plant breeding

基本解釋

Biotechnology programmes have been effective where they complemented well-structured conventional plant breeding and agronomy R&D programmes.
生物技術(shù)項(xiàng)目已經(jīng)發(fā)揮有效作用，它們補(bǔ)充了結(jié)構(gòu)完善的傳統(tǒng)植物育種和農(nóng)藝研發(fā)計(jì)劃。
The guidelines are intended as best possible advice to institutions involved in germplasm exchange for research, conservation and plant breeding.
準(zhǔn)則旨在向進(jìn)行種質(zhì)研究、保存和作物育種交流的機(jī)構(gòu)提供最佳建議。

She says combining many different genes into one plant without genetic engineering requires a lot of plant breeding.
But plant breeding reduced the fibers, and now the beans are known as snap beans.
It calls for genetic improvement of crops through conventional plant breeding and through direct genetic modification of crops.

But, more significantly, the genetically modified varieties tended to do worse than those produced by traditional methods of plant breeding.
ECONOMIST: GM crop plants are less weed-like than weedy
In traditional plant breeding, some inbred maize plants destined to be crossed with others have their male, pollen-producing tassels cut off to prevent self-fertilisation (maize is a horticultural hermaphrodite, carrying both male and female sex organs).
ECONOMIST: Terminator genes