LIVESEED workshop on new concepts and strategies for organic plant breeding: Internal report on the results of Workshop 1 for input from formal and informal breeders involved in breeding for organic farming systems for priority setting of research needs for organic plant breeding and selection methods

Summary

Innovations in organic breeding are urgently needed. These innovations can include methodologies, methods and tools and cover a wide range of areas. In order to understand how these methodologies, methods and tools are interconnected and what exactly their value can be for organic breeding, and organic agriculture at large, a first concept of a systems-based breeding approach was developed.
At the workshop held at the University of Kassel, Witzenhausen in Germany on February 21 2018, the concept of the systems-based breeding approach (Figure 1) was presented and discussed with all participants. The aim of the workshop was to introduce and discuss a common future vision and paradigm change for a more integrated systems-based breeding concept.