Sentences with phrase «with plant traits»

Peter Bradbury, a USDA computational biologist who works on TASSEL, a software program that analyzes sequence data to find markers associated with plant traits, also attended the workshop.

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That means the company's up for creating anything, including «plants with enhanced traits,» according to Caribou's website, as well as animal and human editing.

By adding these new genes, genetic engineers hope the plant will express the traits associated with the genes, such as resistance to certain diseases or herbicides.

They are planting several varieties of rice with different traits and characteristics as insurance on whatever impacts the climate may bring them.

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.

Using genetic engineering or transgenic technology, the DNA of plants and animals is combined with the DNA of other species and artificially modified to exhibit traits such as resistance to cold or herbicides.

Co-authored and illustrated with Elaheh Bos of Plant Love Grow, this book is designed to give children a visual example of what it means to develop positive character traits.

Demeter farms work according to biodynamic principles, in harmony with nature, and they respect the species - specific traits of animals and plants.

A new study indicates that pea plants with some specific traits — such as longer flowering time and higher pod numbers — may be more resistant to heat stress.

The results help researchers understand how plants and fungi developed symbiotic relationships, and how the mutualistic association provides host plants with beneficial traits for environmental adaptation.

Further crosses have introduced the tomentella genes into those of the soybean plants, creating soybean plants with 40 chromosomes and some of the most desirable tomentella traits.

As a result, soybean breeders now have access to dozens of new soybean lineages, each with some of the traits of the wild Australian plants.

Liverworts share some traits with green algae, the single - celled marine plants from which land plants most likely arose.

These findings taken together could provide plant breeders with new tools to create novel traits and crops.

A new research study from University of Florida Institute for Plant Innovation scientists Jessica Gilbert, Michael Schwieterman, Thomas Colquhoun, David Clark, and James W. Olmstead (HortScience, July 2013) sought to measure the characteristics associated with the «blueberry eating experience» by prioritizing the traits that could help improve flavor.

That inspiration drove Bouis's work IFPRI, where he began exploring the idea of taking native plants and mating them with similar varieties that have a desired trait.

In addition to selecting for tenera seeds with Good Karma, there are other traits in the plant that could be mined for optimization.

The snapshot reveals exactly how the genetics changed over time as generations of people selected plants with their preferred traits.

Molecular markers — pieces of DNA that «mark» a specific gene — allow researchers to comb the genetic blueprint of a plant, match the sequence with a certain trait using computer programs, and develop seeds.

David Lee, a tropical botanist at Florida International University in Miami, says that although the evidence is speculative, the study suggests that «to understand the evolution of plant traits, you also need to look at extinct herbivores and their interactions with the plants.»

The mid-elevation forbs that were coxed into flowering early took on the appearance of the low elevation plants, although some ended up with unexpected and unique combinations of traits.

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

The resource, a collection of wheat seeds with more than 10 million sequenced and carefully catalogued genetic mutations, is freely available to wheat breeders and researchers, and is already aiding in the development of wheat plants with improved traits.

«New tools will drive greater understanding of wheat genes: Vast genetic resource will aid development of wheat plants with improved traits.»

Using the largest dated evolutionary tree of flowering plants ever assembled, a new study suggests how plants developed traits to withstand low temperatures, with implications that human - induced climate change may pose a bigger threat than initially thought to plants and global agriculture.

Within the next couple of years our plants will have several traits with direct consumer benefits.

The problem is that plants with good possibilities often have the same traits that make then potentially invasive species, said Lauren Quinn, an invasive plant ecologist at the University of Illinois» Energy Biosciences Institute.

Scientists have in the past focused on above - ground characteristics, primarily leaf traits and the efficiency with which plants absorb sunlight for photosynthesis, he said.

Richard Jorgensen, a plant biologist who was the first to observe RNA interference, thinks modifying traits with a spray «might be really patchy» compared with a true GMO.

Before they could turn to existing databases, however, they had to deal with an additional problem: Even the largest plant trait database to date — a global woodiness database containing nearly 50,000 species — contains less than 20 % of the more than 300,000 plant species known to science.

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).

Such plants can be isolated using genome - wide association mapping of diverse populations or can be isolated from forward genetic screens, where a subset sample population with the desired traits is selected from a large pool of mutagenized individuals.

CERA's database of safety information includes not only plants produced using recombinant DNA technologies (e.g., genetically engineered or transgenic plants), but also plants with novel traits that may have been produced using more traditional methods, such as accelerated mutagenesis or plant breeding.

A plant defense is a trait that increases plant fitness when faced with herbivory.

With multiyear field studies, Xue identified plant traits related to drought tolerance, which can be used by breeders to develop drought - tolerant wheat cultivars and geneticists to screen molecular markers and speed the breeding process.

In addition to planting more biotech hectares, farmers are quickly adopting varieties with more than one biotech trait.

The databases will link the plant's phenotype — physical characteristics such as appearance and productivity — with their genotype — the gene variants that create these traits.

The nucleases were capable of pushing out an undesirable trait in a plant — such as a gene for a chemical that acted as an environmental pollutant when consumed by livestock — and replacing it with a desirable trait, such as herbicide resistance, in a single shot.

variety (in agriculture) The term that plant scientists give to a distinct breed (subspecies) of plant with desirable traits.

In comparing different lines, we want to find genes associated with what we call quantitative traits — genes that affect traits of importance to agriculture, everything from the size of the seeds to when the plant flowers to whether it can tolerate drought or dampness.

In an interview with Seeker, lead author Michael Palmgren explained that mapping plant genomes has led to exciting new knowledge about how domestication works on the genetic level, including which specific genes were mutated to create the traits we most desire in our agricultural crops.

We are a plant - trait company with field - tested proven technologies to help farmers, industry and biofuel users meet the challenges of feeding and fueling the world of tomorrow... today.

Two traits account for nearly all GM crops planted: herbicide - tolerance (almost all glyphosate - tolerant or Roundup Ready) accounting for more than 80 percent of GM crops, and insect - resistance (Bt - crops engineered with toxins from the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis to kill insect pests), accounting for 30 percent.19 (Eleven percent of GM crops have both traits.)

Humans have clearly adapted complex systems to deal with extended famine and different environments, but the body of evidence demonstrates that our digestive systems, physiology and physical traits are best designed to eat plants over the long - term, not animals.

With a reconfigured all - wheel drive setup, available torque - vectoring and a sport rear differential, the S5 does its best to minimize this trait and the overall impressions are of a very well planted car that offers an astounding level of control even at very high cornering speeds.

Blemishes in the road surface are handled with the comfort and ease of a crossover SUV, yet body roll is more akin to that of a compact hatchback than crossover SUV; and around highway flyovers and even tighter turns, the Soul remains planted and well supported — a confidence inspiring trait in such a lofty vehicle.

There are forty different species of this plant with varying traits in each; all are toxic to pets when ingested.