Sentence examples for breeding programmes to develop from inspiring English sources

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

Potentially, these could be exploited in future breeding programmes to develop tolerant crop varieties for waterlogged and flood-affected areas.

26 28 Thus there is increasing pressure to develop new and novel germplasm with enhanced nutritional quality and to enable breeding programmes to use molecular markers effectively, with a clear understanding of the chemistry underlying nutritional traits.

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

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.

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

Even in more developed tree breeding programmes, a push to develop advanced techniques such as markers for QTL selection could increase demands on tree breeding programmes (e.g. larger progeny tests required).

Tom Sharples says skins still need to be thicker for transportation to avoid bruising, and so major producers have breeding programmes under way to develop the perfect hybrid.

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).