There is currently a lack of regulatory clarity in the European Union (EU), as well as in other countries, for the application of genome editing in plant breeding. We argue that the development and application of genome editing may eventually bridge the regulatory discrepancy between the relatively unregulated so called conventional breeding techniques and the overregulated transgenic technique...

Variability in breeding programmes for self-fertilised crops is created by crossing, and if the value of the crosses cannot be predicted in advance then this uncertainty means that a strategy of making many crosses is appropriate. However, since there is a limit to the capacity of a breeding programme, the more crosses that are made the smaller the size of each cross (F2 population size or numb...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the advantages and disadvantages of Participatory Plant Breeding (PPB). Seventy-six breeders were randomly selected from among 95 breeders who were working at the Seed and Plant Improvement Institute, Karaj, Iran. Data were collected by a questionnaire as the main data collection instrument. The face and content validity of the questionnaire was appr...

Cleveland, David A. (Department of Anthropology and the Environmental Studies Program, University of California, Santa Barbara 93106-3210, USA, [email protected]), Daniela Soleri (Office of Arid Lands Studies, University of Arizona, 1955 E 6th St, Tucson, AZ 85719, USA; current address, Center for People, Food and Environment, 340 Arboleda, Santa Barbara, CA 93110, USA, and Institute fo...

Cleveland, David A. (Department of Anthropology and the Environmental Studies Program, University of California, Santa Barbara 93106-3210, USA, [email protected]), Daniela Soleri (Office of Arid Lands Studies, University of Arizona, 1955 E 6 th St, Tucson, AZ 85719, USA; current address, Center for People, Food and Environment, 340 Arboleda, Santa Barbara, CA 93110, USA, and Institute f...