Sentence examples for breeding programs to improve from inspiring English sources
Our results provide reliable information for designing wheat breeding programs to improve biscuit quality.
These QTLs have been successfully used in marker-assisted backcross (MABC) breeding programs to improve the drought tolerance of widely adopted popular but drought-susceptible rice varieties such as IR64, Swarna, MR219 and MRQ74 (Swamy et al. 2013; Swamy et al. 2014; Noraziyah et al. 2016a; Noraziyah et al. 2016b).
SNP markers within regulatory elements can therefore affect traits by influencing the expression of genes, and could potentially be used in breeding programs to improve complex traits such as drought tolerance, growth and wood quality traits.
Considerable efforts are being made in breeding programs to improve resistance and tolerance to Pratylenchus neglectus in the major crops wheat and barley, which makes it vital to develop appropriate selection tools in medics.
This has facilitated the development of closely linked molecular markers that can be used in breeding programs to improve the tolerance of wheat and barley grown in areas where B toxicity is a problem.
Together, these data will not only contribute to a further understanding of the characteristics and functions of the GRF family in different species, but will also provide a promising strategy for Chinese cabbage breeding programs to improve yield/head size.
The contribution of breeding programs to improving genetic merit for animal health traits has been clearly documented in Scandinavian dairy cow populations [ 35, 36].
The fiber QTLs, especially QTL clusters reported herein can be readily implemented in a cotton breeding program to improve fiber quality via MAS strategy.
The aim of the present study was to estimate the heritability of these two traits, in order to complete the analysis of their pertinence as indirect criteria for use in a selective breeding program to improve RFI.
In the late 1970s, the Korean government initiated a Hanwoo genetic breeding program to improve meat quantity and quality.
The data obtained from this investigation will contribute to a better understanding of the characteristics of the GRF gene family in Chinese cabbage, and provide a basis for further studies to investigate GRF protein function during development as well as for Chinese cabbage-breeding programs to improve yield and/or head size.
