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	Plant breeding - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Domestication, classical plant breeding and genetic engineering are all processes that alter the genome of a plant to enhance its qualities as a crop.
		Domestication of plants is a selection process conducted by humans to produce plants that meet the needs of the farmer and the consumer.
		Plants are cultured on media containing the herbicide, and eventually some natural genetic mutation will arise that enables the plant to survive in the presence of the herbicide.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Plant_improvement (1952 words)

	Plant breeding -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Plant breeding is practiced worldwide by (The organization that is the governing authority of a political unit) government institutions and commercial enterprises.
		The construct can be inserted in the plant genome by ((genetics) a combining of genes or characters different from what they were in the parents) recombination using the bacteria (Small motile bacterial rods that can reduce nitrates and cause galls on plant stems) Agrobacterium tumefaciens or A.
		Genetic engineering of plants that can produce (Drug or medicine that is prepared or dispensed in pharmacies and used in medical treatment) pharmaceuticals (and industrial chemicals), sometimes called pharmacrops, is a rather radical new area of plant breeding.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pl/plant_breeding.htm (2070 words)

	The Value of Planter Calibration Using the Metermax* System \| Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Yield improvement due to planter calibration ranged from none to 23.3 bu/acre and was related to increased plant spacing uniformity.
		Plant spacing measurements were used to estimate the standard deviation of plant stand, frequency of skips (missing plants) and doubles (2-plant hills) and average plant population.
		In a perfectly planted corn field where all the plants were 7.0 inches apart, the average spacing would be 7.0 inches and the standard deviation would be zero.
	www.pioneer.com /usa/agronomy/precision_farming/MeterMax.htm (1991 words)

	Plant Performance Improvement
		Many of the improvement scenarios that are evaluated and implemented are typically performed in concert to provide the overall impact of improved efficiency.
		Improvements to the boiler are most often related to improved heat transfer or energy capture within the boiler itself.
		These improvements can be associated with the turbine-generator itself, such as improvements in the first stage and nozzle block area, as well as conscientious maintenance of the components themselves.
	www.sargentlundy.net /fossil/plant.asp (654 words)

	ipedia.com: Plant improvement Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The most frequent reason why plants are not identical to their donor is mutation of their genetic material, from the nucleus or not.
		Once recognised and isolated the changed plant the diploid state can be reestablished with the [COLCHICINA], an alkaloid derived from the plant of the autumn crocus that ties it to the molecules of [tubulina] preventing the formation of the fused mitotic and therefore the [citodieresi].
		For which the plant [transgenica] is submitted to repeated intersections with a plant of a best variety with the purpose to recover the more possible of the [genoma] of this last with in anymore the [transgene].
	www.ipedia.com /plant_improvement.html (4157 words)

	About NCCPB (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Promote plant breeding, plant genetic research, and related improvement disciplines as challenging and interesting careers to help ensure a continuing supply of trained scientists.
		Plant Breeding is no longer only the application of classic genetic principles to the improvement of plants.
		If you are in the business of this broader definition of plant breeding, you are encouraged to contact Ann Jorss at the ASTA office in Virginia, at 703-837-8140, or ajorss@amseed.org, at any time for further information on membership of NCCPB.
	www.amseed.com /nccpb/abt_whoweare.html (358 words)

	Biotechnology: Genetic Engineering for Crop Plant Improvement
		The efficacy of exotoxin A on plant cells was demonstrated by transient expression of the modified exotoxin gene in tobacco protoplasts: the exotoxin gene inhibited the expression of a co-electroporated betaglucuronidase gene.
		Plants from all three treatments were grown in a field trial from previously field-grown tubers, and plant performance was measured in terms of plant height at flowering, weight of tubers, number of tubers, weight of large tubers and number of large tubers.
		Plant height, tuber weight and tuber number were, however, significantly lower in transgenic plants than in tuber-disc regenerants, suggesting an effect on plant performance either of the tissue culture process used for transformation or of the genes inserted.
	www.nalusda.gov /bic/Biblios/qb9324.html (16172 words)

	KWV Plant improvement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		KWV started its plant improvement activities in 1963 with the objective to provide a service to the South African wine industry by supplying the best available viticulturally and oenologically selected clone material, which tested free from known harmful virus and virus-like diseases.
		Today KWV Plant Improvement (PI) is a profitable commercial business which uses the most up-to-date internationally available technology to develop, multiply, maintain and market clone material.
		In terms of the Plant Improvement Law, the Vine Improvement Association (VIA) is the delegated authority which co-ordinates vine improvement in South Africa and administers the "SA Certification Scheme for Wine Grapes".
	www.kwv.co.za /plant_improvement_intro.htm (150 words)

	Plant Improvement, Breeding, and Research (from domestication of plants) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Scientific plant breeding did not begin until the discovery of the principles of heredity and genetics.
		This is accomplished by selecting plants found to be economically or aesthetically desirable, first by controlling the mating of selected individuals, and then by selecting certain individuals among the progeny.
		The pickaback is a popular houseplant, particularly notable for its curious reproductive abilities: the leaves of the parent plant arise from an underground stem and, when mature, they produce new plantlets from buds at the base of their leaf blades.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-206660 (892 words)

	Plant Encyclopedia, Home Improvement, Remodeling, and Repair Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Related Articles for Plant Encyclopedia section in the latest news and headlines in the home improvement industry.
		The additional resources for Plant Encyclopedia section is a comprehensive list of sites that provide great information for home improvement topics.
		Garden and house plant encyclopedia, with gardening advice, growing tips, and plant help, plant profiles, cultural requirements and free screen savers.
	www.online-indoor-plant-directory.com /directory/plant-encyclopedia.html (657 words)

	AGRONOMIC RESEARCH AND PLANT IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMMES IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: OVERVIEW OF ROLES, OBJECTIVES AND ...
		It is estimated that almost half of the productivity improvements in the major staple crops, rice and wheat, during the last twenty to thirty years was directly contributed with enhanced genetic potential for higher yield, pest resistance, and adaptation to intensive cropping.
		From the biophysical perspective alone, a shift in research approach may be necessary — from one with a focus on broad adaptation to one that capitalizes on and captures the favorable and predictable genotype by environment interactions.
		Though crop improvement programs have successfully fortified the newer varieties with multiple pest resistance, improved their quality, and adapted them to more intensive cropping systems, the biological limits of the current plant types have apparently reached a plateau.
	www.fao.org /AG/agp/AGPS/bangkok/Paper7.htm (3928 words)

	The Reporter - City’s wastewater plant improvement project clears DNR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A treatment plant protects the waterways surrounding the community by removing solids like sticks and sand from the wastewater, reducing organic matter and pollutants and restoring oxygen.
		Improvements are necessary for the facility to meet new DNR ammonia regulations and also to increase its capacity.
		Lentz said that, when completed, the plant will be better able to handle heavy rainfall situations like those that occurred in the spring 2004.
	www.wisinfo.com /thereporter/news/archive/local_22221568.shtml (437 words)

	Programmatic_goals.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A plant improvement course option should be introduced together with; a scholarship program to support it; a new recruiting brochure to attract undergraduate and graduate students; and a speakers program.
		Improvements are needed at the farms, which include repairs to buildings and improvements in security in the form of fences, gates and lighting.
		Hiring an ecological plant pathologist with skills in population biology, statistics and molecular biology would complement existing faculty.
	www.rci.rutgers.edu /~white/www.PlantBio.net/Programmatic_goals.html (448 words)

	Knowledge-Based Plant Improvement [Faculty]
		We are characterizing genes from fungi and bacteria that encode resistance to and degradation of a photoactivated toxin important in plant parasitism by Cercospora fungi, with the goal of engineering plants that can withstand the toxin and thus be resistant to these important pathogens.
		In addition, we are investigating the mechanisms used by fungal pathogens to counteract active-oxygen-mediated defense reactions in plants, as the ability to overcome these defenses is required for disease development.
		My lab is interested in devloping geminiviruses, which are plant DNA viruses that replicate in nuclei, as silencing vectors for understanding gene function.
	www.cals.ncsu.edu /ifafs/hfiles/facultyfulllist.html (982 words)

	Performance Of Generating Plant
		The first step in successful Performance Improvement Programs is to make company executives, managers, and generation staff aware of the potential for improvement that exists at each of the company's plants and the importance of achieving that potential.
		Performance goals for the plants where the projects are installed must be set giving proper consideration to the expected performance improvement stated in the prioritization analysis.
		Often times a coal-fired plant is designed with the expectation that it will burn coal of a certain quality but later is required to burn the "lowest-priced" coal available.
	www.worldenergy.org /wec-geis/wec_info/work_programme2007/tech/pgp/studies/2003-2.asp (2165 words)

	Plant Improvement Lab (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Plant Improvement Lab was created in 1998, with the fusion of Radiogenetic Lab and Plant Protein Biology Lab.
		The main research purpose in Radiogenetic is to generate and improve the genetic variability in vivo and in vitro in plant species that have agronomical importance and to select superior genotypes aiming for increasing the productivity in these species.
		Plant Improvement, Biotechnology, Protein Analysis, Protein Electrophoresis and Chromatography.
	www.cena.usp.br /labs/labmelhplingl.htm (627 words)

	ARS \| Publication request: Genomics-Assisted Plant Improvement to Benefit Human Nutrition and Health
		Technical Abstract: Plant foods contain a bountiful array of vitamins, minerals, and unique phytochemicals that are critical and/or beneficial for human health and well-being.
		Because almost all essential human nutrients can be obtained from a diverse, plant-based diet (the exceptions being vitamins B-12 and D), plant foods have the potential to significantly impact human nutrition and health.
		Therefore, efforts have been under way to improve the nutrient content and composition of plant foods as a means to increase the consumption of various essential and health-enhancing compounds.
	www.ars.usda.gov /research/publications/publications.htm?SEQ_NO_115=100254 (295 words)

	Knowledge-Based Plant Improvement [Faculty] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Our laboratory is concerned with issues of biology and technology related to the delivery and expression of transgenes in plants.
		We seek to understand the biological mechanisms leading to variation in transgene expression, as well as to enhance the effectiveness of transgenic approaches to plant breeding and crop improvement.
		Our interests include gene localization and sub-nuclear structure, "chromatin elements" such as matrix attachmentregions and insulators that affect the performance of transgenes, gene silencing and ways to control or exploit it, and gene targeting by homologous or site-specific recombination.
	www.cals.ncsu.edu:8050 /ifafs/hfiles/faculty/thompson.html (108 words)

	NETL - Power Plant Improvement Initiative (PPII) - Glossary "N"
		The energy required for pumping at a pumped storage plant is regarded as plant use and must be deducted from the gross generation.
		NUCLEAR POWER PLANT -- A facility in which heat produced in a reactor by the fissioning of nuclear fuel is used to drive a steam turbine.
		The NRC is the agency that is mandated with licensing and regulating nuclear power plants in the United States.
	www.netl.doe.gov /ppii/redesign/resources/glossary/glossaryn.html (1247 words)

	Specialized Consulting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the current economic climate of low growth, fierce competition, and eroding margins; plant improvement surveys provide plant managers with the unbiased information and professional advice necessary for maintaining and improving both the competitive position and the bottom line of their organizations.
		All the technical surveys provide plant management with a road-plan of short and long term operational improvements and high potential projects.
		Plant improvement surveys can be conducted under a revised ProReview® service agreement.
	www.processassociates.com /products/consulting/surveys.htm (288 words)

	Tall Fescue Information System, Oregon State University
		Bacon and Siegel (1988) first proposed that fungal endophytes might be modified to produce only beneficial properties to stresses and inserted into an endophyte-free plant to produce a superior forage grass without any toxicity problems.
		This remarkable development made possible commercial seed production of novel endophyte tall fescue which has the host plant benefits from the endophyte (Bouton et al., 2002) but has also furnished excellent performance of lambs (Parish et al., 2003), steers (Bondurant et al., 2001), and beef cows and calves (Watson et al., 2001) grazing this grass.
		Planting novel endophyte tall fescue is the most dependable method of eliminating animal losses from fescue toxicosis.
	forages.oregonstate.edu /is/tfis/enmain.cfm?PageID=337 (197 words)

	PLANT IMPROVEMENT ACT
		(d) plants that are kept for sale or, in the case where such plants are packed in bundles, each separate bundle, is provided with a label on which the information referred to in subregulations (1) and (2) of regulation 35 is indicated.
		(b) the quantity or mass of plants or propagating material, as the case may be, of specified kinds and varieties which he has in stock or which have been sold during a specific period.
		The mass of a lot of seed of a kind of plant indicated in column 1 of Table 4 may not exceed the mass specified in column 12 of the said Table opposite the name of the kind concerned.
	www.nda.agric.za /docs/plant_improvement/REGULATIONS.htm (11824 words)

	plant guides
		The plant guides that took me through this thirty-six or so hour trip continue to provide guidance for me today because I was taught in many ways how to tap into my own inner wisdom.
		Like other plant guides in the "Finders" series, "Fern Finder" is a dichotomous key, which leads the user step-by-step through a series of choices to the species being identified.
		Plant guides should be consulted before experimenting with plants that have unknown properties.
	www.plantsall.com /plantguides (1221 words)

	Sarasota County Water Improvement Plant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Nestled in the midst of the Carlton Reserve in Sarasota County Florida, is the $35-million Sarasota County Water Improvement Plant.
		The plant takes brackish ground water and demineralizes and purifies it, making it suitable for potable water.
		An important design consideration for the plant was the concrete protection systems.
	www.sherwin-williams.com /im/wastewater/SarasotaWaterImprovementPlant.asp?nav=CaseHistories (435 words)

	Genomic for plant improvement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		For every improved variety, there is a collection of thousands of genes, the combination of which explains the plant's traits.
		Today, genomics gives us the hope that we can catalogue all the genes in an organism, and then understand their functions, their rules, and how they interact.
		We invite you to discover how genomic studies of species which are important for our food are already contributing to plant improvement, and how they will contribute even more in the future.
	www.genoplante.com /page.php?nopic=0&js=1&rub=1&id=126&niveau=1&langue=us&sid= (279 words)

	HORT 101 Plant Improvement and Breeding
		b) Learn that in agricultural production, we often use plants representing a narrow genetic base, and may need to increase genetic diversity for subsequent crop improvement.
		Since the genetics of plants is complex, plant breeders strive to make
		: With self-pollinated plants, pedigree selection is effective, but this does not work with cross-pollinating species.
	www.hort.purdue.edu /hort/courses/hort101fall/PlantBreeding.html (303 words)

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