Resources Tagged: Plant Breeding

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  1. Plant Breeding

    Varietal Selection Crop Selection Plant Breeding

  2. Breeding for Organic and Low-Input Farming Systems: An Evolutionary–Participatory Breeding Method for Inbred Cereal Grains

    Abstract,Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, 2005 Organic and low-input farmers often plant seed varieties that have been selected under conventional practices, traditionally including high inputs of artificial fertilizers, crop protection chemicals and/or water. In addition, these crops are...
    Plant Breeding

  3. Farmer Participatory Crop Improvement. I. Varietal Selection and Breeding Methods and Their Impact on Biodiversity

    Abstract, Experimental Agriculture, 1996 Farmer participatory approaches for the identification or breeding of improved crop cultivars can be usefully categorized into participatory varietal selection (PVS) and participatory plant breeding (PPB). Various PVS and PPB methods are reviewed. PVS is a...
    Plant Breeding

  4. 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

  5. Return to Resistance: Breeding Crops to Reduce Pesticide Dependence

    1995-01-01 Analyzes contemporary crop breeding's successes and shortcomings and details new techniques of breeding food crops with inherited immunity. Discusses the pitfalls of classical plant breeding and the green revolution, offers case histories of crops that have been successfully bred to overcome...
    Plant Health Disease Control Pest Control Diseases and Pest Crop Genetics Plant Breeding

  6. Principles of crop improvement

    This book provides a broad, general introduction to the principles of plant breeding, and has been written primarily for senior undergraduate and graduate students of agriculture, horticulture and applied biology. Only a familiarity with basic botany, cytogenetics and some statistics is assumed....
    Plant Breeding Crop Improvement

  7. 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

  8. Hybridization of Crop Plants

    This publication serves as a reference on the principles and procedures used to obtain hybrid seed of self and cross-pollination crop plants. For many crops, descriptions of these procedures are passed orally from experienced to inexperienced persons and are not available in the literature. This...
    Crop Plants Crops Plant Hybridization Pollination Plant Breeding

  9. Plants, Genes, and Crop Biotechnology

    2003-01-01 This book integrates many fields to help students understand the complexity of the basic science that underlies crop and food production.
    Food Supply Crop Improvement Plant Biotechnology Plant Breeding Crop-Genetic Engin...

  10. Un Nuevo Respeto para los Agricultores

    2008-01-01 El proposito de este reporte es dar una vision colectiva sobre el Fitomejoramiento Participativa (FP) En el se aborda el enfoque desde las perspectivas tecnica y social.Ademas se identifican los para incorporar el FP a los sistemas de fotomejoramiento nacional, lo cual argumentamos como necesario...
    Spanish Language Participatory Methods Participatory Rese... Plant Breeding