For Crosby, a plant geneticist at the Texas A & M Agricultural Experiment Station here near the Mexican border, the answer is simple : " I'm not going to take away the regular habanero.
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A leader of the team, Dr . Nasrat Wassimi, a plant geneticist who is a native of Jalalabad, left Afghanistan in 2000 after training local teams to collect samples of native nuts, grains, fruits and vegetables.
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Plant geneticists have discovered that the genomes of many major cereal crops are similar to that of rice and have their genes arranged in much the same order, although the rice genome is more compact and was easier to decode.
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In 1980 she joined the U . C . Davis department of viticulture and enology ( academese for grape growing and wine making ), succeeding Harold Olmo, a well known grape breeder, as the department's plant geneticist.
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"Eventually, we'll have the entire collection backed up " at the national seed storage lab at Fort Collins, Colo ., said plant geneticist Philip Forsline, one of the scientists involved in the work.
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Pugsley was born in Mildura, Victoria and educated at plant pathologist at the Victorian Department of Agriculture ( 1931 1939 ) and plant geneticist at the University of Adelaide's Waite Agricultural Institute, South Australia ( 1939 1953 ).
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American plant geneticist Wes Jackson, Ethiopia's chief environmental official Tewolde Gebre Egziabher, Indonesian human rights activist Munir and Turkish environmentalist Birsel Lemke recalled the help they got at home in remarks at the awards ceremony at the Swedish parliament.
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A New York Times News Service article sent on Tuesday, Feb . 1, about the increased popularity of the syrah grape in America, misstated the given name of the plant geneticist who some say was the first to import the vines.
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At about the same time, some plant geneticists were becoming interested in somoclonal variation, a technique that enables plant breeders to " trap " naturally occurring mutations that ordinarily would not survive from one generation of plants to the next.
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A wheat breeder could use the rice map to find a similar gene in wheat to make that crop resistant to fungus, a major pest to farmers, said Benjamin Burr, a plant geneticist at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York.