Plant breeding and farmer participation

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 also aimed at 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.

Crop domestication and the first plant breeders / Stan Cox -- Theory and application of plant breeding for quantitative traits / Javier Betrán, Jesús Moreno-González and Ignacio Romagosa -- Main stages f a plant breeding programme / Salwatore Ceccarelli -- Methodologies for priority setting / Eva Weltzien and Anja Christinck -- Methodologies for generating variability. pt. 1. Use of genetic resources in plant breeding / Bettina I.G. Haussmann and Heiko K. Parzies -- pt. 2. Selection of parents and crossing strategies / John R. Witcombe and Daljit S. Virk -- pt. 3. The development of base populations and their improvement by recurrent selection / John R. Witcombe -- pt. 4 Mutation techniques / Miroslaw Maluszynski [and others] -- Selection methods. pt. 1. Organizational aspects of a plant breeding programme / Salvatore Ceccarelli -- pt. 2. Pedigree method / Flavio Capettini -- pt. 3. Hybrid breeding / Donald N. Duvick.

pt. 4. Developing open-pollinated varieties using recurrent selection methods / Fred Rattunde [and others] -- pt 5. Breeding clonally propagated crops / Wolfgang Grüneberg [and others] -- Breeding for quantitative variables. pt. 1. Farmers' and scientists' knowledge…