Sentence examples for improved trait from inspiring English sources

Overall, these results demonstrate that the increased furfural tolerance observed with disruption of SIZ1 function was accompanied by faster furfural reduction and this improved trait has clear utility in improving the efficiency of lignocellulose fermentation containing furfural.

In fact, MAS has proven to be a useful tool for the development of agricultural animal and plant strains with dramatically improved trait characteristics (i.e., Han et al. 1997; Serraj et al. 2005; Singh et al. 2001).

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).

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.

Mutation scanning technology has been used to develop crop species with improved traits.

These breeding programmes have improved traits of commercial interest, such as faster growth and improved disease resistance (Gjoen and Bentsen 1997; Gjedrem 2000).

In addition, diverse improved phenotypes in mutants evolved by GREACE could be efficiently integrated in a single strain with multiple improved traits by methods like genome shuffling [ 1, 57].

It was shown that the precursor of hPGAEc was processed aberrantly and the enzyme exhibited improved traits for the synthesis of cephalexin, a β-lactam antibiotic containing 7-ADCA moiety.

Development of cultivars with genetically improved traits, such as better postharvest storage and seedlessness, as well as other quality and yield attributes, is needed to expand the V. rotundifolia fruit industry in the southeastern United States.

In recent years, cloning of animals by SCNT has opened up new avenues to produce genetically modified species with higher nutritional value or improved traits that are useful in agriculture.