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International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

Plant breeding with farmers: A technical manual

This manual describes how to organize a participatory plant breeding (PPB) programme in self-pollinated, cross-pollinated and vegetatively propagated crops, how to design the trials, collect, organize and analyse the data, and eventually how to use and share the information generated by a PPB programme.
ThemeTechnical Resources
SubjectPlant breeding techniques and approaches
PublisherInternational Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
Publication year2012
RegionsGlobal
LanguagesEnglish
Resource typeLearning materials
Resource linkhttp://www.cenesta.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/plant-breeding-with-farmers-tm-ceccarelli-2012-en.pdf
KeywordsAgricultural biodiversity; Best practices approaches and techniques; Plant breeding