Sentence examples for genomic prospecting from inspiring English sources

But genomic prospecting has also triggered angry backlashes.

Because of its evolutionary position as a key node within legumes as well as its nutritional and medicinal significance to humans, chickpea is ideally suited for genomic prospecting.

Access to genomic information offers exciting prospects to answer this question and unravel the genetic bases of phenotypic differentiation.

The objectives of this study were (i) evaluate prospects for genomic selection using GBS in a typical soybean breeding program and (ii) evaluate the effect of GBS marker selection and imputation on genomic prediction accuracy.

In practice, our results indicate that future prospects for genomic selection in spruces should take place within populations of small effective size combining several breeding groups, and thus implicating individuals of high relatedness within breeding groups.

The objectives of our study were to assess the prospect of genomic prediction of NCLB resistance in maize and the benefit of a training set that combines two heterotic groups.

The prospects for genomic medicine in Africa have been given a major boost by the US National Institutes of Health and the Wellcome Trust, which are investing approximately US$37 million in the H3Africa program over 5 years.

The purpose of this study was to assess the prospects of genomic selection in current apple breeding populations for 10 culling traits that are related to productivity and fruit external appearance.

The prospects for genomic medicine in Africa have been enhanced by major initiatives that are led by international funding agencies and academics, such as the Malaria Genomic Epidemiology Network (MalariaGEN) (http://www.malariagen.net/) and the Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa) program (http://h3africa.org//h3africawhitepaper.pdf).

The objectives of this study were to (1) assess the prospects of genomic prediction of NCLB resistance in maize and (2) compare the prediction accuracy of separate training sets for each heterotic group vs. combining both heterotic groups in a single training set.

If the goal is to predict within a population that comprises groups of related genotypes with differences in mean performance, results of this study indicate that this can lead to false conclusions regarding the prospects of genomic prediction within groups, which is likely to be the most common application.