... , boosting our ability to produce disease- and pest-resistant crops in the future. The research is published this evening ... suggests that looking for single genes that confer resistance to pests and diseases is not going to be sufficient. Instead ...
... greater yields and to provide built-in safeguards for preventing inadvertent pollination by and in pest or insecticide resistant crops or those bred to produce drugs or industrial ...
... tolerance in order to engineer new drought-resistant crops of potato, as well as other Solanaceous vegetables ... diversity of potato as well as investigating traits such as resistance to various insects and diseases, as well as to cold ...
GM oilseed rape and maize that tolerate water shortages are in field tests - opponents remain sceptical
... that could help increase disease resistance, stress tolerance and plant yields ... MAGIC, to identify potentially useful gene combinations in crop species. "If we can understand these genes better, we ...
... study that could help increase disease resistance, stress tolerance and plant yields is ... gene identification and characterization," or MAGIC, to identify potentially useful gene combinations in crop ...
... in its antifreeze system can be useful information – similar genes found in other Antarctic organisms are currently being used to engineer frost-resistant crops. But BYU's Byron Adams, associate ...
... . Modern techniques have allowed great advances against weeds, including the development of herbicide-resistant crops and a better understanding of how weeds interact ...
... . So critical is this endogenous chemical to plant survival that researchers have engineered new drought-resistant crops by tinkering with the ABA pathway. For years ...
India researches parasite-resistant crops, South Asia seeks more efficient lighting, scientists develop corrosion-resistant rails, and more.
... such as medicine or agriculture, including help in growing plants used to fight disease or developing more drought-resistant crops. The flower is one of the key innovations of evolution ...
... . Excess usage of glyphosate-resistant crops has led to weeds, such as marestail, that also are resistant to glyphosate, the herbicide ... said farmers have come to rely on Roundup Ready crops that resist glyphosate as an easy way to control ...
A Taiwanese scientist has said her research team has found the gene that allows rice to grow under water and believes the breakthrough could help develop other flood-resistant crops.
... phase will also involve sharing collected seeds to restore plant populations and to research drought-resistant crops and other sustainable uses of plants. Some of these applications are already ...
... in cultivated squash. However, while disease-resistant crops have been a boon to commercial farmers, ecologists ... associated with the modified crops. "There is concern in the ecological community that, when the transgenes that confer resistance to these viral diseases ...
