Resources Tagged: Plant Breeding

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  1. Participatory plant breeding: proceedings of a workshop on participatory plant breeding 26-29 July 1995, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    The papers in this volume were originally presented at a workshop on participatory plant breeding which was held in Wageningen, the Netherlands, on 26-29 July 1995. The workshop was convened to crystallize a novel approach that plant breeders genetic resource conservationists and social...
    Plant Breeding

  2. Secrets of Stress Response

    Abstract, PSU Ag Science Magazine, 2019 Scientists are trying to unlock the secrets of stress response. If they succeed, crops may be designed to deal with a warming planet. Understanding how plants react to environmental stress and how we humans can enhance or direct their responses is a key...
    Plant Breeding

  3. Plants, Genes, and Crop Biotechnology

    01.01.2003 This book integrates many fields to help students understand the complexity of the basic science that underlies crop and food production.
    Crop-Genetic Engin... Plant Breeding Plant Biotechnology Crop Improvement Food Supply

  4. ‘Caro Rich’ Tomato Seed for Increased Vitamin A

    20.07.2011 In her book, Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties (reviewed in EDN 87), Carol Deppe mentions an open-pollinated, orange-fleshed tomato variety called ‘Caro Rich.’ The book states that ‘Caro Rich’ is second only to carrot as a source of beta-carotene (Vitamin A). It is an indeterminate variety, so...
    Plant Breeding Hybrid Vegetables Tomatoes

  5. Introduction of Maize Hybrids to Areas Currently Using Open-Pollinated Varieties

    19.07.1999 In Honduras, after Hurricane Mitch, several NGO's working with small farmers were concerned that cross-pollination occurring between the hybrid maize variety and existing open-pollinated varieties would reduce yields of both traditional varieties and the new, improved open-pollinated varieties in...
    Maize Plant Breeding

  6. New Disease-Resistant Banana Hybrids Available

    19.02.1998 Dr. Phil Rowe, with the Honduran Foundation for Agricultural Research (FHIA), has developed two robust hybrid bananas that are resistant to Black Sigatoka. These new hybrids are also resistant to Panama disease and tolerant of nematodes.
    Plant Breeding Fruit Trees Banana Plant Disease

  7. ‘Uberlandia’ Carrot

    20.01.2002 Several years ago (in EDN Issue 43, December 1993), we wrote that seed was available for a carrot that will set seed in the tropics (normally carrots only produce seed in temperate climates with a cold winter). Dr. Warwick Kerr sent us the original ‘Uberlandia’ carrot seed from Brazil nearly ten...
    Vegetables Root Crops Plant Breeding Carrot Seed Saving

  8. Rice Genome Mapped

    20.10.2001 In late January of this year [2001], two private companies announced that they have mapped the entire genome (i.e. all of the genes) of the rice variety ‘NIPPON barre.’
    Plant Breeding Plant Genetics Rice

  9. Especially for Sub-Saharan Africa: Mother and Baby Maize Variety Trials

    20.07.2003 Testing of new varieties of maize is done in communities through what have been referred to as Mother and Baby Trials. If you are doing agricultural development work in Africa, you will want to read about—and perhaps become involved in—an exciting program that includes agriculturalists and...
    Maize Plant Breeding Participatory Methods West Africa East Africa

  10. Hybrid Maize Revisited

    20.07.2005 Over the years ECHO has been asked to give advice concerning whether or not to use hybrid seed. We carry very few hybrid varieties in our seed bank because we expect people who receive seed to multiply it locally. Now some new information about this old question, specifically about maize, has...
    Maize Plant Breeding Rural Development Hybrid