Organic crop breeding / editors, Edith T. Lammerts van Bueren, James R. Myers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lammerts van Bueren, E. T. (Edith T.)

Myers, James Robert.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plant breeding.

Organic farming.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (309 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Ames, Iowa : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Organic Crop Breeding provides readers with a thorough review of the latest efforts by crop breeders and geneticists to develop improved varieties for organic production. The book opens with chapters looking at breeding efforts that focus on specific valuable traits such as quality, pest and disease resistance as well as the impacts improved breeding efforts can have on organic production. The second part of the book is a series of crop specific case studies that look at breeding efforts currently underway from around the world in crops ranging from carrots to corn. Organic Crop Bree

Contents:

Organic crop breeding: integrating organic agricultural approaches and traditional and modern plant breeding methods / Edith T. Lammerts van Bueren and James R. Myers

Nutrient management in organic farming and consequences for direct and indirect selection strategies / Monika Messmer ... [et al.]

Pest and disease management in organic farming: implications and inspirations for plant breeding / Thomas F. Doring ... [et al.]

Approaches to breed for improved weed suppression in organically grown cereals / Steve P. Hoad ... [et al.]

Breeding for genetically diverse populations: variety mixtures and evolutionary populations / Julie C. Dawson and Isabelle Goldringer

Centralized or decentralized breeding: the potentials of participatory approaches for low-input and organic agriculture / Dominique Desclaux ... [et al.]

Values and principles in organic farming and consequences for breeding approaches and techniques / Klaus P. Wilbois, Maaike Raaijmakers, and Edith T. Lammerts van Bueren

Plant breeding, variety release and seed commercialisation: laws and policies applied to the organic sector / Véronique Chable ... [et al.]

Wheat: breeding for organic farming systems / Matt Arterburn, Kevin Murphy, and Steve S. Jones

Maize: breeding and field testing for organic farmers / Walter A. Goldstein ... [et al.]

Rice: crop breeding using farmer led participatory plant breeding / Charito P. Mendina

Soybean: breeding for organic farming systems / Johann Vollmann and Michelle Menken

Faba bean: breeding for organic farming systems / Wolfgang Link and Lamiae Ghaouti

Potato: perspectives to breed for an organic crop ideotype / Marjolein Tiemens-Hulscher, Edith. T. Lammerts van Bueren, and Ronald C.B. Hutten

Tomato: breeding for improved disease resistance in fresh market and home garden varieties / Bernd Horneburg and James R. Myers

Brassicas: breeding cole crops for organic agriculture / James R. Myers, Laurie McKenzie, and Roeland E. Voorrips

Onion: breeding onions for low-input and organic agriculture / Olga E. Scholten and Thomas W. Kuyper.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781119949985

111994998X

9781785393747

178539374X

9781283940283

1283940280

9781119949978

1119949971

9781119945932

1119945933

OCLC:

794327523