Sentence examples for breeding program in the from inspiring English sources

The dogs Avon ("Buccleuch Avon") and Ned given by Malmesbury to assist the Duke of Buccleuch's breeding program in the 1880s are considered the ancestors of modern Labradors.

The MD-2 was initially developed through the Pineapple Research Institute PRII) breeding program in the 1960s.

The Meatlinc sheep meat breeding program in the UK achieved genetic progress of 16.5 index units per year (∼15% per year) during the first decade after the introduction of BLUP selection (Avendaño et al. 2003).

For example, one loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L). breeding program in the southern United States has completed its third cycle of breeding in 55 years (McKeand and Bridgwater 1998).

Favero, personal communication) and it is being used in the peanut breeding program in the Instituto Agronômico de Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil, in a collaborative effort with Embrapa Genetic Resources and Biotechnology, Brasília, Brazil (Leal-Bertioli et al. 2014a).

However, a strategy involving optimal mate selection that considers both genetic merits and coancestry of mates should be adopted to sustain the Menz sheep breeding program in the long run.

The objectives of this study were 2-fold: 1) to investigate the effects of heritability, selection intensity, number of progeny per bull, and size of breeding programs on possibilities for cooperation between dairy cattle breeding programs in the short and long term in the presence of G × E, and 2) to quantify the effect of such cooperation on genetic gain.

Next, we looked at a more recent domestication event, involving R. rugosa which was introduced in breeding programs in the nineteenth century.

Because of its economic importance, Douglas-fir has one of the largest tree breeding programs in the world.

Jagger is a hard winter wheat variety released from Kansas and has been widely used as a major parent in hard winter wheat breeding programs in the Great Plains.

The cluster on the left of Fig.  1 (hereafter referred to as Cluster 1) comprises lines from breeding programs in the Upper-Midwest of the United States: MSU, SDSU, and UMN; and in Canada.