Sentence examples for historical breeding from inspiring English sources

Historical breeding success with maize (Zea mays L). was found to provide a reasonable model for projected linear rates of yield improvement of switchgrass based on documented progress to date.

With an understanding of the birds' abiotic nesting requirements, we model optimal locations for potential breeding sites for the bird, using known historical breeding data to verify the selection process.

These elite varieties represent the breeding objectives at different historical breeding stages in China.

These results may highlight the influence of historical breeding practices, whereby Asian pigs were used to improve local English pigs during the late 18th and 19th century [ 14, 30].

Generation 20 was used as the base generation in order to observe the genetic improvement since the start of recent historical breeding, in which GS only was used, and to compare it to future breeding, in which GS only or GS + PAGE was used.

The historical component represented historical evolution and recent historical breeding efforts up to the present day under the assumption that livestock populations have been evolving for tens of thousands of years, followed by 21 recent generations of modern animal breeding with selection on breeding values for the simulated trait only.

In the first generation of the recent historical animal breeding population (denoted as generation 20), individuals had their chromosomes sampled from the 1000 simulated haplotypes.

Thus, many historical captive breeding programs probably did not adopt procedures to reduce domestication selection or the loss of genetic diversity in captivity (see Table 2).

Individual heterozygosity may be influenced by historical captive breeding as relatedness of individuals, particularly of the original founders, has not always been known and any breeding of related individuals would be expected to lead to a loss of heterozygosity.

If QTN that segregated in generation 20 had been considered, the favorable alleles that were lost during the historical animal breeding generations would be available for scenarios with PAGE but not for scenarios without PAGE, which would give PAGE scenarios an unfair advantage.

The GBC population consisted of historical varieties and breeding materials that were accompanied by resistance scores obtained in various environments.