Sentence examples for breed improved from inspiring English sources

Marker-assisted selection offers a simpler and more efficient and accurate way to breed improved cultivars.

Lowbush blueberry, on the other hand, is a managed wild crop, and little effort has been made to breed improved varieties.

In order to breed improved flax varieties we need to increase our fundamental knowledge of flax biology (fibre and seed formation, disease resistance, growth etc).

More importantly, there is a great temptation to breed improved varieties: salmon that will grow faster, taste better and keep fresher.These fish may present a danger to wild strains.

An overarching challenge in agricultural research and development is ensuring that programme outputs — whether they be new varieties and breeds, improved management practices, better market pathways, or new financial mechanisms — actually reach farmers and are adopted at scale.

Worldwide, poultry production has recently undergone rapid change, including the introduction of intensive production, new breeds, improved biosecurity, and preventive health measures.

In addition, when the correlation of LD phase was high between the two breeds, selection for CP improved the response in crossbred animals and the use of a combined reference population of the two breeds improved response even more.

Imputation was done using all sequenced animals from the reference population, which included the Angus and Simmental animals, since it has been shown that using animals from other breeds improves imputation accuracy [ 28, 29].

The breed was improved about 1715 by mating a Flemish stallion with local mares; Shire blood was later introduced.

Our most P. infestans resistant sub-NILs with the most acceptable horticultural phenotypes (e.g., 08GH5516 or 08GH6261) could be intercrossed with selected sub-NILs containing late blight disease resistance QTL from chromosome 11 (Johnson et al. 2012; J.E. Haggard, E.B. Johnson, and D.A. St. Clair, unpublished results) to breed for improved resistance.

The productivity of certain breeds has improved remarkably due to efficient breeding programs rooted in quantitative genetics.