Sentence examples for select for disease from inspiring English sources

The use of these new markers to select for disease resistance is discussed.

Thus these genes can be useful targets in future efforts to select for disease-resistant pigs.

Heirlooms aren't as easy to raise as the modern hybrids selected for disease resistance and other good traits.

I enjoyed John Seabrook's piece about the origins of the SweeTango apple, but it is important to note that the efforts to build a "better" apple have not always selected for disease and pest resistance ("Crunch," November 21st).

Plant BC3F4 #30 was designated as TS4 and selected for disease evaluation for resistance to bacterial blight and field trials (Figure 1). Figure 1 Marker-assisted breeding of TS4.

A possible explanation is that landraces or traditional varieties were selected for disease resistance or other traits tightly linked to this region by farmers long ago before modern rice breeding; thus most landraces carry the R-haplotype.

According to the report, a possible explanation is that landraces or traditional varieties were selected for disease resistance (BS) or other traits tightly linked to this region by farmers long ago before modern rice breeding (Leung et al. 2015).

The researchers confirmed that modern apples were first domesticated from wild Asian apples, but they found that subsequent crosses with European crabapples possibly selected for disease resistance, hardiness, or other traits contributed the most DNA to modern domesticated apples.

One critical difference between the two genome-wide approaches is that Wray et al. [9] set a significance threshold for the loci selected for disease prediction, whereas Meuwissen et al. [10] use all loci regardless of whether they affect or not the trait considered.

We therefore sought clusters of coevolved transcripts that were unique to strains selected for disease phenotypes.

According to the criteria selected for disease severity, 89 (45%) patients had SS/SSh, 108 (55%) did not have SS/SSh and one could not be classified.