Sentence examples for breeding trends from inspiring English sources

The popularity of Koshihikari influenced subsequent rice breeding trends at regional agricultural experimental stations, and the characteristics of newly developed rice cultivars in Japan are usually rated relative to Koshihikari, which is used as the benchmark.

Monitoring colonies over many years is therefore vital, he adds, to understand their population size, general breeding trends and the direct impact a changing climate will have.

A few days after Eight Belles's death, Squires wrote an article in which he contended that breeders needed to try to reverse the breeding trend.

The censuses provide a quasi-experimental approach, allowing a comparison to be made of breeding population trends of three species, Lapwing, Redshank and Snipe, on scheme and non-scheme land.

So if everyone who planted it to help the butterflies can be convinced to replace it with a native milkweed species or at least cut the plant back every few weeks during the winter they could quickly put a stop to the destructive winter-breeding trend.

Here, programs to monitor population trends, breeding parameters, and survival rates (including a specific capture-mark-resighting sub-programme) have been performed.

The European pied flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca also follows this migratory trend, breeding in Asia and Europe and wintering in Africa.

Trends in breeding values were significantly higher than expected from genetic drift alone, so that we can conclude that they do result from unintentional selection.

With the increase in popularity came pressure for the breed standard to change to meet modern show and market trends, by breeding for taller horses with more refinement.

Trends in breeding values were always larger than what could be expected based on drift alone (Table 2, Fig. 3).

Renault describes it as "a printed circuit linking some of the world's great metropolises, the breeding ground of new trends".