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Diversity as a Plant Breeding Objective

Agronomy
This review paper addresses the importance of increasing agrobiodiversity to cope with climate change and, at the same time, providing a sufficient amount of healthy food.
Salvatore Ceccarelli, Stefania Grando
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Organic soybean breeding: Participatory plant breeding & farmer participatory trials

Participatory Plant Breeding (PPB) is the plant breeding approach that actively involves farmers in the process of selection and breeding of different plant species. Farmer participatory trials (FPTs) are the practical and valuable tool for increasing the introduction of new and improved soybean varieties and space for screening of plant material.
Vasiljević, Marjana, Đorđević, Vuk, Ćeran, Marina, Ranđelović, Predrag, Miladinović, Jegor, Vogt-Kaute, Werner, Jocković, Bojan   +6 more
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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, Sarah Mayanja, Mariam Nakitto, Janet Mwende, Samuel Edgar Tinyiro, Irene Bayiyana, Julius Okello, Lora Forsythe, Damalie Magala, Benard Yada, Robert O. M. Mwanga, Vivian Polar   +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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Gender trait preferences among smallholder cowpea farmers in northern Ghana: lessons from a case study

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, Emmanuel Yaw Owusu, Abdul-Razak Mohammed, Theophilus Kwabla Tengey, Michael Mawunya, Francis Kusi, Haruna Mohammed   +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, Theodore Radovich, Jon-Paul Bingham, Nicolas Sinclair, Giselle Bryant, Michael Benjamin Kantar   +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., Ashby, J.A., Smith, M.E., Weltzien, Eva, McGrath, S.   +4 more
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Alternative breeding processes: at which extent Participatory Breeding should modify the concept of ideotypes in plant breeding?

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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