Sentence examples for fruit breeding from inspiring English sources
But no large-scale university breeding program had ever released a managed variety of apple in the U.S. As Jim Luby, the head of the Fruit Breeding Program at the university and Bedford's boss, explained to me, "There was some discussion about how this would be perceived by the state's growers".
Because texture is a primary driver of watermelon acceptability, the development of methods to test for small differences in texture between new cultivars would be of great utility to fruit breeding efforts.
Current progress in genetic tools, genomic resources and functional genomics approaches for tomato is summarized, especially devoting particular attention to metabolomics approaches and possible future challenges of fruit breeding assisted by fruit modelling.
New understanding about where flavor comes from could have important implications for everything from fruit breeding to making more healthful processed foods.
In fruit tree breeding programs, progeny of tree fruit breeding crosses are used for genotype and phenotype evaluations.
Rootstock breeding is an important aspect of fruit breeding, since many apple trees are propagated by grafting a scion on a rootstock, such as T337 and M26.
In order to assess amplification and allele length polymorphisms, markers were evaluated using 20 diploid (AA) M. acuminata accessions belonging to the Embrapa Cassava and Fruits breeding programme collection, contrasting in resistance to Sigatoka diseases, and potential parentals for genetic map construction (Table 1).
In fruit tree breeding, a variety is usually propagated to produce multiple clones and the phenotype of each clone is evaluated multiple times.
This is the equivalent of providing a home for fruit fly breeding!
Dr. Rose has stretched the life of laboratory fruit flies by breeding them in appropriate conditions, proving that life span is under genetic control.
Andy Gracie is breeding fruit flies to survive on Saturn's moon Titan, and Edgar Lissel has taken a self-portrait in a dish of photoreceptive bacteria.
