Hossienichaleshtari, Maryam

[ 1 ] - Participatory breeding, an approach for sustainable production of new rice cultivars in Iran

 Over the past 50 years, thousands of rice varieties have been introduced by plant breeders to agricultural communities all over the world. Despite the improvement of attributes such as grain yield and tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses, a significant portion of farmers still prefer local varieties over the improved cultivars. The main reasons for this perference are the absence of a dire...