Sentence examples for modern breeding practices from inspiring English sources
PAGE 8 Magazine THE SHORT, BRUTISH LIFE OF THE MODERN BULLDOG Modern breeding practices have exaggerated the bulldog's large head and narrow hips, often causing considerable suffering.
Modern breeding practices make lamb available year round, and it is now relatively mild-flavored, raised to a smaller size than mutton, which is a sheep 1 to 2 years old.
Broadcast on the BBC, "Exposed" spawned three independent reports into purebred breeding, each finding that some modern breeding practices -- including inbreeding and breeding for "extreme traits," like the massive and short-faced head of the bulldog -- are detrimental to the health and welfare of dogs.
Genetic diversity was further reduced following domestication by modern breeding practices [ 5].
Modern breeding practices have stressed the introgression of new genetic variation, especially for disease resistance, from underutilized germplasm accessions.
Furthermore within subpopulation estimates of genetic diversity provide evidence that modern breeding practices have broadened the genetic diversity of tomato relative to landrace and vintage varieties.
Only two regions located on Gm03 and Gm15 showed selection signatures for both domestication and subsequent modern breeding practice.
This approach had been shown to be effective in identifying recent artificial selection considering the very short time of modern breeding practice [ 18].
Taking wild soybeans as a control in the PBS approach, we found that 306 regions were associated with significant signs (P < 0.001) of artificial selection by the modern breeding practice.
Together, these observations indicated that the impact of intensive selection by modern soybean breeding on reduction of genetic diversity was less severe than that of selection by the domestication process, suggesting that the wild soybean gene pool was the major reservoir that retained genes/alleles lost during domestication and modern breeding practice.
Domestication and modern plant breeding practices have narrowed the genetic diversity in cultivated plants [ 15- 19].
