Sentence examples for improving varieties from inspiring English sources

Efficient and robust molecular markers are increasingly needed for breeding and improving varieties in castor bean.

We will need improved varieties with improved traits targeting the consumer, while still satisfying the needs of the industry.

Figure 4 shows that traditional varieties, selected by ancient farmers, are not of significantly different GI than improved varieties, with the average GI of improved varieties being 64.9 and of traditional, 64.0.

included improved varieties from South-East Asia; J3 included a small set (5 acc). of improved varieties derived from Colombia 1; J4 (8 acc).

Improved varieties of seed are estimated to have boosted yields by 21-43%, independently of fertilisers and other inputs.

These collections preserve rare and endangered plants and their unique characteristics, so that scientists can study them and breeders can use them to develop improved varieties.

As companies and universities patent improved varieties, developing countries, which harbor many wild seeds useful in breeding, are growing reluctant to share these seeds without compensation.

The Green Revolution — a series of agricultural innovations producing improved varieties of wheat that could respond better to irrigation and benefit from fertilizer — provided that opportunity.

Such improved varieties will be required "if climate change is not to result in losses of yield and food shortages," the researchers write.

"The packets would contain a combination of land races"—traditional domesticated varieties—"and improved varieties, enough to plant a row or two, not a whole field, just for experimental purposes".

It is one of several new initiatives to develop improved varieties of crops that have been grown by small-scale farmers for generations but long-overlooked by international researchers and industry focused on globally traded staples like wheat and maize.