Sentence examples for targeted breeding from inspiring English sources

Cities across Brazil are working to educate residents about the dangers of pooled and stagnant water, where mosquitoes reproduce, and in some cases have targeted breeding areas with insecticides.

Such insight might allow targeted breeding to weaken or strengthen a phenotype.

A better understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying the water deficit response of crops will enable targeted breeding strategies to develop robust cultivars.

One will not have the opportunity to discover an assortment of experimental manipulations if availability and cost are prohibitive or infrastructure is limiting, such as insufficient capacity to house enough animals to do targeted breeding or invest in sequencing the genome.

Results stemming from this study could be used in future ash targeted breeding programs and increase fundamental understanding of interaction between ash trees and wood-borers such as A. planipennis.

However, for its judicious exploitation through targeted breeding program there is complete lack of genomic resources which is necessary for its desired utilization.

Existing approaches target breeding sites or attack adult mosquitoes by insecticide space-spraying, but these methods, at best, offer only immediate solutions and are rarely effective or sustainable for the long term (2 ).

Recent work evaluating genomic selection prediction accuracy has shown that using a training population from distinct but closely related breeding programs provides less accurate predictions than from a training population representing the target breeding population (Lorenz et al. 2012).

GNS4 can be targeted in breeding programs to increase yields.

This diversity is the major source of variation that has been targeted in breeding programs for rice improvement.

TILLING is a targeted mutation breeding technology that combines efficient mutagenesis with functional genomics to accelerate crop improvement [ 43].