News tagged with plant breeding
Research identifies wild ancestor genes for crop improvement
Using the genetic variation found in wild and exotic rice species, researchers are providing breeders with genomics tools and knowledge to develop higher yielding, stress-tolerant varieties, a Cornell researcher reported ...
Feb 22, 2011 |
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The production of plant pollen is regulated by several signalling pathways
(PhysOrg.com) -- Plants producing flower pollen must not leave anything to chance. The model plant thale cress (Arabidopsis), for instance, uses three signalling pathways in concert with partially overlapping ...
Jan 25, 2011 |
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New romaine lettuce lines launched
California and Arizona, the two largest lettuce-producing states, account for more than 95% of the lettuce grown in the United States. Since the early 1990s, the states' lettuce crops have been subject to ...
Jan 18, 2011 |
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Research makes plant breeding easier
University of Illinois research has resulted in the development of a novel and widely applicable molecular tool that can serve as a road map for making plant breeding easier to understand. Researchers developed ...
Jan 04, 2011 |
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Powdery mildew at an evolutionary dead end
The size of a genome tells us nothing about the comprehensiveness of the genetic information it contains. The genome of powdery mildew, which can destroy entire harvests with its fine fungal threads, is a ...
Dec 09, 2010 |
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Bioscience researchers defeating potato blight
Researchers funded by the BBSRC Crop Science Initiative have made a discovery that could instigate a paradigm shift in breeding resistance to late blight – a devastating disease of potatoes and tomatoes costing the industry ...
Nov 18, 2010 |
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Selected hens give new genetic insights
Studies of heavy, fast-growing hens and small, slow-growing hens provide important new knowledge on the origin of the genetic variation that has enabled them to adapt rapidly to new extreme environments. This is shown by ...
Nov 05, 2010 |
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Genetically altered salmon? It doesn't stop there
(AP) -- We've always played with our food - even before we knew about genes or how to change them.
Sep 22, 2010 |
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Discovery offers hope of saving sub-Saharan crops from devastating parasites
Each year, thousands of acres of crops are planted throughout Africa, Asia and Australia only to be laid to waste by a parasitic plant called Striga, also known as witchweed. It is one of the largest challenges ...
Sep 10, 2010 |
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Fungi's genetic sabotage in wheat discovered
Using molecular techniques, Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and collaborating scientists have shown how the subversion of a single gene in wheat by two fungal foes triggers a kind of cellular suicide in the grain crop's ...
Jul 13, 2010 |
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Success with 'cisgenics' in forestry offers new tools for biotechnology
Forestry scientists at Oregon State University have demonstrated for the first time that the growth rate and other characteristics of trees can be changed through "cisgenics" - a type of genetic engineering ...
Jun 08, 2010 |
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Feeling Stressed? So is the Poplar -- But Hormone Suppression Could Help the Tree
(PhysOrg.com) -- People aren't the only living things that suffer from stress. Trees must deal with stress too. It can come from a lack of water or too much water, from scarcity of a needed nutrient, from ...
May 06, 2010 |
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'Different forms of flowers' continues to fascinate
Although Charles Darwin is most well-known both for his book "On the Origin of Species" and his theories on natural selection, he once stated, "I do not think anything in my scientific life has given me so much satisfaction ...
Apr 29, 2010 |
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Cloning plants from seeds
(PhysOrg.com) -- Wageningen geneticists (The Netherlands) are developing a method to replicate the parents of a chosen plant. Known as 'reverse breeding', this will have a big impact for the breeding industry.
Dec 15, 2009 |
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Flemish researchers develop revolutionary technology for use in plant breeding
In collaboration with researchers at VIB-UGent and the University of Antwerp (Belgium), scientists at the BioScience business group of Bayer CropScience AG in Gent have developed a technology that can significantly increase ...
Nov 03, 2009 |
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