Genetics and Plant Breeding
Using plant breeding and genetics to overcome the incidence of grass tetany
... evaluated to date. The largest portion of this genetic variation is additive, and plant breeders should be able to increase the Mg and Ca concentrations by using either mass selection or[r] ...
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Quantitative genetics of prostrateness and other related attributes in red clover (Trifolium pratense L ) : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Plant Breeding and Genetics, Department of Plant Genetics, Massey University, New Zealand
... when selection indices are useful. In contrast, high positive values for correlations between prostrate - and other traits such as nodal rooting, number of internodes and number of branches indicated that these ...
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Molecular Markers and a New Vista in Plant Breeding: A Review
... This Start codon targeted or SCoT is a novel system of the marker. Based on the short conserved regions that flank the start codon ATG in the genome of a plant, this system was developed. SCoT engages 18-mer ...
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DNA analyses and their applications in plant breeding
... in plant molecular ...the plant is extremely suitable for ge- netic and mutation ...the plant is ideally suited for molecular studies because with its content approximately 130 Mbp it is one of the ...
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Plant Breeding Giants: Burbank, the Artist; Vavilov, the Scientist
... The obituary is highly laudatory, a testimony of praise for a creative artist. But at the same time Vavilov, with his deep scientific insights, clearly perceived Burbank’s weaknesses in his study of genetics. It ...
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Organic Plant Breeding: Achievements, Opportunities, and Challenges
... Organic breeders should make use of all genotypes available, as long as their use is in accordance with the regulations for organic agriculture. The breeders of Sativa / Switzerland had to rely on recent hybrid varieties ...
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An Approach to Organic Plant Breeding of Cabbage and Cauliflower
... organic breeding – that at each stage of the process, the plants (or animals) involved should maintain their integrity and be capable of reproducing ...of genetics, to upset such views, however commonly or ...
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Organic plant breeding and propagation: concepts and strategies
... whole plant performances (in German: ‘Schöpfungsadäquates Erkenntnisweise’) next to the increasing emphasis of the mathematical nature of ...a plant ideotype as reference or ‘Leitmotiv’ for the further ...
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Organic plant breeding and propagation: concepts and strategies
... new breeding techniques, such as genetic engineering, it became clear that the principles of the organic sector ...organic plant breeding and propagation first the concept of naturalness behind the ...
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Application of Next-Generation Sequencing in Plant Breeding
... studying plant development, Illumina technology was used in a whole-genome study explor- ing the function of plant-specific NAC transcription factor family during development and dehydration stress in ...
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Organic plant breeding and propagation: concepts and strategies
... a plant architecture that will more readily let the ear dry after rain or dew by having a longer stem, an ear higher above the flag leaf and a less compact ...
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Evolutionary plant breeding for low input systems
... line breeding, limiting the exploitation of genetic ...population breeding through its potential to provide a comprehensive exploitation of the genetic resources ...
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Plant breeding for organic agriculture: something new?
... host plant resistance to pathogens and pests are not exclusive for OF, but they are highly dependent of the geographi- cal area where the breeding is ...in breeding for durable and broad resistance ...
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A Bull Breeding Soundness Evaluation System with Greater Emphasis on Molecular Genetics
... Breeding soundness refers to bull’s ability to conceive a cow successfully. Genetic progress in a farm can be accelerated if female animals are bred with high value bulls. As bull contribute large number of ...
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Periclinal chimera technique: new plant breeding approach
... was different in each chimera due to specific epigenetic interaction. Of 48 grafts, it was obtained one chimera giving a percentage of 2.1% that is little lower than using hormones but much efficient to use. Chimera ...
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Bread wheat: a role model for plant domestication and breeding
... Crop breeding relies largely on meiotic recombination, which allows for recombination of genes/alleles in different new genetic compositions, thus allowing selecting new im- proved cultivars ...
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Mixed modelling for phenotypic data. from plant breeding
... different base population or genotypes with different degrees of inbreeding. For the special case of a diallel analysis, Griffing (1956b), Wricke and Weber (1986) and Zhang and Kang (1997) stated that estimating variance ...
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Admixture Models and the Breeding Systems of H. S. Jennings: A GENETICS Connection
... In a perspective on H. S. Jennings, Crow (1987) com- mented that the computational methods of Jennings (1916) in systems of breeding were soon superseded by Sewall Wright’s general approach to the inbreeding ...
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Recent progress on the genetics and molecular breeding of brown planthopper resistance in rice
... It takes a minimum of 6–8 backcrosses to fully recover a recurrent parent genome using conventional breeding methods, but MABC enables the procedure to be short- ened to 3 or 4 backcrosses (Tanksley et al. 1989). ...
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First EUCARPIA Workshop on Implementing Plant Microbe Interaction in Plant Breeding
... reflect plant responses to environmental ...the plant are further expanded by the interactions between the fungus and bacteria present in both the rhizosphere and ...of plant growth promoting ...
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