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Mutation Breeding of Philippine Avocado; Although engaged in genetic engineering, the institute also uses mutation breeding, which is an alternative method of improving crop varieties. Small portions of avocado plant tissue (embryos) were allowed to grow (embryogenic cultures) and to differentiate into somatic embryos and shoots. Some of the ...
At the very least, one-third of the more than 9,250 vascular plant species native to the country are endemic. [3] There are, however, no plant families endemic to the country. [4] The families of gingers, begonias, gesneriads, orchids, pandans, palms, and dipterocarps are particularly high in endemic species. For example, two-thirds of the 150 ...
The list includes individual plant species identified by their common names as well as larger formal and informal botanical categories which include at least some domesticated individuals. Plants in this list are grouped by the original or primary purpose for which they were domesticated, and subsequently by botanical or culinary categories.
Plant breeders use different methods depending on the mode of reproduction of crops, which include: Self-fertilization, where pollen from a plant will fertilise reproductive cells or ovules of the same plant; Cross-pollination, where pollen from one plant can only fertilize a different plant
Emil Q. Javier (born September 11, 1940) is a Filipino plant geneticist and agronomist best known for having served as the 17th President of the University of the Philippines between 1993 and 1999. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He was conferred the rank of National Scientist of the Philippines for contributions in Agriculture in August 2019.
A cultigen (from Latin cultus 'cultivated' and gens 'kind'), or cultivated plant, [note 1] is a plant that has been deliberately altered or selected by humans, [2] by means of genetic modification, graft-chimaeras, plant breeding, or wild or cultivated plant selection.
For example, whilst ex situ conservation protects CWR (or more correctly, their genes) from threats in the wild, it can limit evolution and adaptation to new environmental challenges. In 2016, 29% of wild relative plant species were completely missing from the world’s genebanks, with a further 24% represented by fewer than 10 samples.
Balete tree from a Philippine forest, photographed in 1911 A balete tree near Tagkawayan in southern Luzon, Philippines. The balete tree (also known as balite or baliti) are several species of trees in the Philippines from the genus Ficus, which are generally referred to as balete in Filipino.