Sentence examples for breeding programmes to define from inspiring English sources

The lack of a systematic approach to the selection of genes within QTLs coupled with extensive breeding programmes to define relatively small intervals without taking into account clusters of interacting genes has contributed to this disappointing return.

This case study demonstrates the feasibility of using microCT scans as a partially non-destructive method in Pinus tree breeding programmes to confirm fertilisation and determine seed viability.

"This will allow breeding programmes to be better managed".

Understanding this could enable breeding programmes to target this trait, leading to new varieties with even lower GI values than are currently known for rice.

However, progress with breeding programmes to develop salt-tolerant rice has been slow (Gregorio et al. [2002]; Flowers [2004]; Yamaguchi and Blumwald [2005]).

Tree breeding programmes, to ensure the best seed, are hampered by the trees' long life-cycles.

These limitations currently restrict the capacity of breeding programmes to routinely conduct genome-wide marker surveys.

This variability can be exploited in breeding programmes to increase the fruit composition of important phenolic compounds.

The Large Heath butterfly is making a comeback thanks to a captive breeding programme to reintroduce it.

Chloroplast DNA (cpDNA) sequences are also important for conventional plant breeding programmes to characterize and hence manipulate organelle genomes by breeding.

This discovery has allowed the possibility of genetic-based selective breeding programmes to control scrapie, and such programmes are now implemented across the European Union (EU).