Longer term, pending regulatory approvals, Monsanto believes the acquisition holds the opportunity to expand the potential adoption of biotechnology traits internationally," the company said.
HGT plays a pivotal role in bacterial evolution in the adoption of new traits and adaptation to new hosts.
The evolution of multicellularity requires the adoption of new traits in unicellular ancestors that allows the generation of form by, for example, increasing the size and developing new cell types.
While this goal first gained steam in non-model systems with the widespread adoption of quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping in the late 1990s, the recent explosion of sequencing technologies is likely to only heighten interest in this goal.
As with the adoption of 'Celtic' cultural traits in the Iron Age, and then Greco-Roman civilisation, so the development of Anglo-Saxon England marks the adoption of a new politically ascendant culture; that of the 'Germanic barbarians'.
Costumery in and of itself is the assuming of cherry-picked aspects from some mystique for the purpose of an event, not the adoption or assimilation of traits that comes with regional or cultural fusion.
However, for most complex traits the adoption of gene-based personalized approaches to medical care remains limited.
Given the high level of rural literacy and the high rate of adoption of improved maize, trait-based promotion and marketing of varieties constitutes the right strategy.
If the influence of individual's personality traits on the adoption of a technology is ignored, then there is a risk that adoption models may be mis-specified and, in turn, influence people's adoption of a technology negatively.
We use the term "religiosity" to designate a set of psychological and behavioral traits related to adoption of religious beliefs and engagement in religious behavior.
The results supported that consumers differ in levels of technology traits in mobile shopping adoption behavior.
