► Today at ScienceInsider, Virginia Gewin reported on an effort by 69 organizations, including "the world's leading agricultural research centers" to "systematically characterize the genetic, physical, and biochemical makeup" of seeds in seed banks "in hopes of exploiting traits—such as drought tolerance and pest resistance that could help produce better crop varieties".
Our framework exploits traits of the different types of cores in heterogeneous multicore systems to service timing-centric workloads with a few big out-of-order cores, while servicing throughput-centric workloads with many smaller in-order cores clocked in the energy-efficient near-threshold computing (NTC) region.
Intense preclinical research and clinical trials are underway to exploit unique traits of lung cancer, such as oncogene dependency, DNA damage response, angiogenesis, and cellular plasticity arising from presence of cancer stem cell lineages.
To exploit such traits we need a better understanding of source: sink relationships and a more systems-based approach since it is unlikely that partitioning is under the control of a single gene, but rather an orchestrated response of multiple genes to environmental pressure and stimuli [24].
The technical difficulties involved in using bioengineering to exploit these traits [ 30], alongside some nations' reluctance to embrace such technologies, has contributed to the use of bacterial and fungal inoculants to improve crop Pi uptake ability and therefore increase yields [ 31].
Competitor species can have evolutionary effects on each other that result in ecological character displacement; that is, divergence in resource-exploiting traits such as jaws and beaks.
If you do risky things, you may not be blackmailable but you may still be a security risk because your risk-taking may bring you into contact with people who might try to exploit this trait to get secrets out of you".
Traits with strong phylogenetic conservatism likely will respond less rapidly to selection than less conservative traits, enhancing the feasibility of exploiting such traits for biocontrol.
Since genotypes vary for both phenotypic expression and for plasticity in response to environmental factors such as P availability, it is important to assess both genetic variation and plasticity of traits relevant to P acquisition efficiency before exploiting these traits in a breeding program.
