Plant breeding and farmer participation
By: edited by S. Ceccarelli. E.P. Guimarães, E. Weltzien
Contributors: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Rome
Language: eng
Number of pages: 671
ISBN-13: 9789251063828
Subjects: Agricultural extension work; Farmers; Fieldwork; Agriculture; Plant breeding; Research
Description: This book complements the traditional approach to plant breeding by addressing a number of issues specifically related to the participation of farmers in a plant breeding program, and provides a comprehensive description and assessment of the use of participatory plant breeding in developing countries. It is aimed at plant breeders, social scientists, students and practitioners interested in learning more about its use, with the hope that they all will find a common ground to discuss ways in which plant breeding can be beneficial to all and can contribute to alleviate poverty.--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Crop domestication and the first plant breeders / Stan Cox; title: Theory and application of plant breeding for quantitative traits / Javier Betrán, Jesús Moreno-González and Ignacio Romagosa; title: Main stages of a plant breeding programme / Salvatore Ceccarelli; title: Methodologies for priority setting / Eva Weltzien and Anja Christinck; title: Methodologies for generating variability. pt. 1. Use of genetic resources in plant breeding / Bettina I.G. Haussmann and Heiko K. Parzies; title: pt. 2. Selection of parents and crossing strategies / John R. Witcombe and Daljit S. Virk; title: pt. 3. The development of base populations and their improvement by recurrent selection / John R. Witcombe; title: pt. 4 Mutation techniques / Miroslaw Maluszynski, ... [et al.]; title: Selection methods. pt. 1. Organizational aspects of a plant breeding programme / Salvatore Ceccarelli; title: pt. 2. Pedigree method / Flavio Capettini; title: pt. 3. Hybrid breeding / Donald N. Duvick; title: ^; title: pt. 4. Developing open-pollinated varieties using recurrent selection methods / Fred Rattunde, ... [et al.]; title: pt 5. Breeding clonally propagated crops / Wolfgang Grüneberg, ... [et al.]; title: Breeding for quantitative variables. pt. 1. Farmers' and scientists' knowledge and practice in variety choice and plant selection / Daniela Soleri and David A. Cleveland; title: pt. 2. Breeding for durable resistance to crop pests and diseases / Raoul A. Robinson; title: pt. 3. Breeding for resistance to abiotic stresses / Stefania Grando and Salvatore Ceccarelli; title: pt. 4. Breeding for nutritional quality traits / Yusuf Genc, ... [et al.]; title: pt. 5. Breeding for yield potential / José L. Araus, ... [et al.]; title: Marker-assisted selection in theory and practice / Andrew R. Barr; title: Coping with and exploiting genotype-by-environment interactions / Paolo Annicchiarico; title: Variety release and policy options / Zewdie Bishaw and Anthony J.G. can Gastel; title: ^; title: ^^; title: Participatory seed diffusion : experiences from the field / Humberto Ríos Labrada; title: Towards new roles, responsibilities and rules : the case of participatory plant breeding / Ronnie Vernooy with Pratap Shrestha, ... [et al.]; title: Breeders' rights and IPR issues / Susanne Somersalo and John Dodds; title: The impact of participatory plant breeding / Jacqueline A. Ashby.; title: ^^