Sentence examples for crop breeding programs from inspiring English sources
These findings are relevant for enhancing salt-tolerance via genetic engineering in crop breeding programs.
Therefore, enhancing salt-tolerance is a serious concern for crop breeding programs.
Many hybrid plants have been generated from fusion combinations of different phylogenetic species, some of which have been utilized in crop breeding programs.
The results suggest that the genetic diversity within cluster I could be used for crop breeding programs and increasing the cultivation area in arid and semiarid regions of Iran.
Therefore, care must be taken when applying quantitative genetics models, including the animal and genomic selection models, to traditional self-pollinating crop breeding programs.
Self-pollinating crop breeding programs tend to have fewer parents in crossing, lower effective population size, and longer generation intervals than animal breeding programs (Cowling 2013).
Crop-breeding programs, on the other hand, have produced new varieties of A. annua, such as Artemis, with a consistently high yield of artemisinin (1 %); and on-going projects are aiming to push this yield even higher.
Undoubtedly, the disaggregation of crop yield into several essential components will provide achievable targets not only for basic research on yield formation mechanisms but also for use in crop yield breeding programs.
This information is critical to further understand cellular and molecular mechanisms of seed dormancy and is also useful to develop selection strategies to manipulate germinability (e.g., the resistance to preharvest sprouting in cereal crops) in breeding programs using the QTL alleles.
Moreover, it will offer an insight into crop improvement and breeding programs of this important underutilized medicinal plant for improved yield and quality of secondary metabolites.
The genomes of three legumes (Lotus japonicus, Medicago truncatula and Glycine max) have been sequenced, and it is envisioned that genomic discoveries in these species will be translated to crop improvement via breeding programs involving grain and forage legumes [12].
