Sentence examples for breeding programmes to take from inspiring English sources

Mwachara et al.[ 49] identify the need to involve the livestock keepers in designing the breeding programmes to take into account the full array of contributions to livelihoods that these animals make and so identify genetic characteristics related to these functions.

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

"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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Nevertheless, the commercial farming of tigers and captive breeding programmes should be taken seriously, until the next Green Revolution in agriculture, when less land is needed for food, and indigenous people are truly living, and not just surviving on subsistence agriculture.

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