wheat breeding
collocation in Englishmeaningsofwheatandbreeding
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wheat
noun[U]
uk/wiːt/us/wiːt/
a plant whose yellowish-brown grain is used for making flour, or the ...
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breeding
noun[U]
uk/ˈbriː.dɪŋ/us/ˈbriː.dɪŋ/
the keeping of animals or plants in order to breed ...
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We were given a presentation, delivered with military precision, onwheatbreedingby a tall, rather thin young man with a distinctly authoritative voice.
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Another factor that stimulated investments inwheatbreedingwas the 1950s stem rust epidemic.
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The origins and development of the modern internationalwheatbreedingsystem are briefly introduced in the next section.
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The development of diseaseresistant varieties is considered one of the major impacts accredited to improvedwheatbreeding.
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Impact of durumwheatbreedingin developing countries: a dilemma for the future.
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The simulation study was based on data models typical of flour yield data fromwheatbreedingtrials.
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Economic issues in assessing the role of physiology inwheatbreedingprograms.
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More than a century ofwheatbreedinghas made substantial contributions to the growth in productivity of wheat, albeit with a long lag time.
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Internationalwheatbreedinghas placed great emphasis on genetic control of disease since resource-poor farmers generally lack the means to control diseases chemically.
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It is generally accepted thatwheatbreedinginitially focused solely on increasing yield and has evolved throughout the last century to focus more on disease resistance.
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The factors involved in extrapolating relationships between these traits and higher yield potential levels and their potential usefulness as selection criteria inwheatbreedingprogrammes are now discussed.
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The grass has been studied for possible use in the science ofwheatbreeding.
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Development of varieties resistant to the disease is always an important objective inwheatbreedingprograms for crop improvement.
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His scientific research focused onwheatbreedingand adaptation to arid and semi-arid climates.
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He has published papers in national and international scientific journals on plant molecular genetics and currently runs awheatbreedingprogram for crop improvement.
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The origins of formalwheatbreedinglie in the nineteenth century, when single line varieties were created through selection of seed from a single plant noted to have desired properties.
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