Sentence examples for by selective breeding of from inspiring English sources

A more sustainable method consists in taking advantage, by selective breeding, of the within-breed variation that exists in the mechanisms of defenses against infectious pathogens [ 1].

The vast diversity of phenotypes among breeds that has been created by selective breeding of domesticated animals can compare to those observed among wild species in nature.

The Munich Zoo produced a tarpan-like horse by selective breeding of domestic horses known to have tarpan ancestry.

The former, for example, had wide practical application in the development, by selective breeding, of strains and races of plants of economic importance, especially grains, that are resistant to a wide variety of plant diseases.

Limited control of damage by insect pests can be achieved by proper timing of planting and other cultural practices or by selective breeding of varieties having some resistance to insect damage.

Although most edible plants grow in the tropics, the main efforts to increase harvests have been based on a small selection of species from industrialised countries.At one time or another, indigenous people in tropical Africa and South America knew how to cultivate and prepare nutritious food by selective breeding of as many as 30,000 species of plants.

They suggest that the resistance of rice to UVB radiation can therefore be increased by selective breeding or bioengineering of the genes encoding CPD photolyase.

Presumably, most causes of absolute resistance are genetically determined; it is possible, for example, to produce by selective breeding two strains of rabbits, one highly susceptible to tuberculosis, the other highly resistant.

Once, different farm animals were produced by selective breeding in different parts of the country, because they made the most of different conditions - for example, Aberdeen Angus and Welsh Black cattle are small, slow-growing breeds that can survive on the marginal grazing.

Three different strains from two different genotypes were used: an obese genotype, homozygous (fa/fa) obese Zucker rats [ 25] (Obese rats; n = 5, 389.4 ± 21 g) and a hypertensive genotype, spontaneous hypertensive rats (Hypertensive rats; n = 5, 227.4 ± 29.3 g), a strain obtained by the selective breeding of Wistar-Kyoto rats with high blood pressure [ 26].

In artificial selection, humans have the capacity to influence certain characteristics of organisms by selective breeding.