Participatory Bread Wheat Breeding in Fars Province

Participatory plant breeding (PPB) has been practiced for several reasons, including sociological, humanitarian, and egalitarian. However, PPB should be practiced simply because it increases plant breeding efficiency, which is defined as 1) the ratio between the number of varieties adopted and the number of crosses made, 2) the response to selection, and 3) the benefit/cost ratio, not only as often done by public breeding programs, by the number of varieties released. This publication presents the study case of the Participatory Bread Wheat Breeding in Fars Province, Iran.