Breeding Programme Articles & Analysis
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“This means that we have an opportunity to select for breeding those individuals which will produce offspring that generate less methane,” says Dr Jan Lassen who led the research project on individual methane measurements from dairy cows at Aarhus University. ...
“This means that we have an opportunity to select for breeding those individuals which will produce offspring that generate less methane,” says Dr Jan Lassen who led the research project on individual methane measurements from dairy cows at Aarhus University. ...
This article investigates the contribution of action research to systemic institutional innovation, through a case study of access and benefit sharing (ABS) mechanisms developed in the context of a participatory plant breeding programme in Southwest China. The processes of purposeful change are examined as critical events, in eight episodes. ...
The Indian Department of Atomic Energy plans to expand nuclear power in the country by constructing a large fleet of plutonium fuelled breeder reactors, seen as necessary because of perceived shortage of uranium resources. We analyse the economics of generating electricity at the first such reactor in India, the prototype fast breeder reactor. We find that such electricity will be 80% more ...
Analysis of Istrian shellfish breeding areas for (Diarrhetic Shellfish Poisoning; DSP) shellfish toxicity were recorded in summer and autumn 2005 as part of Croatian shellfish breeding areas monitoring programme. ...
The relative merits of reprocessing and direct disposal of spent nuclear fuel have been widely debated in Europe and the USA. An important aspect of the debate has been the economics of reprocessing. So far there have been no studies of the subject in the Indian context. This study assesses the economics of reprocessing in India and the cost of producing plutonium for the fast breeder reactor ...
The R&D project studied here concerns the breeding of new fruit varieties in a programme jointly funded by a research provider and an international marketing company. The breeding programme is modelled on the premise that the R&D comprises a series of lotteries – in the sense that the outcome in each evaluation phase is ...
However, a new trend is opening the way towards the reduction of the reliance on chemicals: the use of biotechnology and the incorporation of crop protection strategies within plant breeding programmes. This trend is being propelled by new knowledge of molecular biology and the associated biotechnology techniques. ...