Examples of 'conventional breeding' in a sentence
Meaning of "conventional breeding"
This phrase refers to the traditional method of selectively breeding plants or animals through natural reproductive processes. It implies that no genetic engineering or modification techniques are used
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Research is carried out here in conventional breeding conditions.
Using conventional breeding to move traits can take many years.
Demand for immediate halt of patents on conventional breeding.
Conventional breeding methods exploit natural variations existing within the crops.
Is intended to particularly valuable breeding groups of conventional breeding.
These techniques do not replace conventional breeding but can improve its efficiency.
Genetic engineering is not just an extension of conventional breeding.
The product of conventional breeding emphasises certain characteristics which are not new to the plant.
He noted the increase in patents on seeds developed by conventional breeding methods.
Conventional breeding techniques are then used to get all three genes into the same plant.
Of the research and development for vegetable seed is in conventional breeding.
Biotechnology can speed up conventional breeding programmes and may offer solutions where conventional methods fail.
Now many believe it may be necessary to rethink conventional breeding strategies.
CIMMYT operates a conventional breeding program to provide optimized strains.
The mapped markers are used for speeding up selection in conventional breeding procedures.
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The non-patentability of conventional breeding processes could otherwise be easily circumvented.
Furthermore gene transfer is a much more rapid technique than conventional breeding.
Conventional breeding programs are improving yields by about half a percent per year, if that.
The biofortification of crops can be achieved through conventional breeding or genetic engineering.
Moreover, we use conventional breeding methods in the case of fruits and vegetables seeds.
Endogenous retrovirus is a potential source of infection not always susceptible to conventional breeding practices.
This can be done through conventional breeding but would take over 50 years to achieve.
In a crop improvement program somaclonal variation methodology has to interfaz with conventional breeding.
Researchers in Nigeria are combining genomics and conventional breeding to improve the starchy staple crop.
This shall also apply to situations where transformation events have been stacked by conventional breeding.
However, some patents are still being given to conventional breeding and cultivation practices.
Genetic modification is a technology used to improve plants in a more precise way than conventional breeding.
Conventional breeding can help make plants resistant to viruses, but sometimes it is not successful.
Hybrids are a result of crossing parental traits of two individual plants using conventional breeding methods.
Similarly, modern biotechnology tools complement conventional breeding approaches rather than substituting for them.
Biotechnology can overcome production constraints that are more difficult or intractable with conventional breeding.
It can speed up conventional breeding programmes and provide farmers with disease-free planting materials.
These decisions do not solve the legal questions or the underlying problems regarding conventional breeding.
Using conventional breeding techniques or self-pollination, seed may be produced from this transgenic plant.
A growing number of applications claim IP protection over conventional breeding methods.
WEMA uses conventional breeding techniques to develop drought-tolerant seed.
FDA scientists protested the attempt to equate bioengineering with conventional breeding.
Genetically modified animals The boundaries of conventional breeding lie in the impossibility of species cross-breeding.
Project partners in MASTITIS RESISTANCE aimed to address this omission in conventional breeding programmes.
Drought-tolerant ( DT ) corn produced using conventional breeding methods was commercially introduced in 2011.
In consequence, patents are granted on plant varieties produced by conventional breeding.
How do you breed for drought tolerance, whether through conventional breeding or through genetic modification?
Genetic engineering is far more precise, in this regard, than conventional breeding.
It provides key underpinning knowledge to inform and short-cut conventional breeding strategies.
In such cases, higher yields are not due to genetic engineering but to conventional breeding.
Genomics, although it can include transgenic technologies, involves many conventional breeding practices too.
This is the process of developing nutrient-rich varieties using molecular techniques or conventional breeding.
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