Training & teaching materials

Online seminar on how citizen sciences can be applied for cost-efficient organic variety testing in Europe with Jacob van Etten (Alliance Bioversity-CIAT). Jacob van Etten participated in the development of ClimMob, a platform designed for on-farm testing with citizen engagement.

• Category: Plant breeding
• Institution: IFOAM Organics Europe
• Author: Jacob van Etten (Alliance Bioversity-CIAT)
• Relation: LIVESEED
• Year: 2020
• Language: English

Online seminar on experimental designs and statistical methods and tools relevant for decentralised on-farm breeding with Pierre Rivière (Mètis). Pierre Rivière illustrates several analyses as well as a decision tree to perform the appropriated analysis according to objectives and experimental constraints.

• Category: Plant breeding
• Institution: IFOAM Organics Europe
• Author: Pierre Rivière (Mètis)
• Relation: LIVESEED
• Year: 2020
• Language: English

Online seminar on crop breeding, diversity and climate change. Anders Borgen (Agrologica, Denmark) talks about diversity in plant breeding and Ilmar Tamm (Estonian Crop Research Institute) about organic cereal seed production in Estonia.

• Category: Seed production, Plant breeding
• Institution: Häme University of Applied Sciences (HAMK), Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), ProAgria South-Finland & Salpaus Further Education
• Author: Anders Borgen (Agrologica) & Ilmar Tamm (Estonian Crop Research Institute)
• Relation: Luomussa vara parempi
• Year: 2020
• Language: English

Online seminar on biodynamic cereal breeding. FiBL CH and gzpk give an insight into the facilities of biodynamic cereal breeding and explain the long journey from the first crossings to the development of a new cultivar. 

• Category: Plant breeding
• Institution: gzpk & FiBL CH
• Relation: LIVESEED
• Year: 2020
• Crop group: Cereals, Arable Crops
• Language: German

Putative collection of each target species identified. Identification of wheat, potato, soybean and buckwheat genetic material from diverse environments caross Europe as well as evaluation of genetic material of non-European origin. 

• Category: Plant breeding
• Author: Pavol Hauptvogel, Heinrich Grausgruber, Peter Dolničar, Kristina Petrović, Vuk Djordjević, Dagmar Janovská, Beata Tatarovska, Jaroslaw Plich, Bogdan Flis, Paul Bilsborrow, Vladimir Meglic
• Relation: ECOBREED
• Year: 2019
• Crop group: Arable Crops, Cereals, Legumes
• Language: English

A guide to participatory experimentation with underutilised genetic resources. This booklet is a guide to creatively think about planning and conducting participatory evaluation of underutilised genetic resources, to increase crop diversity in sustainable farming and food systems.

• Category: Plant breeding
• Author: Ambrogio Costanzo (The Organic Research Centre) & Estelle Serpolay (ITAB)
• Relation: DIVERSIFOOD
• Year: 2019
• Language: English

Diversity and participatory research for organic agriculture. This presentation gives an overview on the issue of seeds in organic agriculture and how peasant seeds and participatory plant breeding approaches can be connected. 

• Category: Seed production, Plant breeding
• Institution: INRAE
• Author: Véronique Chable
• Relation: LIVESEED
• Year: 2019
• Language: English

Common bunt management and demonstration of different seed treatments. The fungi Tilletia tritici and T. laevis affect spring and wheat wheat causing common bunt. In two videos, Anders Borgen (Agrologica, Denmark) talks about the theoretical background and gives us a practical demonstration on how to manage common bunt in organic seed production. 

• Category: Seed production
• Institution: IFOAM Organics Europe
• Author: Anders Borgen (Agrologica)
• Relation: LIVESEED
• Year: 2019
• Crop group: Arable Crops, Cereals
• Language: English

Tasting guide - tools to integrate organoleptic quality criteria into breeding programmes. This technical booklet provides methodologies and guidance to implement sensory evaluations for organoleptic quality assessment in multi-actors projects for organic agriculture. It presents five detailed tests that can be used in sensory evaluation, methodologies on how to prepare the samples and a glossary.

• Category: Plant breeding
• Institution: ITAB
• Author: Camille Vindras, Nicolas Sinoir, Frédéric Rey, Aude Coulomnel & Bruno Taupier-Letag
• Relation: Solibam, DIVERSIFOOD
• Year: 2018
• Language: English

Methods and tools for decentralized on farm breeding. This technical booklet describes experimental designs and statistical methods and tools that are relevant for decentralized on-farm breeding.

• Category: Plant breeding
• Author: Isabelle Goldringer (INRAE) & Pierre Rivière (RSP)
• Relation: DIVERSIFOOD
• Year: 2018
• Language: English