Resources Tagged: Plant Breeding

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  1. FM 2016 Farming Matters Vol 32 Special Issue

    2016-01-20 Access and benefit sharing of genetic resources for family farmers - theory and practice Improving access to vegetable seeds for resilient family farms in Costa Rica Access and benefit sharing in participatory plant breeding in Southwest China Evolutionary populations - living gene banks in...
    Community Seed Banks Genetics Plant Breeding Potatoes Ecuador Brazil Costa Rica Genetic Resources

  2. 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...
    Plant Breeding Participatory Rese... Participatory Methods Spanish Language

  3. Plants of Economic Importance in Haiti

    This book was inspired by the frustration I felt when I tried to find current information about Haiti. It is the result of countless hours of research, numerous reviews by experts on Haitian flora, and numerous interviews with Haitiens. However, it is far from complete, and it probably contains...
    Haiti Economic Development Plant Propagation plants Plant Breeding

  4. 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

  5. Plant Breeding

    Plant Breeding Crop Selection Varietal Selection

  6. 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

  7. 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...
    Plant Breeding Pollination Plant Hybridization Crops Crop Plants

  8. 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....
    Crop Improvement Plant Breeding

  9. Introduction to plant breeding

    1977-01-19 This book is designed as a text to be used in an introductory course in plant breeding for advanced undergraduate students. Every attempt has been made to relate plant breeding to underlying genetic principles.
    Plant Breeding

  10. Principles of plant breeding

    As ancient as agriculture itself, plant breeding is one of civilization's oldest activities. Today, world food production is more dependent than ever on the successful cultivation of only a handful of major crops, while continuing advances in agriculture rely on successfully breeding new...
    Plant Breeding