Sentences with phrase «yields high gene»

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

We develop higher - yielding varieties by focusing on key physiological plant traits and genes expected to increase yield potential.

«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.

At the time, however, the specific gene responsible for higher yield among these varieties had not been identified.

They developed experimental lines with and without the high protein gene by breeding the gene into two varieties of soybean and testing the lines for both protein concentration and yield.

Scientists at Sapphire Energy, a San Diego — based biofuel company, found a way around this problem when they discovered a gene that produced high oil yield even in the presence of nitrogen.

«High yield, protein with soybean gene: Genetic findings result in best of both qualities.»

The high overall activity of resistance genes did not cause any negative effects for the development of the wheat or its yield.

The next step will be getting those mighty Peruvian genes into high - yielding corn hybrids selected for production in the Midwest.

The discovery of the Shell gene and its two naturally occurring mutations highlight new molecular strategies to identify seeds or plantlets that will become high - yielding palms before they are introduced into plantations.

The project came out of a collaboration with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory to identify gene pathways that could be used to breed crops with higher yields.

The feat of introducing nitrogen fixation into corn and sorghum — or other genes that allow a crop to require less nitrogen — alone would cut costs and pollution markedly as well as drive higher yields.

It scans a very broad area of the genome (508 genes and more than two million base pairs or letters of the genome, i.e.. A, T, C, and G) with high accuracy (each region of the genome is sequenced or «read» 60,000 times), yielding about 100 times more data than other sequencing approaches.

The next decade may see several new gene - edited crops on the market, offering a range of traits that improve things like drought tolerance and offer higher yields.

Because disease organisms mutate quickly to overcome crop resistance controlled by single genes, researchers are rushing to identify new resistance genes and to incorporate multiple genes into high - yielding varieties, according to Ravi Singh, CIMMYT wheat scientist who participated in the reported study.

The most recent breakthrough was made by a team of British and American biologists who report they've successfully infused tobacco plants with bacterial genes — a first step towards engineering crops that grow faster, offer higher yields and use less fertilizers.

Our supermatrix expands upon these previous studies by bringing together sequences from a wide array of molecular studies, supplemented by new data for four genes, to yield a single primate phylogeny with strong support for the monophyly of most primate genera, families, and higher - level taxa (Primates, Strepsirrhini, Lemuriformes, Lorisiformes, Haplorhini, Tarsiiformes, Simiiformes, Catarrhini, Platyrrhini).

Release 1.0 contains 15,419 high confidence protein - coding genes; alternatively spliced transcripts derived from 992 genes add an additional 1,370 proteins yielding a total of 16,789 predicted proteins.

We have pioneered studies demonstrating that low - yielding wild and exotic Oryza species harbor genes and quantitative trait loci (QTL) that can be used to enhance the performance of modern, high - yielding rice cultivars.

Worse still is when agribusiness and geneticists change the seeds of grasses, with their genetic manipulations converting, for example, 4 - and - a-half-foot tall traditional wheat into 18 - inch tall high - yield semidwarf strains that now comprise 99 % of all wheat grown worldwide, or insert various genes for herbicide resistance, as in genetically modified corn.

The car chase in which Gene Hackman's Popeye Doyle follows the D train through Bensonhurst is one of the all - time best for a reason: William Friedkin brilliantly captures the clammy - palmed madness of a high - speed pursuit through bustling, crowded neighborhoods that yield for no one.

While some farmers (and governments) support the use of genetically modified crops for their higher yield quantities and pest and weed resistance, others point out that the long - term effects of these gene adjustments just still aren't clear.