Scientists are using biotechnology as well as traditional breeding methods to develop water-saving crops to feed a growing world.

VOA: special.2009.03.23

They have been using conventional breeding methods to develop and test soybeans that can grow well under dry conditions.

VOA: special.2009.03.23

And,it means that transgenic marmosets can be produced from breeding instead of by the lengthy process of injecting fertilized eggs.

VOA: special.2009.06.23

In a disputed decision, officials took the wild condors into captivity so that their breeding could be supervised and protected.

VOA: special.2009.11.18

She says combining many different genes into one plant without genetic engineering requires a lot of plant breeding.

VOA: special.2011.02.22

They have been using traditional breeding methods to develop soybeans that can grow well under dry conditions.

VOA: special.2009.01.20

But plant breeding reduced the fibers, and now the beans are known as snap beans.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

But some people are concerned that breeding has reduced genetic differences among cattle.

VOA: special.2009.05.05

Anna McClung heads a rice-breeding center for the United States Agriculture Department.

VOA: special.2011.02.22

"We have a breeding program that would result in oysters that have a higher meat yield in it during the summer time."

VOA: standard.2010.07.13

It calls for genetic improvement of crops through conventional plant breeding and through direct genetic modification of crops.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

Those facilities are so overcrowded that men are sleeping outside, exposed to malarial mosquitoes breeding in standing water.

VOA: standard.2009.09.08

(NO TRANSCRIPTS) "Through his contributions and his example and personal effort, this approach to crop breeding has scaled up to a global effort."

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

And so Tai will be sent to one of the large breeding programs in Sichuan province, where he'll be paired with a mate.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

But his big breakthrough came later, breeding high-yielding wheat varieties that more than tripled the harvest.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

The research was aimed at breeding oysters that would remain fat through the summer.

VOA: standard.2010.07.13

According to Ren Wang, Borlaug's legacy is his scientific approach to crop breeding.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

The discovery should dramatically speed up the process of breeding better strains.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

The pools become a breeding ground for mosquitos. ...

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

Clive Atyeo has been breeding orchids for 48 years.

VOA: standard.2010.02.21

It was a return to his roots. He began his work in the 1940s in Mexico, breeding wheat crops that were immune to another type of wheat rustthat had devastated crops there.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16