Sentence examples for scientific plant from inspiring English sources

Scientific plant breeding dates back hardly more than 50 years.

In the mid-1800s Gregor Mendel outlined the principles of heredity using pea plants and thus provided the necessary framework for scientific plant breeding.

Given that scientists have often given preferential treatment to animals over plants, it should come as no surprise that there is no complete database for all scientific plant names.

The techniques of plant improvement have been evolving with the advancement of technology, progressing from crop domestication by Neolithic humans to scientific plant breeding, and now including DNA-based genotyping and genetic engineering.

But scientific plant modification is hardly a new phenomenon.

The 20th Century saw great improvements in many crops, with scientific plant breeding taking over from simple selection on the farm (reviewed by Halford, 2006).

When agronomists analyse or design multifunctional agro-ecosystems, they thus need to include knowledge of an increasing range of scientific disciplines (plant biology, soil science, ecology, etc).

František Baluška, a native of Slovakia, is founder and editor-in-chief of two scientific journals, Plant Signaling & Behavior and Communicative & Integrative Biology (Landes Bioscience, publisher) where more of his provocative thinking can be found.

On Sept. 29, a French scientific mission planted France's tricolore on the island, which they named Julia.

Every country has institutions responsible for scientific research into plant medicines and cites plant medicine as a primary asset for African countries to enter 'world first' innovative activity in health product development.

For each record in the database, the scientific name and plant family information of the source plant, origin of the plant material and identification method used in the analysis is provided along with complete literature citation.