Plant Breeding
Plant breeding: is the technique of altering the traits of plants in order to produce desired characteristics. New crop varieties or lines with interesting properties are then created. It has been used to improve the quality of nutrition in products for humans and animals.
JUN 25, 2020
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JUN 25, 2020
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DATE: June 25, 2020 TIME: 7:00am PT Genotyping assays are essential in a variety of plant and animal applications including Marker Assisted Selection (MAS) and Quantitative Trait Locus (QTL)...
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Structural variation within plant genomes has fueled domestication and selection of traits critical for modern breeding of crop plants. Nevertheless, dissecting the diversity of structural v...
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Household produce varieties such as ‘Red Delicious,’ ‘Campari,’ and ‘Earlidew’ have been selectively bred and have been enhanced for flavor since the 1990...
OCT 03, 2019
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OCT 03, 2019
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Banana (Musa spp.) is one of the major staple food crops grown in over 140 countries in the subtropics and tropics with annual global production of around 148 million metric, feeding about 50...
SEP 12, 2019
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SEP 12, 2019
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Plants recruit soil microbes that provide nutrients, promote growth and protect against pathogens. However, the full potential of microbial communities for supporting plant health and agricul...
SEP 13, 2018
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SEP 13, 2018
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The greatest need in agriculture this century is to mitigate impacts of abiotic (drought, temperature, salinity) and biotic (pathogens, pests) stresses on crop plants. Efforts over the...
MAR 28, 2018
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MAR 28, 2018
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In today’s modern laboratory, resources are often stretched as laboratories struggle to manage multiple priorities, meet regulatory requirements, and contain costs. This is especially t...
SEP 20, 2017
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SEP 20, 2017
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DATE: September 20, 2017TIME: 11:30AM PDTCoffea arabica accounts for 70% of world coffee production and is threatened by various biotic and abiotic factors. In this webinar, Dr. Susan S...
