# Participatory plant breeding, what approach for rubber trees?

Pascal Montoro, Siti Subandiyah, Fetrina Oktavia

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Pascal Montoro, Siti Subandiyah, Fetrina Oktavia. Participatory plant breeding, what approach for rubber trees?. International Rubber Conference (IRC 2024), IRRDB; Rubber Authority of Thailand, Feb 2024, Pattaya, Thailand. pp.12. hal-05181855

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# Participatory Plant Breeding, What Approach for Rubber Trees?

Pascal Montoro1,2, Siti Subandiyah3, Fetrina Oktavia4

1. CIRAD, UMR AGAP Institut, F-34398 Montpellier, France. Email: pascal.montoro@cirad.fr

2. UMR AGAP Institut, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, F-34398 Montpellier, France

3. Faculty of Agriculture, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Email: sitisubandiyah@ugm.ac.id

4. Sembawa Research Centre, Indonesian Rubber Research Institute, Palembang, Indonesia.

Email: fetrina_oktavia@yahoo.com

## ABSTRACT

Participatory plant breeding (PPB) is part of a participatory research approach involving stakeholders in an agricultural sector and particular farmers. PPB is a socially inclusive process that empowers farmers, increases agrobiodiversity and can improve gender equality. PPB is widely applied to food crops, but also to some perennial tree species such as coffee, cocoa, oil palm and rubber. Since the 1990s, on-farm participatory trials have been set up in rubber monoculture and agroforestry systems. In breeding, this type of approach was used to evaluate germplasm and promising rubber clones in India. More recently, the Rubber Agroforestry Breeding Initiative for Smallholders (RUBIS) is reconsidering PPB by involving stakeholders to identify traits adapted to farmers' cultivation conditions and climate change to develop adaptive technical packages for smallholders. This paper attempts to discuss the advantages and constraints of PPB in rubber breeding.

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