The phrase "a basis for breeding" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the foundational elements or criteria that support or justify breeding practices, whether in agriculture, animal husbandry, or genetics.
Example: "The research provided a basis for breeding more resilient crop varieties that can withstand climate change."
Alternatives: "a foundation for breeding" or "a framework for breeding".
"What we speculate is that this could produce a basis for breeding programmes to produce rice that was less sensitive to CO2.
These findings will help to provide a detailed understanding of NUE mechanisms, and also provide a basis for breeding soybean varieties that are tolerant to low-N conditions.
Therefore, understanding the mechanism of methionine accumulation in the seed could be a basis for breeding cultivars with superior nutritional quality.
However, the current characterization of allelic variation and association with yield may be a potential basis for breeding.
The system then spread into every state, becoming the basis for breeding, selection and significant gains in milk production.
The traits (phenotypes) calculated serve as the basis for the prediction of carcass and tissue weights or volumes and proportions of muscle, fat and bone in combination with additional linear measurements for 2D gigot muscularity, loin eye muscle area and 2D loin eye muscularity and finally as basis for breeding value estimation (Bünger et al., 2011).
Genetic analysis was also carried out to identify the chromosomal location responsible for the floury endosperm characteristics of Suweon 542 to establish a basis for molecular breeding to develop rice cultivars with high quality flour.
Compositional analysis is also needed to provide a basis for future breeding improvements not only for biofuel production, but also for other potentially renewable products that can be produced from straw components.
Therefore, a strategy to identify EST-SSRs is not only important for diversity studies as a basis for molecular breeding strategies with oil palm, but in addition, markers in conserved coding regions allow easy transferability to other species within the Arecaceae family and provide tools for evolutionary and functional diversity studies [ 3- 5].
For the understanding of complex mechanisms, such as the process of drought stress tolerance and drought stress induced leaf senescence as a basis for future breeding activities it is of prime importance to understand how and when regulatory genes are activated and where they are located in the barley genome.
The data presented here will act as a platform for genetic marker development, a basis for marker assisted breeding strategies, and a reference for future transcript expression studies.
