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breed
breed A domesticated
variety of an animal or, rarely, a cultivated variety of plant. Cultivated plants are more often simply called varieties or, more correctly,
cultivars. Examples of animal breeds are Friesian cattle and Shetland sheepdogs.
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Breeding for Quantitative Traits in Plants.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Crop Science; 7/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...and apply that understanding to plant breeding. True to its objective, the text was...the author's experience in private breeding companies, it may also serve as a contemporary...be used to teach the basics of plant breeding. Perhaps to reach a larger audience...
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Breeding performance and timing of breeding of inland and coastal breeding Cormorants Phalacrocorax carbo in England and Wales
Magazine article from: Bird Study; 3/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; Capsule Breeding performance was higher at inland colonies than on the...nestling survival during late development. Aims To compare breeding performance of inland and coastal breeding Cormorants in England and Wales and to provide breeding...
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Breeding Field Crops, 4th ed. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: Crop Science; 9/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; Breeding Field Crops. 4th Edition. JOHN M. POEHLMAN...the fourth edition of a popular plant breeding textbook originally published in 1959...student taking their first course in plant breeding. This new edition assures that students...
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Breeding Field Crops, Fifth Edition
Magazine article from: NACTA Journal; 12/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; Breeding Field Crops, Fifth Edition by David Allen...the fourth edition was published. Plant breeding has increased in complexity over the period...used to incorporate them to improve plant breeding efficiency. Breeders continue to find...
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BREEDING DISPERSAL IN FEMALE NORTH AMERICAN RED SQUIRRELS.
Magazine article from: Ecology; 5/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...ecologists, the causes and consequences of breeding dispersal have remained largely unexplored...term mark-recapture (9 yr) to study breeding dispersal in the North American red squirrel...third of that keeping or sharing it. Breeding dispersal was a recurrent phenomenon...
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Breeding and Recruitment Phenology of Amphibians in Missouri Oak-Hickory Forests
Magazine article from: The American Midland Naturalist; 7/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...management and conservation activities in breeding ponds and surrounding terrestrial habitats. We examined the phenology of pond-breeding amphibians in central Missouri oak...traps. We found 15 species of pond-breeding amphibians, nine of which we captured...
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BREEDING & BREEDING TO MERGE WITH CAMPBELL-KAUFFMAN
Newspaper article from: The Journal Record; 3/26/1991; ; 700+ words
; By Nancy Raiden Titus Breeding & Breeding Insurance, an Oklahoma City agency formed in the 1930s, will...Inc. on April 1. The new firm will be Campbell-Kauffman-Breeding Inc. and will maintain the Campbell-Kauffman office location...
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Breeding success and nest-site characteristics of Red-breasted Flycatchers Ficedula parva in a primeval forest
Magazine article from: Bird Study; 7/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Predation is a major factor influencing the breeding success of Red-breasted Flycatchers...natural conditions. Aims To examine the breeding success of Red-breasted Flycatchers...nest-site characteristics and time of breeding. Methods Data were collected during...
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FISH BREEDING PRODUCTION 2.34% OF POTENTIAL.(Statistical Data Included)
Magazine article from: Indonesian Commercial Newsletter; 7/24/2001; 700+ words
; ...utilize 621,629 hectares of fish breeding area or 2.34% of a potential of 26.6 million hectares. That means fish breeding could still be expanded especially in the sea and in lakes. The fish breeding potential includes breeding in fresh...
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OBIT - MARTIN, NAOMI BREEDING
Newspaper article from: Roanoke Times & World News; 7/10/2004; 514 words
; Mrs. Naomi Breeding Martin passed away Wednesday evening...daughter of Davis D. and Hattie Stinson Breeding of Russell County, Va. She was preceded...Martin; and by two brothers, Paul A. Breeding, Wytheville and Clarence Herbert Breeding...
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Selective Breeding
Book article from: Animal Sciences
Selective Breeding Selective breeding is evolution by human selection. As nineteenth-century British...Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, selective breeding may be methodical or unconscious. Methodical selection is oriented...
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Captive breeding and reintroduction
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
Captive breeding and reintroduction In 1973, the Endangered...declining due to human influences. Captive breeding and release is one of the tools available...implement a successful program of captive breeding and release. The primary goal of captive...
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breeding
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
breeding in agriculture and animal husbandry...produce improved progeny. In conventional breeding, progeny inherit genes for both desirable...hybrid of four inbred lines. Selective breeding developed with the domestication of useful...
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Breeding
Book article from: Plant Sciences
Breeding The vast majority of the human population...remains to be learned and understood. Plant breeding is the science ultimately concerned with...human societies. In many ways, plant breeding is analogous to a large river system such...
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Animal breeding
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
Animal breeding Animal breeding is the selective mating of animals to increase the possibility...engineering. These procedures are beginning to supplant traditional breeding methods, which focus on selectively combining and isolating livestock...
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