Sentence examples for breeding of fruit from inspiring English sources

Areas of interest are plant genetic resources, applied bioinformatics, quantitative genetics and the breeding of fruit tree crops.

While Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) markers have been widely used in plant germplasm management and breeding of fruit tree crops, this most powerful tool has not been available for longan.

To facilitate molecular breeding studies of fruit quality traits in apple, we aim to construct a high density map which was efficient for QTL mapping and possible to search for candidate genes directly in mapped QTLs regions.

Premise of the study: We developed the first microsatellites for Passiflora setacea and characterized new sets of markers for P. edulis and P. cincinnata, enabling further genetic diversity studies to support the conservation and breeding of passion fruit species.

The SSRs and SNPs identified here will constitute an important resource for mapping and marker-assisted breeding of ripe fruit quality traits in Rubus sp. and closely related crop species.

Thus, preserving continuous mature forests is of great importance for conserving breeding communities of fruit-eating birds, and maintaining fruit availability is an effective approach for supporting migrating birds during the non-breeding season.

The grape research team consists of a wide range of experts working on: breeding for fruit quality, disease resistance and cold tolerance; insect pest management; sustainable grape production; fungal and viral diseases; and vineyard management techniques, including digital technology-assisted precision viticulture.

Breeding for improvement of fruit flavor is a very challenging task when using classical breeding methods due to the difficulty of scoring and quantifying such a complex trait.

This makes fruit acidity an essential quality component not only for determining the fate of existing varieties, but also for prompting routine evaluations of acidity levels in apple breeding as genotypes of fruit acidity beyond the acceptable normal range can make up 25 50 % in breeding populations.

Rootstock breeding is an important aspect of fruit breeding, since many apple trees are propagated by grafting a scion on a rootstock, such as T337 and M26.

The loquat's trump card, that it was virtually the only soft fruit available in late April and early May, has become less valuable in recent decades with the influx of imported fruits, the breeding of earlier varieties of stone fruit and plantings of stone fruit in ultra-early areas such as northern Mexico and Arvin, Calif.