Naslov
The goals in plant breeding for organic farming: A step back is a step forward

Autori
Vokurka, Aleš ; Bolarić, Snježana

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
Book of Abstract: IV International Symposium for Agriculture and Food / - Skopje : St. Cyril and Nethodius University in Skopje ; Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Food, 2022, 285-285

ISBN
13 978-9989-76-5

Skup
4th International Symposium for Agriculture and Food

Mjesto i datum
Sjeverna Makedonija, 12.10.2022. - 14.02.2023

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Poster

Vrsta recenzije
Recenziran

Ključne riječi
breeding goals, breeding programmes, genetic resources, cultivar traits

Sažetak
Organic farming is a niche within the entire agricultural production with its specific requirements, based on special set of values different from the values of industrial agricultural production. As a production system based on holistic approach, organic farming puts an emphasis on traits that are going for yield stability and ecological sustainability, rather than pure yield quantity, as usual in the conventional plant breeding. In order to decrease and finally annul the technological and production inputs, such as energy, fertilizers, and plant protection products from the outside of the farm unity, the organic production in requiring cultivars with complex traits that has been neglected and non-utilized during the last hundred years of conventional high-yield oriented breeding for industrial farming. These traits are those which provide higher potential of genotype adaptability within the given production environment regarding the climate and soil, nutrients and water availability, including different plant architectures, to ensure better biotic and abiotic stress relief of the crop. Some of these traits have been a characteristics of old cultivars, abandoned even as the source of genetic variability in modern plant breeding, and possibly lost in genetic erosion and biodiversity narrowing. These genetic resources might be revived in the breeding for organic agriculture. Here we present the main goals in plant breeding for organic farming and the traits that should be put into the consideration in breeding for organic farming.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Poljoprivreda (agronomija)

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