Sentence examples for breeding wheat from inspiring English sources

Yet there have been few assessments of recent progress in breeding wheat for hot environments.

When he tried breeding wheat with higher levels of nourishing minerals, like iron, zinc and magnesium, he was told those characteristics were unimportant.

The genetic advance raises the possibility of breeding wheat that is resistant to the fungus, researchers report in the journal Science.

Our research promotes the understanding of Pi signalling in wheat, and provides valuable gene resource for breeding wheat with improved P use efficiency and yield.

Our present study highlights the different ratios of leaf and stem within a wide range of wheat cultivars, thus indicating that there is significant potential for breeding wheat with varying tissue ratios.

Our attempt to silence it not only contributes to elucidating the mechanism of carotenoid accumulation in wheat but may also help in breeding wheat varieties with high provitamin A content through RNA interference (RNAi) to block specific carotenogenic genes in the wheat endosperm.

By 2007, Jones had spent more than a decade begrudgingly breeding wheats for the commodities market.

With current breeding techniques, wheat may finally have reached the upper limit of its potential yield, Graybosch says.

Such knowledge will help advance the pace of genomics-informed disease resistance breeding in wheat and other crops.

For example, by using the GBS approach, 41,371 SNP markers were identified in 254 advanced wheat breeding lines from the wheat breeding program of International Wheat and Maize Improvement Center (Poland et al. 2012b).

At least 16 of the named genes have been introduced into wheat varieties and breeding lines from wheat relatives and alien species (Chen et al. 2014).