Sentence examples for grass breeding from inspiring English sources
The university is already world renowned for research in pasture-based agriculture, which encompasses many areas including grass breeding, nutritional characterization of different grass breeds, and the use of different plant species in applications ranging from flood control to altering the nutritional value of meat and milk via the grasses animals eat.
It may be concluded that the 8 cultivars used in our experiments do not provide grass breeders with encouraging evidence to include selection criteria for an increased DM intake, DM digestibility, and MY in their grass breeding schemes.
Infecting cultivars of pasture or forage grasses with Neotyphodium endophytes is one approach being used in grass breeding programs; the fungal strains are selected for producing only alkaloids that increase resistance to herbivores such as insects, while being non-toxic to livestock.
Therefore, it is important to explore growth-related genes to inform grass carp breeding programs aimed at improving growth traits.
The grasses are breeding grounds for fish, cover from predators, home to countless creatures at the bottom of the food chain and, not least of all, the favorite menu item of manatees.
Seeds used were selections of tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea Schreb ., perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L). and annual bluegrass (Poa annua L). obtained from the Rutgers University turf grass-breeding programme.
Perhaps the news of breeding grass carp will be the wake-up call needed to realize current measures are failing, and the time has come to enact a new strategy.
The results of this study suggest that the newly developed DArTFest array will find numerous applications in grass genetics and breeding.
For example, IBERS is breeding grasses with high sugar content, suitable for grassland ecosystems in the United Kingdom and the United States.
In October 2013 scientists announced that four grass carp had been breeding in the Sandusky River, a short stream that flows into Lake Erie.
