Sentence examples for breeding programs has been from inspiring English sources
Crop yield, which generally is the main objective of breeding programs, has been improved essentially by phenotypic selection, owing to inability of marker development to ensure sufficient genome coverage for this complex trait.
A major focus in both public and private sunflower breeding programs has been to develop sunflower hybrid varieties with improved yield, oil content and resistance to a wide range of diseases.
Transferring FHB resistance from other alien species, such as Lophopyrum elongatum, were reported to have produced durum lines with FHB resistance (Jauhar and Peterson 2009), but successful use of these lines carrying alien chromosomes in breeding programs has been a challenge.
Root architecture has important functional implications for the timing and extent of soil water extraction, yet selection for root traits in wheat breeding programs has been largely limited due to the lack of suitable phenotyping methods.
However, the impact on practical breeding programs has been smaller than initially envisaged (Dekkers 2004; Bernardo 2008).
The use of resistance (R) genes in crop breeding programs has been, and will undoubtedly remain the major means for disease control.
Captive breeding programs have been working without a genetic cheat sheet to guide their decisions about which individual devils to breed to foster cancer resistance.
Its wood has various end uses (lumber, pulp and paper, particleboard, resin) and several breeding programs have been developed in France, Portugal and Spain, to improve wood productivity and quality, and resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses (reviewed by Mullin et al. [ 1]).
