Guide Plant Breeding Technician IT
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Developing new varieties of maize, beans, and cereals that have agronomic or other traits that are valued by both agricultural producers and end users has been a task that has been performed for millenniums. Farming has relied on seeds bred for higher yield and flavorful crops.
If you are interested in setting up a plant breeding business or organization, this is a guide to help you get started. It should help you get started, with the right equipment, setting up a workspace, techniques for organising your seeds and documenting progress.
[edit] See Also
- Howto write a CIMMYT maize pedigree
- wikipedia:Plant_breeding
- wikipedia:Maize
- wikipedia:Beans
- wikipedia:Barley
- wikipedia:Triticale
[edit] References
- Wikipedia: Plant Breeding
- Global Partnership Initiative for Plant Breeding Capacity Building (GIPB)[1]
- Luther Burbank: his methods and discoveries and their practical application[2]
- This is a classic. The foreword could be quoted for this wiki as it echoes the intentions of this wiki.
- Principles of Plant Genetics and Breeding, by George Acquaah,Blackwell Publishing Ltd.(2007)
- Pg. 431 Materials, equipment and machinery for field evaluation of genotypes
- Pg. 285 Common Plant Breeding Notations
- Pg. 426 MSTAT BR series
- New Maize and Wheat Gene Bank Operations Manual [3]
- "DISCOVERING" by Robert Scott Root-Bernstein, , ISBN: 0735100071
- See: IMP's Manual of Discovering
- Sparks of Genius: The Thirteen Thinking Tools of the World's Most Creative People by Robert S. Root-Bernstein, Michele M. Root-Bernstein
- Manjit S. Kang, "Handbook of Formulas and Software for Plant Geneticists and Breeders", (2003), Food Products Press and The Haworth Press Inc.
- ISBN: 1-56022-948-9 (hard)
- ISBN: 1-56022-949-7 (soft)
- Library of Congress: QK981.5 .H36 2003
- Plant biotechnology in Canada [4]
- Futures in Biotech with Marc Pelletier [5]
- Sierhuis, M. and W. J. Clancey (2002). "Modeling and Simulating Work Practice: A human-centered method for work systems design." IEEE Intelligent Systems Volume 17(5)(Special Issue on Human-Centered Computing).
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