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Wild relative
Plant species that are taxonomically related to crop species and serve as potential sources for genes in breeding of new varieties of those crops. (source: WCMC) Beaver Dam Daily Citizen,It is home to a wide variety of far southern birds, including ostrich-like rheas, and a wild relative of the llama, the guanaco. Foiling fatal food fads - Apr 11, 2007 separationsNOW.com (subscription),But this is the case with the recent rise in popularity of ramsons (wild garlic), a wild relative of chives and onion. In Germany especially, people have Q10: Talking Heads - Apr 11, 2007 Business Weekly,The genetic stability of wheat is bad news if you want to introduce a gene for a key trait from a wild relative, such as for disease resistance or drought Bright Daylight Idea No. 7 - Mar 17, 2007 News & Observer,...the mountains for any number of wild ramp festivals, which celebrate the intense flavor and smell of the superpowered wild relative of onion and garlic. Lunar New Year in blossom at Conservatory - Feb 14, 2007 San Francisco Chronicle,The third New Year citrus, mandarin orange (C. reticulata), may have reached China from northeastern India, where a wild relative is still found. Birds and bees in winter denial - Dec 19, 2006 Telegraph.co.uk,...are still flowering and, at a farm in Monksilver, near Minehead, Somerset, a whole field of charlock, the wild relative of oil seed rape is in flower. What Does GM Potatoes Mean for Future Blight Control? - Dec 12, 2006 Truth about Trade & Technology,The first generation product uses two genes from the wild relative to confer resistance. "The genes operate in completely different ways. Wild, crop varieties of wheat crossed to increase nutrients - Nov 24, 2006 Hindu,Because the gene, called NAM-B1, comes from a wild relative of wheat, there is no need to use transgenic methods to transfer the gene into crop strains, SPRING GETS OUT OF SYNC - Dec 14, 2006 San Francisco Chronicle,Jumping over bushes and dodging wildflowers, Hellmann snapped her nylon net over a velvety swallowtail perched on a lomatium, a wild relative of parsley. GM food: Boon or bane? - Dec 4, 2006 Newindpress (subscription),Scientists insert specific genes, which are responsible for the specific genetic traits of a wild relative of an organism, or other distantly related Gene-Altered Profit-Killer - Sep 25, 2006 Truth about Trade & Technology,The petition argues that the herbicide resistance trait is sure to make its way into red rice, a weedy wild relative of white rice that is already rice growers ... News index | RSS | News Feed Advertisements: Organic Apparel from Patagonia | Insect-repelling clothing |
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