Sentence examples for improve traits from inspiring English sources

To do this he melded traditional methods to improve traits and up-to-date biotechnology, producing hardier varieties, enhanced fiber quality and easier harvesting.

Gene pyramiding is also useful to improve traits controlled by multiple QTLs.

Various strategies of plant breeding have been employed to improve traits of many ornamental plants.

This is coupled with use of genomics-assisted breeding of rice to improve traits such as yield, abiotic stress tolerance and biotic stress resistance.

Cloning and expression analysis of these two genes will contribute to the understanding of molecular basis in stress-induced carotenoid accumulation, which is favorable for performing metabolic and genetic engineering to improve traits of D. parva.

This would clear the way for safe and effective genetic "vaccines" against predictable muscle damage (even if they provided better than normal damage resistance) but would screen out as "enhancements" efforts to improve traits that were at no diagnosable risk of deterioration (Juengst 1997).

During stage 2 (generations 9 to 12), the bulls were also used to improve trait B or to introduce genetic diversity in the breed.

Similarly, alleles associated with the improved traits related to yield from two other O. rufipogon accessions were introgressed into the Chinese cultivars TeQing (Tan et al. 2007) and Guichao 2 (Tian et al. 2006).

However, because there is a growing recognition that taste and flavor are key components of tomato marketability, greater emphasis is now being placed on improving traits like sugar content.

Thus, the improved traits by transgenic modifications, such as greater resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses and greater tolerance to herbicides, could potentially pass to the weedy rice and its sexually compatible Oryza species to make them super weeds.

An important problem encountered when breeding for improved traits is negative correlations between favorable traits.