Plant Breeding for a Productive, Sustainable, and Resilient Agribiosystem

Plant Breeding for a Productive, Sustainable, and Resilient Agribiosystem

Download for free

PDF format in this language: English

Asian Journal of Agriculture and Development (AJAD) - Call for papers!

Is our website helpful?
 


Learn more about our Privacy Policy

by Eufemio T. Rasco, Jr. and Noriel Angeles
2016 | Agriculture and Development Notes Vol. 7 No. 6 | 4 pages
  • Print 2225-9694
  • e-ISSN 2599-3860
English

Traditional plant breeding aimed to develop varieties with limited regard for crop integration in a  complex agribiosystem. This old plant breeding paradigm was meant to serve the dominant monoculture, a highly specialized system of crop production. 

While this paradigm gave the world dramatic improvements in individual crop productivity, it fails to exploit the full potential of the individual crop as well as that of the other components of diversified farming systems.

Traditional plant breeding is associated with objectives uch as adaptation to biotic and abiotic stresses, and breeding for adaptation to photoperiod and temperature. These objectives consider the environment as a challenge to be overcome.

Download for free

PDF format in this language: English

Asian Journal of Agriculture and Development (AJAD) - Call for papers!

Is our website helpful?
 


Learn more about our Privacy Policy