Breeding Programme Articles & Analysis
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This new investment in soft fruit research follows in the footsteps of major agricultural crops, including pulses, oilseed rape and wheat, with a co-ordinated research approach to pre-breeding genetics of key traits and new breeding tools. These GINs have provided a key link between industry and academia to ensure that genetic research addresses the needs of the ...
The following marker-supported cross-breeding programme produced an improved strain now available for control of the rootworm with the product dianem. ...
By protecting the habitat of the Titan Arum, recovery is possible. A public education programme to highlight the threats to this iconic species will also help engage and encourage local stakeholders to help protect it. ...
The group is also concentrating on breeding programmes based on varieties of wild bananas. ‘This is because ensuring genetic variation is the key to tackling most problems in bananas. ...
Using drone technology could cut labour and costs spent in collecting data for maize breeding by at least ten per cent, preliminary findings of a project shows. With increased demand for better seeds to adapt to changing climate, breeders have turned to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) also known as drones for precise gathering of data from the field to enable more efficient ...
Ozone impacts on pollen could also be used in crop breeding programmes to screen for ozone tolerant varieties of ...
Derogations may also be permitted for the purposes of research and teaching, repopulation, reintroduction and for the breeding necessary for these purposes. Malta was allowed a transitional arrangement in the Accession Treaty to phase out finch trapping, taking into account the time required to establish a captive breeding programme. ...
The parents were selected for a breeding programme and made it possible to produce a new generation of improved sole juveniles that grow much better. ...
In 'Understanding melons' you can read about smart new combinations of state-of-the-art molecular techniques mean that breeding programmes can be accelerated dramatically. DNA sequencing data can already be associated directly with important hereditary traits such as disease resistance, taste and shelf life. ...
Rony Swennen, a professor at KU Leuven (Belgium) and head of banana breeding at IITA, is leading the project. Bananas are both a food staple and an economic backbone in East and Central Africa, where over half of all cultivated land is planted with bananas. ...
Derogations may also be permitted for the purposes of research and teaching, re-population, re-introduction and for the breeding necessary for these purposes. Malta was allowed a transitional arrangement in the Accession Treaty to phase out finch trapping, taking into account the time required to establish a captive breeding programme. ...
Future research will help to determine whether or not this will lead to the breeding of healthier poultry.” Enhancing disease resistance, alongside balanced increase of production and efficiency are important goals in poultry breeding. ...
These individuals could therefore be selected for gene conservation and/or start a breeding programme to save the European ash. Ash trees (Fraxinus excelsior L.) across Europe are dying from a newly recognised fungal infection, Chalara fraxinea T. ...
The study’s lead researcher, Angelique D'Hont, from the French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD), told SciDev.Net that the knowledge of the genome sequence could greatly facilitate research and breeding programmes in Africa and elsewhere. According to D'Hont, the sequence, which was published in Nature on 11 July, will be ...
The researchers said they drew on the fact that while the humped cattle breeds characteristic of much of Africa are susceptible to disease-causing trypanosome parasites, a humpless West African breed called the N'Dama is not seriously affected. ...
Developing countries are stepping up their efforts in surveillance and research on breeding wheat for rust resistance. For example, networks of scientists and agriculture specialists are exchanging information for an early warning of rust incidence in their area; scientists are using 'slow-rusting' genes to extend the time that varieties can resist the disease in a bid to slow ...
The project will aim to conserve crops' genetic history in the hope of introducing beneficial wild traits into plant breeding programmes to help crops better withstand the impacts of climate change. ...
He said the institute would need to be rebuilt, obtain new seeds, and only then restart crop breeding research programmes. Other regional agriculture research centres have suffered extensive damage worth US$4.5 million in total: the Sugar Crops Research Institute, in Mardan; the Agriculture Research Institute (ARI) at Tarnab, near Peshawar; the ARI in D.I. ...
It also makes recommendations for further research, including: introducing suitable breeding programmes to develop livestock suited to grazing on marginal land and assessing diets that provide maximum nutrition with minimal ...
In light of their findings, the researchers suggest that some Douglas-fir trees hold the genetic potential to withstand the pressures exerted by climate change, although longer term studies are needed in order to fully understand their responses under changing environmental conditions. Selective breeding programmes could therefore be implemented to increase the ...