Plant breeding with farmers : a technical manual

Date

2012

Journal Title

Journal ISSN

Volume Title

Publisher

International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), Aleppo, SY

Abstract

The manual describes how to organize a Participatory Plant Breeding (PPB) programme in self-pollinated, crosspollinated and vegetatively propagated crops; how to design the trials, collect, organize and analyse the data; and how to use and share information. Devoted to providing detailed technical information on successfully starting and conducting a PPB programme, it has six sections: organizational issues; data collection; experimental designs; data entry; data analysis; and variety release and seed production. PPB is defined as plant breeding in which farmers, and other partners such as extension staff, seed producers, traders and NGOs, participate in the development of a new plant variety.

Description

Keywords

PLANT BREEDING, SEED PRODUCTION, PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH, PARTICIPATORY PLANT BREEDING, BIODIVERSITY, DATA ANALYSIS, ARID AND SEMI-ARID AREAS, GENETIC RESOURCES, GENOTYPES, SOFTWARE, MANUALS, METHODOLOGY, GLOBAL SOUTH, ALGERIA, EGYPT, ERITREA, ETHIOPIA, IRAN, JORDAN, MOROCCO, SYRIA, TUNISIA, YEMEN

Citation

DOI