Number of crosses and population size for participatory and classical plant breeding

By J. Witcombe, D. Virk. Euphytica, 2001

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Molecular Biology, Plant Science

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Developments in breeding cereals for organic agriculture (2008, unknown): “But there are many questions, such as how many, and which, parents to use (see Witcombe and Virck 2001 ).”
Marker-assisted selection: an approach for precision plant breeding in the twenty-first century (2008, background): “74 Yu et al. (2000) CIMMYT Mexico maize 1.”
Participatory plant breeding in maize: A case study from Gujarat, India (2003, methodology): “However, resources for the innovative breeding techniques were made available by the breeding strategy in PPB, that was suggested by Witcombe et al. (1996) and Witcombe & Virk (2001) , of concentrating on only a few crosses or populations.”
Participatory plant breeding research: Opportunities and challenges for the international crop improvement system (2004, background): “Recent papers that analyze PPB issues in the context of accepted plant breeding theory (e.g., Atlin et al., 2001; Witcombe & Virk, 2001 ) or draw on experience gained through formal plant breeding research to strengthen PPB methods (e.g.”
Decentralized selection and participatory approaches in plant breeding for low-input systems (2008, background): “In PPB, a more eYcient strategy may be to carefully choose parents based on important characteristics, make a few crosses with these parents, and then increase the progeny population size for on-farm selection (Witcombe and Virk 2001).”
Breeding crops for reduced-tillage management in the intensive, rice–wheat systems of South Asia (2006, background): “Witcombe and Virk (2001) emphasized a low-cross-number strategy for inbreeding crops like wheat and rice, suggesting that a good approach would be to select and produce large segregating populations, thereby increasing the probability of recovering superior genotypes.”
Challenges to wheat production in South Asia (2007, methodology): “The participatory research is expected to complement the on-going research in strengthening farmer’s hands (Witcombe et al. 2003; Witcombe and Virk 2001).”