Mutation Breeding in Plants-Improving Plant Protein and Oil by Nuclear Techniques

New Plant Breeding Techniques

New Plant Breeding Techniques – Ethical Considerations

Improving Nutrition in Ethiopia through Plant Breeding and Soil Management

s in Conference Proceedings: See Annex 1 Invited Presentations/ Abstracts/ Publications Gender and nutrition sensitization workshop The workshop (reported earlier) which was attended by 120 stakeholders (farmers, male and female, HEWs, Das, and policy/decision makers) provided a number of lessons learned and recommendations for considering gender more carefully when designing, implementing and ...

Developments in Mutation Assisted Plant Breeding - NTR2009 Supplement

Spontaneous mutation, the naturally occurring heritable change to genetic material which played a pivotal role in biological evolution and formed the basis for speciation and domestication of both crops and animals, can be artificially induced and supports the maintenance of biodiversity. Since the discovery of X-ray and other forms of radiation at the end of the 19th century and the ensuing de...

Concepts and Strategies of Organic Plant Breeding in Light of Novel Breeding Techniques

In this paper, we describe the development of a set of guiding principles for the evaluation of breeding techniques by the organic sector over time. The worldwide standards of organic agriculture (OA) do not allow genetic engineering (GE) or any products derived from genetic engineering. The standards in OA are an expression of the underlying principles of health, ecology, fairness and care. Th...