The tensions that have arisen "between first generation breeders who have secured legal protection for new varieties and second generation breeders who seek to utilise those new varieties to develop more varieties" need to be duly addressed so as to continue to permit second generation innovators to engage in the production of public goods (Helfer [2002]).
As these companies develop more varieties of patentable genetically engineered seeds and purchase more of the world's seed companies, they're creating a global seed monopoly that threatens the future of the planet's seed supply.
The lab's advisor, Dr. David Heber, director of UCLA's Center for Human Nutrition, said he and other scientists have begun studying most of the world's fruits and vegetables to pinpoint their health-benefiting compounds and to develop more potent varieties that Dole could bring to market.
Scientists have used conventional breeding methods to develop more than 20 varieties of cassava that are now being grown by farmers.
Program has $9 million to develop better grapes [Cornell Chronicle 10/24/2012] – VitisGen, a multidisciplinary research project co-led by Cornell grape breeder Bruce Reisch (right), will soon provide breeders tools they can use to develop more and better varieties.
VitisGen, a multidisciplinary research project co-led by Cornell grape breeder Bruce Reisch, will soon provide breeders tools they can use to develop more and better varieties in that time.
Pyramiding multiple BPH resistance genes is an efficient strategy to develop more durable resistant varieties against BPH.
It has been proposed that pyramiding multiple BPH resistance genes is an efficient strategy to develop more durable resistant varieties against BPH.
In this study, we analysed physiological and genetic parameters of 23 tomato accessions in order to identify possible traits to be used by plant breeders to develop more tolerant tomato varieties.
In this study, we analysed the physiological and genetic parameters of 23 tomato accessions in order to identify possible traits to be used by plant breeders to develop more tolerant tomato varieties.
Together with our analysis of cold tolerance-related traits within DPRK improved-temperate japonica varieties, we hope our efforts will help guide future plant breeding efforts in the DPRK to develop more cold-tolerant rice varieties with improved yields.
