Sentence examples for source of breeding from inspiring English sources

Niyan Wee and other cultivars within the indica 2 subgroup should be a valuable source of breeding for drought resistance at least partly because of their superior root traits, not normally associated with the indica rice cultivars.

Female goats are the main source of breeding stock and rarely leave herds leading to a low demographic turn-over [ 30].

Furthermore, genotyping bull dams was the major source of breeding costs, leading to values higher than 90% of the maximum possible breeding costs in the majority of parameter combinations.

Because of the dry conditions in the area, the most important source of breeding sites remains rainfall water, and this explains the high abundance of mosquitoes during the rainy season.

A few F2 populations with potential for use as sources of breeding new varieties for maize weevil resistance were identified.

However, sourcing of breeding stock from pastoral herds is not a promising option for sustaining evolution of peri-urban camel herds for marketed milk production.

When the Sahara dried up and became a desert thousands of years ago, Aedes aegypti evolved to survive without a natural source of water, breeding using the water in pots outside people's homes, said Marten Edwards, a professor at Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania who studies the species.

For the category "other serotypes" the significant associations found were: control of rodents, region of the country, source of semen, breeding sector room and source of feed.

The assessment revealed that Pi2 and Pi9 have not been widely incorporated into diverse Chinese indica rice cultivars, supporting that the two blast-R genes can be novel gene sources for breeding of blast resistant indica rice in China.

While rats are known to prey heavily on FFSH congeners on other islands [47], W&D's primary source for reproductive data on FFSH on Lord Howe Island, Priddell et al. [14], dismisses rat impacts as unsubstantiated and insignificant, and instead focuses on loss of nesting habitat due to increased urbanization as a likely source of declining numbers of breeding pairs.

This finding may primarily be explained by control measures accompanied by large media coverage put in place during the epidemic, and public health education campaigns promoting physical elimination or alteration of breeding sources and peridomestic spraying of chemical insecticides.