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Organic Crop Breeding.
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicester :
John Wiley & Sons,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contributors; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Section 1: General Topics Related to Organic Plant Breeding; Chapter 1: Organic Crop Breeding: Integrating Organic Agricultural Approaches and Traditional and Modern Plant Breeding Methods; Introduction; How Different Are Organic Farming Systems?; Consequences for Cultivar Requirements; From Cultivar Evaluation to Organic Seed Production and Plant Breeding Programs; The History of Organic Crop Breeding in Europe and the United States; Perspectives and Challenges for Breeding for Organic Agriculture.
- ConclusionChapter 2: Nutrient Management in Organic Farming and Consequences for Direct and Indirect Selection Strategies; Introduction; Availability of Nutrients in Organic Farming; Roots: The Hidden Potential; Even Greater Complexity: Plant-Microbe-Soil Interactions; Importance of Selection Environments; Breeding Strategies; Chapter 3: Pest and Disease Management in Organic Farming: Implications and Inspirations for Plant Breeding; Introduction; Plant Protection in Organic Farming; Key Target Areas of Plant Breeding for Organic Plant Protection.
- Breeding Goals for Ecological Plant ProtectionPlant Breeding Approaches Directly Targeting Pests or Diseases; Plant Breeding Approaches with Indirect Effects on Plant Health; Discussion and Conclusions; Chapter 4: Approaches to Breed for Improved Weed Suppression in Organically Grown Cereals; Background; Crop Competitiveness Against Weeds; Crop Traits Involved in Weed Suppression; Selection of Traits and Their Evaluation in Plant Breeding Programs; Selection Strategies; Understanding Crop-Weed Interactions to Assist Plant Breeding; Concluding Remarks and Wider Perspectives.
- Chapter 5: Breeding for Genetically Diverse Populations: Variety Mixtures and Evolutionary PopulationsIntroduction; Benefits of Genetic Diversity for Organic Agriculture; On-Farm Conservation of Useful Genetic Diversity; Breeding Strategies; Conclusion; Chapter 6: Centralized or Decentralized Breeding: The Potentials of Participatory Approaches for Low-Input and Organic Agriculture; Introduction; Centralized and Decentralized Breeding: Definitions; What Can Be Decentralized in Breeding and Why?; Participatory Approaches; PPB: A Single Term Yielding Different Approaches.
- Some Examples of PPB for Organic and Low Input Agriculture in Southern CountriesSome Examples of PPB for Organic and Low Input Agriculture in Northern Countries; General Conclusions and Limits of PPB Approaches in Organic Farming; Chapter 7: Values and Principles in Organic Farming and Consequences for Breeding Approaches and Techniques; Introduction; Arguments Against Genetic Engineering; Organic Basic Principles; Toward Organic Breeding; From Values to Criteria: Evaluation of Breeding Techniques; How to Deal with Varieties Bred with Non-compliant Techniques?