Sentence examples for crossing plants from inspiring English sources

From her experiments with crossing plants of different flower color, Wheldale demonstrated that traits are inherited by offspring in specific proportions, thereby affirming the theory of Mendelian inheritance.

Scientists have been trying for more than 50 years to create salt-tolerant crops by crossing plants that cannot survive in high-salt environments, called glycophytes, with those that can, called halophytes.

Her experiments with crossing plants of different flower colour affirmed the theory of Mendelian inheritance by demonstrating that inherited traits, rather than being a fusion of parental characters, are separate entities, transmitted to offspring in precise proportions.

For example, instead of or in addition to altering resistance, crossing plants between populations may increase the nutritive quality of the plants for herbivores.

However, crossing plants originating from populations each with adaptations to their local conditions may, in turn, result in reduced fitness and herbivore defence, if these local adaptations break due to outbreeding [2], [3], [5], [6].

Dual-labeled tobacco plants were generated by crossing plants expressing plastid-targeted cyan fluorescent protein (CFP) to plants expressing mitochondrial-targeted GFP.

This pattern of population structure has been previously reported in other out crossing plant species [ 27, 28].

Five interspecific hybrids were obtained by crossing plant 03 as female with one plant of accession ClAlo 943 of S. chacoense as male; the latter was provided by the Potato and Forages Germplasm Bank, EEA Balcarce, INTA, Argentina.

Linkage of HWA1 with RM5349 and RM224 was confirmed by adding the 82 three-way cross plants (Fig. 3).

The linkage analysis of HWA1 and eight DNA markers using 176 three-way cross plants showed that HWA1 was located between KGC11M1 and RM27122, and that it cosegregated with RM27051 and RM27068 (Fig. 3).

Linkage analysis of HWA2 and nine DNA markers using 175 three-way cross plants showed that HWA2 was also located between KGC11M1 and RM27122, and that it cosegregated with RM27051 and RM27068 (Fig. 3).