Sentence examples for conventional breeding methods from inspiring English sources

A typical Holstein herd using conventional breeding methods will produce 48percentt female offspring and 52percentt male.

The company, which employs about 35 people, half of them scientists, uses conventional breeding methods, and does't use genetic modification.

Marker-assisted breeding (usually called marker assisted selection) uses the genetic diversity found in crops or their wild relatives, combined with genomic data (genomic markers) to speed up what are otherwise essentially conventional breeding methods.

The present study is an attempt of raising HR rice lines through conventional breeding methods.

However, conventional breeding methods to improve rice cultivars for BB resistance have not found much success (Shin et al.2011).2011

Gene pyramiding is difficult using conventional breeding methods due to the dominance and epistasis effects of genes governing disease resistance.

There were larger DNA polymorphisms in Dongjin, which was bred by a conventional breeding method.

IR68144 rice derived from conventional breeding method was shown to have 2-fold higher Fe concentrations in its seeds (Gregorio et al. 2000).

Dongjin bred by a conventional breeding method had a lower number of SNPs (0.64 SNP/kb) than Hwayeong and its progenies obtained from an anther cultivar (average density of 0.45 SNP/kb).

We observed that in Hwayeong and its progenies, 0.64 SNP was found per one kb of Nipponbare genome, while Dongjin, bred by a conventional breeding method, had a lower number of SNPs (0.45 SNP/kb).

Also, Dongjin, which is an elite cultivar in Korea, was resequenced to estimate the difference in genomic sequences between a cultivar developed from anther culturing and a cultivar developed by a conventional breeding method.