Sentence examples for towards breeding from inspiring English sources

He moved the efforts of farmers towards breeding sport pony-style animals, and the breed, originally called the "Mérens horse", was renamed the "Mérens pony" for commercial and administrative reasons.

As Eddie Heggarty of Norfolk Geese told me, the flesh takes on a different texture as the birds move towards breeding after Christmas, and you can't eat them.

Considerable efforts have been mounted towards breeding for resistance against Xoo.

Additionally, females travel farther than males for reasons independent of body size, and the distribution of males during the breeding season is biased towards breeding ponds relative to the non-breeding season.

The large Poitevin mares became rarer, due to large amounts of crossbreeding and a lack of care shown towards breeding stock selection.

These analyses will aid in efforts towards breeding for broad and durable resistance in economically important tomato and pepper cultivars.

The common toad emerges from hibernation in spring and there is a mass migration towards the breeding sites.

Current understanding of complex genetic control of N and P utilisation is being converged towards precision breeding such as marker assisted breeding for nutrient efficient varieties.

However, there is a recent local and global trend towards diversifying breeding species to maintain the sustainability of the aquaculture industry [ 4, 5].

From this point, ZP-015 could be considered as a favourable variety for breeding towards an improved nutritive quality, having the lowest ratios for Phy/Mg, Phy/Fe and Phy/Mn in the control (Table 3).

As we assumed no change in the proportions of scrapie related genotypes over time, because no program for breeding towards scrapie resistance was in place in Switzerland, the flock level susceptibility s was determined once for each flock per iteration.