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Segra International is excited to announce the imminent availability of an exclusive collection of proven, award-winning, and unreleased cultivars from Grounded Genetics. These premium genetics will be accessible to Canadian and international markets in the fall/winter of 2024/25, offered in the form of tissue culture mother plants and tissue culture ...
Her experience revolves around the use of genetics in aquaculture selective breeding programs to improve global food security and aquaculture production. In particular, she has experience in applied aquaculture genetics, quantitative genetics, population genetics, and the use of molecular data to correct paper pedigree records in selective ...
Vytelle and our network partners, are publishing this list of feed efficient bulls to assist cattle producers globally in driving a more accurate mating selection decision.” Bulls appearing within the pages of the Top 150 Proven Bulls list must meet the following criteria: A minimum of a three-generation pedigree Residual Feed Intake (RFI) EPD accuracy of 0.6 or higher ...
One way to solve the problem is to selectively breed fatter and faster-growing bugs—the same approach that the livestock industry has used for centuries to make farm animals more ...
Through our Novelty Protection Group, we advocate a strong and effective plant breeders’ rights (PBR) system, encouraging innovation through breeding and rewarding quality of the propagating material, so that new varieties will be produced and will be available for growers. ...
The company will also launch a new selective breeding program in order to provide the planet with continuously improving efficiency in transforming waste into insect-based products. ...
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At the same time, we start with excellent breed selection, scientific management, marketing and other links to provide farmers with whole process support, integrate poverty alleviation objects into the industrial chain, and thus drive them out of poverty to get rich, and out of an industrial transformation New ...
The Faculty of Agronomy at the University of Buenos Aires announces it has selected Phenom Networks’ plant breeding platform and will implement PhenomeOne, the premier plant breeding software created by Phenome Networks for all its breeding activities. The PhenomeOne software covers all research and development processes ...
Restoring resilience In recent decades, we have developed an agricultural system which focuses on the large-scale production of high-quality food. However, by breeding and selecting crops based on taste and productivity and by implementing large-scale monoculture systems, we inadvertently made our crops more attractive and susceptible to pests and diseases. ...
Trinh Quoc Trong, director of the National Breeding Centre for Southern Freshwater Aquaculture. This was followed by a series of field visits to murrel hatcheries and farms. ...
Potential Additional Action Areas: Profile and highlight BMPs for pesticide use in agriculture; Improve beekeeper education on the effectiveness of honey bee pest treatments; and Support research in selective breeding strategies for honey bees resistant to pests and diseases. ...
They hope it will give researchers, particularly those in developing countries, access to a wider range of information on which to base decisions about breeding better plant varieties. SciDev.Net spoke to Greg Austic, a games designer and cofounder of PhotosynQ, about the project’s growth and how it hopes to democratise science. ...
By selecting the right fish it is now possible to improve growth of farm sole. Early January 2015, IMARES Wageningen UR researchers produced the first juveniles (Solea solea) from farm raised parents outside the season. The parents were selected for a breeding programme and made it possible to produce a new generation of improved sole juveniles ...
Is it possible to improve the natural immunity of poultry through breeding? Selection of poultry with high levels of natural antibodies, will increase animal welfare , reduce antibiotic usage and increase profit. ...
Adapting microbes that dramatically increase crop yields while reducing demand for fertilisers and pesticides through selective breeding or genetic engineering could be cheaper and more flexible than genetically modifying plants themselves, says an author of a report. ...
At the moment, relatively little is known about cows' digestive systems but more investment in this area could help develop new feeds which could dramatically reduce the environmental impact. Better herd management and selective breeding may also have a role. Even basics like improving animal health can mean that fewer animals are required to achieve the same ...
Before the introduction of genetic engineering man had relied primarily on selective breeding of plants and animals to obtain a desired final product. ...
The scientists used a crop improvement technique called ‘marker assisted selection’ in which a marker — usually a physical or chemical trait in a plant — is used to help locate and isolate a gene of interest, such as a gene for higher yield, stress tolerance or pest resistance. ‘’Swarna was the first rice variety where IRRI transferred the sub ...
The scientists from CSIRO"s Food Futures Flagship have used DNA technology to ensure the breeding program captures the very best Black Tiger prawn stocks that nature can provide and boost the performance of stocks each breeding season. ...
Farmers are already growing crops in these areas and it would be relatively cheap and easy to switch to suitable crop varieties with greater albedo properties. In the medium term, selective breeding and/or genetic modifications offer the potential to develop crops with more reflective properties. ...