resist roundup and other herbicides.
Not exact matches
«Using a new approach of combining molecular identification of the SPIKE gene and
conventional breeding, we have developed rice,
with the SPIKE gene, that has higher yield when compared
with an equivalent rice without the gene,» Dr. Kobayashi said.
(b) any plant, descended from the plant referred to in paragraph (a), that is the result of
conventional breeding of that plant
with --
It was achieved by
conventional breeding methods to provide an oilseed rape (OSR) oil
with a specific fatty acid profile benefiting food processors, foodservice operators and consumers.
In fact, the FDA has ruled that because DNA is in every living organism, crops engineered
with added genes are «substantially the same» as other foods and are no different from crops genetically modified through
conventional breeding techniques.
Pike used only
conventional breeding for his BetaSweet carrot, crossing seeds from Brazil to obtain a root
with stellar taste and nutrition.
With this knowledge, Gasser observes, humans may be able to create other varieties of seedless fruits, such as cherimoyas and tomatoes, that have so far defied
conventional breeding techniques.
But maintaining a mosaic of GM and non-GM fields means pests that develop a tolerance can
breed with susceptible populations from
conventional fields, slowing the evolution of full - blown resistance.
The industry researchers identified thousands of genes associated
with drought tolerance, then incorporated them into their hybrids through
conventional breeding.
Using
conventional breeding techniques, Borlaug's crucial breakthrough was crossing stubby - stalked dwarf wheat
with high - yielding varieties, resulting in a plant that was both extremely productive — when given ample fertilizer — and strong enough to hold up under the weight of large clusters of grain.
However, in most parts of the world,
conventional dairying is associated
with high levels of grain feeding, the use of cow
breeds which produce high milk volumes, and the application of large amounts of fertilizer («high input» farming), while organic dairying is tied to pasture and forage feeding, lower amounts of fertilizer application, and the use of mixed or minority
breeds («low input»).
At Monsanto, the practice has become so common that, in a recent paper, the firm said «molecular marker assisted
breeding is becoming our
conventional breeding process,» noting that many of its commercial crops are derived
with the process.
Using
conventional plant
breeding, tomato wild species can be readily crossed
with the cultivated tomato.
The results, published in the academic journal Nature Biotechnology, could pave the way for new varieties of better tasting tomatoes
with improved postharvest life through
conventional plant
breeding.
Documentation of unexpected genetic changes that occur
with conventional plant
breeding.
«We are in urgent need of new ways to control insect pests on crops,
with very limited options available from pesticide sprays and
conventional breeding.
Conventional breeding practices are more difficult
with hybrid rice, making it more difficult to
breed for qualities like disease or pest resistance.
The 2016 Subaru Forester 2.5 i won't set any speed records
with its 170 horses, and while the CVT performs well for the
breed, it lacks the responsiveness of a good
conventional automatic.
Nonetheless it is quite small for a spaniel,
with fully - grown Cavaliers roughly comparable in size to an adolescent of a more
conventional spaniel
breed.
Sternberg departed from
conventional wisdom that says a dog's
breed should be considered in a temperament evaluation; instead, she said, all dogs should be considered as individuals
with no
breed - based dispensation for behavior she considers unacceptable for adoption.
Identify heifers that may be better used as recipients for high - quality embryos,
bred with conventional semen or sold for other purposes
Concluding, that the benefits from GM crops are much lower than can be obtained «
with either
conventional breeding or agro-ecology-based techniques» from just a tiny fraction of the investment in research.
It turned out that it was safer and more precise than
conventional breeding using mutagenesis for example; GM just moves a couple of genes, whereas
conventional breeding mucks about
with the entire genome in a trial and error way.
Efforts are already well underway to do the requisite genetic modification — mostly by
conventional selective
breeding — to try to extend that limit to keep pace
with a warming climate.
The UCS study found that while crop yields of DroughtGard did decrease crop losses by 6 % and would increase overall US corn production by 1 %,
conventional crop
breeding has been increasing drought tolerance by about 1 % per year for the past 10 years, while this
conventional breeding combined
with improved farming practices has been able to increase corn production by 1.5 - 2 % annually.