Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations  

International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

Innovative methods for rice breeding - combining participatory plant breeding (PPB) with molecular marker techniques.

Final Technical report –This report is on a project which combined participatory plant breeding (PPB) with marker-assisted selection (MAS) to introduce quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for root growth and drought resistance in rice grown by farmers in Nepal and India.
ThemeTechnical Resources
SubjectPlant breeding techniques and approaches
PublisherDepartment for International Development (DFID)
Publication year2002
RegionsAsia
LanguagesEnglish
Resource typePublications
Resource linkhttps://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/57a08d3aed915d622c00186b/RLPSRRep26.pdf
KeywordsBest practices approaches and techniques; Farmers’ field school; Plant breeding; Seed management