Sentence examples for screening and breeding from inspiring English sources

Early eugenic proposals were based on choosing superior parents by visual inspection or medical screening and breeding them in much the same way as for prize pigs and pedigreed dogs.

Screening and breeding for ink disease resistance.

During the past decades, much research has been conducted on screening and breeding BW-resistant cultivars [ 9, 10].

The genetic effect of this PCR marker on GS has been verified in the diversity panel and thus can be used in germplasm screening and breeding selection of low GS lines.

Given the immense screening and breeding efforts that have occurred, it appears that the genetic resources for true DED resistance may not be present in U. americana and will need to be generated through modern transgenics or hybridization with resistant species of elm.

By defining the specific genes and mechanisms involved in cacao disease resistance, and translating these discoveries into tools for germplasm screening and breeding, it will be possible to pyramid multiple genes for resistance into the elite cacao genotypes of the future.

Provision of a target stiffness breeding objective is useful for screening, selection, and breeding in tree improvement programmes.

Table 3 Previous reports of screening cultivars and breeding lines for resistance to bacterial seedling rot (BSR) Year Countrya Resistant cultivars and breeding lines Number of screened cultivars or lines Evaluation method Reference(s) 1983 Japan (Resistance levels differed among the materials, although no highly resistant cultivars/lines were found).

SNP marker 1_0640 could also be used for screening germplasm and breeding material against the minor heat-induced seed coat browning locus.

Our aim is to evaluate biomass samples from different plants to screen mutant and breeding populations and transgenic lines for variability in saccharification.

Recently, a small number of rice genotypes with greater tolerance of flooding during germination and early seedling growth were identified following large-scale screening of >8000 genebank accessions and breeding lines at IRRI (Ismail et al. 2009; Angaji et al. 2010).