Sentence examples for vast gene pool from inspiring English sources
Hybridizers look to this vast gene pool in their efforts to breed better plants — varieties able to ward off pests and diseases, with more cold hardiness or heat tolerance or the ability to cope with drought or flood.
Mycobacteriophages or other bacteriophages with a wide host spectrum may play a key role in such transfers, as they display extensive mosaicism, combining viral and bacterial genes in a vast gene pool [32].
"They have a huge gene pool.
Rare microbes sustain a vast functional gene pool and can indirectly enhance functionality of abundant microbes (reviewed in Jousset et al., 2017).
Modern breeding and genomics promise progress in characterizing the resistance to the pests responsible for these losses that is present in the vast and diverse gene pool of cereals, as well as advances in incorporating this resistance into productive and acceptable crop varieties.
My gene pool was an unknown quantity.
A different gene pool, so to speak.
Then there is the wonky gene pool.
"It waters down the gene pool.
