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Participatory potato breeding model involving organic farmers and commercial breeding companies in the Netherlands

Lammerts van Bueren, E.T.; Engelen, Christel and Hutten, R.C.B. (2014) Participatory potato breeding model involving organic farmers and commercial breeding companies in the Netherlands. In: 7th Organic Seed Growers Conference, Organic Seed Alliance, Port Townsend, WA, pp. 69-73.

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Organic farmers urgently need cultivars resistant to Phytophthora infestans. Such cultivars also need to be adapted to other traits important for organic farming systems. One goal in the first five years of this ten-year, public-private partnership was to establish a program within the Dutch potato breeding system that includes farmer breeders working in close collaboration with six commercial breeding companies and two research institutes. To meet the goals we have involved 14 organic farmer breeders through setting up a yearly breeding course. A pre-breeding program is now running to introgress late blight resistance from wild relatives into cultivated material, and to make crossings with advances genitors to distribute seeds to farmer and commercial breeders for selection. In this paper a short overview is given of the results of 2009-2013.


EPrint Type:Conference paper, poster, etc.
Type of presentation:Paper
Keywords:Organic farming, cultivars, potato, Phytophthora infestans
Subjects: Crop husbandry
Crop husbandry > Breeding, genetics and propagation
Crop husbandry > Crop health, quality, protection
Crop husbandry > Production systems > Root crops
Research affiliation: Netherlands > Louis Bolk Institute
Netherlands > Wageningen University & Research (WUR)
Deposited By: Broekhuizen, Dr Roelinka
ID Code:26866
Deposited On:02 Sep 2014 13:43
Last Modified:02 Sep 2014 13:43
Document Language:English
Status:Published
Refereed:Peer-reviewed and accepted

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