Israeli scientists have also bred an anthocyanin coloured tomato using conventional breeding techniques, called Black Galaxy.

By artificially manipulating the daylight hours in captivity, scientists have bred them more than once a year.

Maybe someday scientists will breed hybrid trees and shrubs that can be left on top of the soil and that will dig themselves in.

For example, scientists in New Zealand have bred cows that produce skimmed milk (less than 1% fat content).

In another experiment, the scientists bred C.A.'s to perform what is called the density classification problem.

German scientists have bred larvae in a space as small as 10 liters.

But until scientists at the Cincinnati Zoo bred Emi to Ipuh here, the future of this rare and ancient species seemed bleak.

Using genetic engineering, the scientists removed the gene from mice and bred a line of the animals, all missing the same gene.

Over the years, scientists from the Darwin center have bred 2,000 tortoises and set them free on the islands where their subspecies, decimated by humans, originated.

The clones in 1988 were made from embryos - scientists would breed a prize cow or bull, freeze some of the embryos and let a few go to term.