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Participatory plant breeding: the best way to breed for sustainable agriculture? [PDF]
International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 2006 Participatory plant breeding began in developing countries and now some European farmers and scientists are proposing its suitability in contributing to sustainable agriculture. This paper uses both genetics and sociology to determine the conditions required.
Chiffoleau, Yuna, Desclaux, Dominique
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Agronomy, 2019 A Multi-parent Advanced Generation Intercross (MAGIC) tomato population was developed by crossing eight founder lines chosen to include a wide range of variability. The lines were previously genotyped by a genotyping by sequencing approach.
Gabriele Campanelli +6 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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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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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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Maize open-pollinated populations physiological improvement: validating tools for drought response participatory selection [PDF]
, 2019 Participatory selection—exploiting specific adaptation traits to target environments—helps to guarantees yield stability in a changing climate, in particular under low-input or organic production.
Araus +25 more
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Towards resilience through systems-based plant breeding. A review [PDF]
, 2018 How the growing world population can feed itself is a crucial, multi-dimensional problem that goes beyond sustainable development. Crop production will be affected by many changes in its climatic, agronomic, economic, and societal contexts.
Eekeren, Nick van +3 more
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