Sentences with phrase «with plant breeding»

The Victorian students partnered with the nursery because of their experience with plant breeding and propagation.

Modern food technology with plant breeding, separation, condensation of food ingredients, heating, freezing, drying, irradiation, microwaving, are effective tool to counteract optimal immune function, and suspected to be a leading cause of so called Western diseases.

Genetic modification is not to be confused with plant breeding and hybridizing.

Not exact matches

To that end, the UCS has put work into showing modern plant - breeding techniques can compete with genetic modification technologies.

Like fellow Bay area start - up Geltor, Perfect Day is one of a new breed of companies in the «cellular agriculture» business — using genetically engineered yeasts that have been «programmed» to produce proteins or other ingredients found in plants or animals - on an industrial scale, without raising animals, and with less impact on the environment.

«I am delighted with our success in breeding a Golden Rice version of Bangladesh's most popular rice variety, BRRI dhan29, which we hope will make a substantial contribution to reducing vitamin A deficiency across the country,» said Dr. Alamgir Hossain, principal plant breeder at BRRI.

«Rice is an incredibly special crop providing more than half of the planet with food every day,» said Dr. Eero Nissilä, head of IRRI's Plant Breeding, Genetics, and Biotechnology Division and convenor of RG7.

«Rice genetics is all about understanding the genes of rice so that we can develop new and improved rice varieties to help farmers produce more rice, with fewer resources and despite challenges like climate change,» said event convener, Dr. Eero Nissila, head of the Plant Breeding, Genetics, and Biotechnology Division at IRRI.

Beyond this, the unique power of GM lies in its ability to incorporate novel genes with useful traits for rice, including genes from plants and organisms unrelated to rice, into new rice varieties that can not be achieved using other breeding methods.

Through traditional plant breeding and a proprietary seed, Master's Touch ® developed a small pepper with a sweet taste, good texture and uniform «thumb» size.

Cuba then began a system of participatory plant breeding whereby trials were conducted by farmers themselves on their own land in collaboration with researchers.

(b) any plant, descended from the plant referred to in paragraph (a), that is the result of conventional breeding of that plant with --

But in the comfort of a laboratory and a greenhouse, a plant breeder can create a wild peanut hybrid capable of breeding with the cultivated peanut.

Classical plant breeding uses deliberate interbreeding (crossing) of closely or distantly related individuals to produce new crop varieties or lines with desirable properties.

Transgenic plants are plants that have been genetically engineered, a breeding approach that uses recombinant DNA techniques to create plants with new characteristics.They are identified as a class of genetically modified organism (GMO).

Pioneer Hi - Bred International of Des Moines, Iowa, and Dow AgroSciences in Indianapolis, for example, had invested heavily in developing a sunflower seed with a Bt gene that helps plants fight off insects.

Engineered organisms that can not breed with wild counterparts could prevent transgenic plants from spreading genes

The space isn't only confined to pharma either, as science company DuPont also formed alliances with Lithuania's Vilnius University and Caribou Biosciences, with a specific interest in plant breeding and agricultural applications.

Planting refuges near Bt crops reduces the chances that two resistant insects will mate with each other, making it more likely they will breed with a susceptible mate, yielding offspring that are killed by the Bt crop.

Gentry added that the researchers hypothesize that corn yields can be further increased in a sustainable way, even beyond the results demonstrated in this study, with continued crop breeding efforts, advancements in fertilizer formulations and placement technology, and possibly, with the development of effective plant growth promoters, she said.

Prof Inzé (VIB - Ghent University): «This study provided major insights into how plants cope with water - limiting conditions, which can direct advanced breeding and genome engineering efforts to create high - performing, drought - tolerant crop plants.

In 2011, Israeli researchers bred a strain of the plant loaded with CBD specifically for therapeutic use.

The study provided major insights into how plants cope with water - limiting conditions, which can direct advanced breeding and genome engineering efforts to create high - performing, drought - tolerant crop plants.

The Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology works with agricultural breeding stations to develop improved crop varieties in Kazakhstan, a nation in Asia sandwiched between Russia and China.

Researchers looked for regions of each plant's genome that showed unusual patterns of variation consistent with past selective breeding acting on the VRN - D4 gene.

Mitch Tuinstra, a professor of plant breeding and genetics at Purdue, likened Schulz's work with corn to what Norman Borlaug did for the development of high - yield wheat crops in the 1960s and 1970s.

Higher frequency of extreme weather conditions makes it more difficult not only to predict harvests but also to breed crop plants that can better cope with future climate.

China's plant breeding research is mainly conducted in the public sector, and researchers are not always in close contact with the companies that sell and trade seeds.

Plant breeding research elsewhere in the world has benefited from advances in genomics and molecular markers, but plant breeding scientists in China do not work closely with researchers in those areas, says Carl Pray, an agriculture, food, and resource economics expert at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, who has worked in CPlant breeding research elsewhere in the world has benefited from advances in genomics and molecular markers, but plant breeding scientists in China do not work closely with researchers in those areas, says Carl Pray, an agriculture, food, and resource economics expert at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, who has worked in Cplant breeding scientists in China do not work closely with researchers in those areas, says Carl Pray, an agriculture, food, and resource economics expert at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, who has worked in China.

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.

«By understanding how plants have adapted to different climates, it will give us a head start in breeding crops able to cope with global warming.»

The gene copies also hide natural variation in the wheat genome that could create opportunities to selectively breed plants with useful traits.

So if everyone who planted it to help the butterflies can be convinced to replace it with a native milkweed species — or at least cut the plant back every few weeks during the winter — they could quickly put a stop to the destructive winter - breeding trend.

That knowledge unveils the path to breeding plants with enhanced activity of this particular transport system resulting in more zinc rich seeds.»

Even with selective breeding, 10 to 15 percent of plants are the low - yielding dura form due to uncontrollable wind and insect pollination, particularly in plantations without stringent quality control measures.

Armed with the new knowledge, the researchers were able to breed submergence - resistant plants that still produced decent rice yields, the team reports 10 August in Nature.

Veitenheimer earned a Ph.D. in plant breeding and genetics, with a minor in statistics, from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and, later, a law degree from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C..

Farmers have tried to fight back by selectively breeding the plants to better withstand submersion, but they've met with limited success.

Native Americans cultivated sunflowers to use for food, medicine, and dye, says Lentz, and their breeding efforts produced tall, single - headed plants with big seeds that are rich in nutrients and easy to harvest.

14 After he had pioneered the laws of genetics with pea plants, Austrian monk Gregor Mendel bred a strain of hybrid bees.

Hoping to find another way to protect plants, researchers with Verdia Inc. and Maxygen Inc., both in Redwood City, California, and Pioneer Hi - Bred International Inc. in Johnston, Iowa, took a cue from a different technology — one in which a microbial enzyme is used to modify a herbicide called glufosinate.

Increasingly affordable with improved technology, molecular breeding is becoming the mode of business in the crop world, said Bonnie McClafferty, development head at HarvestPlus, a nonprofit funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that supports molecular breeding research into improving plant nutrition in Africa and Asia.

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.

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.

The ultimate outcome of their work might be not only the breeding of quinoa varieties with an even higher salt tolerance but also the crossbreeding of salt tolerance genes into related crop plants such as sugar beets or spinach.

«There is no doubt that plant science and breeding improves crops,» says Mason, the problem is that «we are with CAM plants where we were with cereal crops 10,000 years ago.»

In a 1987 Nature paper, a team led by plant geneticist Peter Meyer, then with the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, Germany, showed that inserting a maize gene into a petunia enabled it to produce the pigment pelargonidin and take on a salmon cplant geneticist Peter Meyer, then with the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, Germany, showed that inserting a maize gene into a petunia enabled it to produce the pigment pelargonidin and take on a salmon cPlant Breeding Research in Cologne, Germany, showed that inserting a maize gene into a petunia enabled it to produce the pigment pelargonidin and take on a salmon color.

Plant breeding is the genetic improvement of the crop in order to develop new varieties with desirable characters (traits)-- higher yield, resistance to diseases, better nutrition (higher micronutrient content).

Documentation of unexpected genetic changes that occur with conventional plant breeding.