Plant breeders
Geneva rhetoric, national reality : the political economy of introducing plant breeders' rights in Kenya
... public plant breeders are keen on introducing PBRs and joining ...public plant breeders’ support for PBRs is a hope for revenue streams ...
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GENOME EDITING: AN EMERGING TOOL FOR PLANT BREEDERS Anand Kumar 1and Karansher Sandhu2
... that plant breeders are working hard to engineer disease resistance, high yielding, drought tolerance and nutritional varieties taking genes from other varieties or ...
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Evaluation of susceptibility level of pear cultivars to fire blight (Erwinia amylovora) in the Czech Republic
... Thirty-three pear cultivars and selections of potential interest to pear producers and plant breeders in the Czech Republic were tested for relative field susceptibility to the fire blight (Erwinia ...
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Transgenic Vegetable Breeding for Nutritional Quality and Health Benefits
... and plant breeders is necessary to involve nutritional and food scientists as well as others from biomedical fields to ascertain the true function of specific plant ...
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Molecular Characterization Of Sugarcane Genotypes For Their Salinity And Susceptibility Using Trap Markers
... provided plant breeders a new tool for tolerance and hence, molecular characterization of eighteen sugarcane genotypes of salinity tolerant and susceptible was carried out using thirty combinations of 5 ...
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Living with Materiality or Confronting Asian Diversity? : The Case of Iron-Biofortified Rice Research in the Philippines
... CGIAR plant breeders. At this time, the plant breeders in the various breeding centres were reluctant to add more breeding objectives to what was already a demanding workload 5 ...these ...
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Following the Open-Source Trail Outside the Digital World: The Case of Open-Source Seeds
... both plant varieties and the related information, knowledge and ...New plant varieties and related technology developed using a participatory process could be made available to farmers and plant ...
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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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Repairing incentives to invest in plant breeding
... Without stronger intellectual property protection, investments in technology and germplasm will not be sustained."IS Such hopes on the part of large-scale plant breeders that rescue migh[r] ...
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A REVIEW ON BIOTECHNOLOGY, GENETIC DIVERSITY IN CUMIN (CUMINUM CYMINUM)
... Evaluation and characterization of seed spices germplasm is required for their documentation and cataloguing crop wise for the further use by plant breeders and biotechnologists for improving in respect of ...
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... both plant varieties and the related information, knowledge and ...New plant varieties and related technology developed using a participatory process could be made available to farmers and plant ...
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End Point versus Point of Sale Levying of Plant Breeding Royalties: An Economic Analysis using Optimal Control Theory
... as plant breeders have sought to protect their investment through licensing and royalties, and farmers, in particular ecologically-oriented farmers, have promoted seed-saving as a conser- vation ...measure. ...
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Transgenic approaches to combating pests and diseases of plants
... distinct plant species are frequently created by classical breeders who deliberately force hybridization between distinct plant species when carrying out interspecific or intergeneric wide crosses ...
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Do warning calls boost survival of signal recipients? Evidence from a field experiment in a group-living bird species
... of breeders and non-breeders on feeders (n = 7 ...between breeders and unringed non-breeders on feeders following a standard protocol ...[26]. Breeders are rarely aggressive towards ...
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The nasty neighbour in the striped mouse (Rhabdomys pumilio) steals paternity and elicits aggression
... territorial breeders than the other two categories of neighbouring males ...territorial breeders, with philo- patrics having even a hundred fold less reproductive suc- cess (Schradin and Lindholm, ...
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Higher resting metabolic rate in long-lived breeding Ansell’s mole-rats (Fukomys anselli)
... of our knowledge, metabolic data of reproductive naked mole-rats is not available, but higher body temperature suggests a higher metabolic rate. This assumption is also in line with most mammals, where energy intake ...
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Research about the Influence of Environmental Factors on Breeders Quality
... the breeders, the monitoring of environmental parameters is a fundamental condition to ensure the quality of the breeders used for ...cyprinids breeders with a plankton nutritional spectrum. ...
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Alternative reproductive tactics in female striped mice: solitary breeders have lower corticosterone levels than communal breeders
... (2015) Alternative reproductive tactics in female striped mice: solitary breeders have lower corticosterone levels than communal breeders, Hormones & Behavior , 71 :1-9 do[r] ...
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Beyond access and benefit-sharing : lessons from the emergence and application of the principle of fair and equitable benefit-sharing in agrobiodiversity governance
... A series of historic events led to the transformation of agriculture and the global redistribution of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture (PGRFA). Colonization resulted in a vast flow of agricultural ...
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Breeders’ knowledge on cattle fodder species preference in rangelands of Benin
... Most of top fodders form a component of livelihood strategies in the country because they remain an important source of health care and constitute an essential basis in traditional medicine improvement. They are also ...
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