Sentence examples for forest biotechnology from inspiring English sources
Elsewhere, researchers are using forest biotechnology to quicken the pace of traditional breeding experiments.
Forest biotechnology industry will significantly benefit from the advent of functional genomics of wood quality and properties.
However, additional obstacles exist in the form of opposition to plantations, some forest ecocertification schemes, and concerns about aspects of forest biotechnology, especially genetic engineering.
"The general public is not going to look at trees at this point as a row crop," said Susan McCord, executive director of the Institute of Forest Biotechnology in Raleigh, N.C.
Much of the research relies on basic tree genetics -- made easier by the sequencing of the poplar tree genome, a major effort in forest biotechnology whose results are to be made public this month.
Vincent L. Chiang, co-director of the forest biotechnology group at North Carolina State University, has developed transgenic trees with as little as half the lignin of their natural counterparts.
O.P. Rajora held the Stora Enso Senior Chair in Forest Genetics and Biotechnology at Dalhousie University, which was supported by Stora Enso Port Hawkesbury Ltd., and the Senior Canada Research Chair in Forest and Conservation Genomics and Biotechnology at UNB, which was supported by the Canada Research Chair Program (CRC950-201869).
Increased yields can offer major economic advantages to planted forests based on biotechnology (Sedjo, 2004).
Tree breeding and biotechnology can enhance forest productivity and help alleviate the rising pressure on forests from climate change and human exploitation.
In this conference the focus is on forest trees and currently available biotechnologies and their application in the forestry sector are discussed with reference to their potential use in developing countries today.
His father retired as the vice president of technology for forestry, environmental and biotechnology research at Weyerhaeuser, the forest products company.
