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Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 2016 Organic farmers require improved varieties that have been adapted to their unique soils, nutrient inputs, management practices, and pest pressures. One way to develop adapted varieties is to situate breeding programs in the environment of intended use ...
Adrienne C. Shelton, William F. Tracy
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Gender mainstreaming in sweetpotato breeding in Uganda: a case study
Frontiers in Sociology, 2023 PurposeIn Uganda, sweetpotato [Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam] is typically a “woman’s crop,” grown, processed, stored and also mainly consumed by smallholder farmers for food and income. Farmers value sweetpotato for its early maturity, resilience to stresses,
Reuben T. Ssali +11 more
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Evolution, plant breeding and biodiversity
Journal of Agriculture and Environment for International Development, 2011 This paper deals with changes in biodiversity during the course of evolution, plant domestication and plant breeding. It shows than man has had a strong influence on the progressive decrease of biodiversity, unconscious at first and deliberate in modern ...
Salvatore Ceccarelli
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Frontiers in Sociology, 2023 IntroductionThis case study reports on how a gender responsive breeding program contributes to meeting the trait preference of men and women for improved cowpea varieties in northern Ghana.MethodsFifty-eight early-maturing, medium-maturing and dual ...
Alhassan Nuhu Jinbaani +6 more
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A Plant Pathologist on Wheat Breeding with Special Reference to Septoria Diseases
Czech Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding, 2004 This review has a personal, plant pathologist's outlook on plant breeding. It touches upon some generalities, among which the "three stages" of plant breeding, participatory plant breeding and biotechnology in plant breeding.
J.C. Zadoks
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Les populations autochtones de maïs au Mexique
Revue d'ethnoécologie, 2021 The article consists of three parts. In the first one, we address the peculiarities of maize crop more generally of the culture around maize in Mexico, in order to explain the need for in situ conservation and participatory improvement of this species ...
Rafael Ortega Paczka
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Evaluation of Hawaiian Heritage Sweet Potato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.) Breeding Lines
Agronomy, 2021 Producing ‘Hawaiian Heritage’ cultivars can raise the market value of locally grown sweet potatoes and increase small farmer earnings in Hawaii. Twelve sweet potato breeding lines (Ipomea batatas L.), derived from the Hawaiian maternal parent ‘Mohihi ...
Todd Anderson +5 more
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A framework for analyzing participatory plant breeding approaches and results [PDF]
Euphytica, 2001 Participatory Plant Breeding (PPB) involves scientists, farmers, and others, such as consumers, extensionists, vendors, industry, and rural cooperatives in plant breeding research. It is termed `participatory' because many actors, and especially the users, can have a research role in all major stages of the breeding and selection process.
Sperling, L. +4 more
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Crowdsourcing priorities: a new participatory ex-ante framework for crop improvement
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2023 Demand-led approaches to crop breeding involve ranking priorities across different disciplines and stakeholder categories, but the implications of decisions made during varietal development are frequently understood only years later.
Martina Occelli +2 more
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Oilseeds and fats, crops and lipids, 2018 The Participatory Plant Breeding (PPB) concept emerged twenty years ago, particularly with the aim to build alternative organizations of the plant breeding activities in developing countries. It now as well questions the developed countries, in the frame
Vincourt Patrick, Carolo Pierre
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