Plant breeding

Selective breeding Selective breeding: the process by which humans use animal breeding and plant breeding to selectively develop particular traits by choosing which - typically animal or plant males and females - will reproduce and have offspring together. This is the easiest but least effective short term way to select a preferred genotype or phenotype. Humans do this by taking a male and female of a species, each with a desirable trait and breeding them together in the hopes that both desirable

My objective as a plant breeder is to improve the quality and sustainability (both environmental and economic) of life on Earth by developing plants that fit better into the natural world and produce more with less. This is not a task that any individual can undertake alone or that will ever be finished, as new challenges and opportunities constantly arise. Towards my objective I work with partners with diverse skill sets, interests, and backgrounds. Among my most important partners, leading to some

Transgenic or Genetically Modified (GM) crops are plants used in agriculture that have been genetically modified using recombinant DNA technology. The aim for GM plants/crops is to express a gene or a trait that is not found in the species of the plant. The scientist that modify the plants insert a foreign gene into the plant’s original DNA. As a result to the modification, the plant receives characteristics within the genetic code. Most, GM plants become resistant to pesticides, however there are

set of tools to modify products, improve plants and animals, and make microorganism for agricultural uses. It’s being used to produce products cheaper and easy to maintain. More and more farmers and producers used genetic engineered crops because of the price and resistances to insects and diseases. The main aim is to meet human and environmental needs. Biotechnology is a set of tools that uses living organisms to produce or modify a product, improve plants or animals, or develop microorganisms for

Genetically Modified Plants The term GMO Plants (genetically-modified organisms) is most commonly used to refer to crop plants created for human, or animal consumption using the latest molecular biology techniques. These plants have been modified in the laboratory to enhance desired traits such as increased resistance to herbicides and improved nutritional content. The enhancement of desired traits has traditionally been undertaken through breeding, but conventional plant breeding methods can be very

Foods harvested from these agricultural plants are called, genetically modified (GM). Presently, Canada has no consumer notification; GM foods are being slipped to Canada’s foods without any labels or adequate risk

modified (GM) foods refer to crop plants which have been created for human or animal consumption, these foods have had their genetic material modified in a way that would not occur naturally within the food. Desired traits such as increased resistance to herbicides or improved nutritional content are some ways food can and have been genetically modified. Traditionally, modifying plant to have a desired trait has been undertaken through breeding, conventional plant breeding methods

There are an abundant amount of deceased people all over the world who are still remembered today for their life-changing executions. Moreover, Gandhi (an Indian activist), a well-known person around the world is still honored today even after 70 years after his assassination. But Borlaug was just as significant as Gandhi was. Norman Borlaug an American biologist commonly referred to as “The Father Of Green Revolution”, was a man who saved millions of lives from starvation. Borlaug was a person

foods are and how they should be regulated. What are genetically modified foods? Although traditional plant breeding has been

However, it wasn’t until the early 1900s that scientists actually started using his theory to change plant characteristics. Fast forward to 1953, when two scientists, James Watson and Francis Crick, discovered DNA’s actual structure. Later this will be very important in helping scientists learn how to isolate and take specific genes from one plant in order to combine with others. 1982 was an important year because it was when the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved