Plant breeding
Contribution of graduate programs in plant breeding to the education of plant breeders in Brazil
... that plant breeders must have in the ...the plant-breeding faculty and the closing of their research programs, there also begins to be a decrease in the faculty able to offer courses that are very ...
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Plant breeding with marker-assisted selection in Brazil
... in plant breeding programs is strategicaly impor- tant, especially for crops of great importance in the seed market, such as corn, soybean, sunflower, and cotton, which large companies compete ...in ...
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Spatial statistical analysis and selection of genotypes in plant breeding
... Due to the relatively limited use of these techniques among plant breeders, it is necessary to assess their effects on selection of genotypes to finally demonstrate their true potential. This study illustrates the ...
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New trends in plant breeding - example of soybean
... Soybean breeding and selection is a continual process designed to increase yield levels and improve resistance to biotic and abiotic ...conventional breeding methods, the Single Seed Descent method in ...
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Genome elimination: translating basic research into a future tool for plant breeding.
... An important contribution to this en- deavor was made by Simon Chan and colleagues in 2010 [11], 2011 [12], and 2012 [13,14]; notwithstanding the fact that his training in basic biology had little to do with plant ...
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Development and application of microsatellites in plant breeding
... segregation hypothesis of 3 R_ (resistant) to 1 rr (susceptible). Linkage analyses were performed using the computer software Mapmaker/exp 3.0 (Lincoln and Lander 1993). The results of molecular mapping revealed that the ...
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Contribution and perspectives of quantitative genetics to plant breeding in Brazil
... Plant breeding has been conceptualized in different manners throughout its ...“plant breeding is applied quantitative ...plant breeding. In contrast, for Allard (1999), an ...
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Plant breeding and in situ utilization of palm trees
... genetic breeding, especially for its introduction to the cooking market in temperate weather ...(oleic). Plant breeding seeks to reduce the saturated fatty acids and to increase the polyunsaturated ...
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Plant Breeding in the Turn of the Millennium
... A new Green Revolution may be needed to increase food production. But will biotechnology lead plant breeding to another revolution? Some evidence already exists which supports this possibility. Almost ...
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Genetic resources: the basis for sustainable and competitive plant breeding
... Plant genetic resources (PGR) are the basis of food secu- rity and global energy. It is essential that these resources are properly preserved and characterized for the current and future demand, since they serve ...
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Contributions of plant breeding in Brazil – progress and perspectives
... genetic plant breeding to the performance of these ...base plant selection in the field on new technologies so that it is possible to meet ...words: Plant breeding, genetic progress, ...
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Plant breeding in the semiarid region of Brazil: examples of success
... ion breeding program had to be developed to try to solve these ...and Plant Breeding of that department, the breeding program was established, with support from the researcher Jorge Luiz da ...
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Optimizing the number of progenies and replications in plant breeding experiments
... In plant breeding, due to limitations in the experimental area or available resources, it is impossible to evaluate experiments with the number of replications and number of progenies desirable for ...
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Plant Breeding and Environment Protection
... in plant breeding. Croatian plant breeders have developed over 800 cultivars, many of them are resistant or tolerant to the most important ...
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Efficiency of among and within family selection in plant breeding through simulation
... Sugarcane breeding programs aim to generate new cultivars that increase productivity and reduce economic cost (Oliveira, 2007). Sugarcane genotype selection is executed in all phases of a breeding program. ...
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Exploring drought tolerance in coffee: a physiological approach with some insights for plant breeding
... Stomatal control on transpiration may decrease substantially as the scale increases from leaf to canopy. As the leaf transpires, water vapour tends to humidify the air nearby the leaves, thus decreasing the boundary ...
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GENETICS AND PLANT BREEDING
... pod, plant height at maturity, number of branches and of pods per plant, 100-seed weight, and grain ...predicted breeding values were calculated using mixed models (REML and ...suitable plant ...
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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SEED TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH AND FEDERAL PLANT BREEDING PROGRAMS
... ABSTRACT: This paper deals with the contributions seed technology can provide for soybean breeding programs for seed quality. Efforts can be placed on seed quality assurance (DIACOM) to assist the production ...
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GENETICS AND PLANT BREEDING
... For genetic and population analysis, 54 accessions were studied covering most of the natural geographic range of this species in Chile: 51 accessions previously reported by Mora et al. (2016) plus 3 other recently ...
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BIOFUELS AND THE CONTRIBUTION OF PLANT BREEDING
... There are risks, opportunities and prospects for genetic improvement associated with the development of biofuels, which vary with the raw material and with the conversion process used in the agroindustry plant, ...
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