Sentence examples for breeding programs have been from inspiring English sources

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.

At the same time, zoos' elephant breeding programs have been notoriously unsuccessful.

In most Western countries, breeding programs have been set up to provide the dolphinariums with new animals.

For many years, dairy cattle breeding programs have been very successful in identifying the best animals via progeny-testing schemes.

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]).

Breeding programs have been expanded, their design optimized and many new ones initiated since the late 1990s.

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.

Molecular marker integrated backcross breeding program has been employed to transfer three major BB resistance genes (Xa21, xa13 and xa5) into Jalmagna variety.

In France, a breeding program has been developed by the National Stud to cross Boulonnais and Arabian horses to create a fast, alert driving horse, called the Araboulonnais.