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| Prins, Udo; Nuijten, E.H.A.C.P.. |
| Particularly for organic farming, mixed cropping of cereal and legume crops can provide advantages in terms of nutrient use efficiency, weed suppression and more stable yields. Cereals benefit from the nitrogen fixing ability of legumes, which also result in higher protein levels in the cereal crop, improving its quality as fodder and potentially also as food. Grain legumes benefit from the reduced weed pressure in cereal crops. In the past 10 years, various combinations of cereal (particularly wheat, barley, oats and triticale) and legume (faba bean, peas and lupins) crops have been tested by the Louis Bolk Institute. To optimise the crop mixtures, each combination requires specific traits of the cereal and legume crop. So far, breeding has focused on... |
| Tipo: Other |
Palavras-chave: Crop combinations and interactions. |
| Ano: 2013 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/27848/1/2860.pdf |
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| Nuijten, E.H.A.C.P.; Janmaat, Leen; Lammerts van Bueren, E.T.. |
| As the financial threshold for cost-effective breeding continues to be raised, increasingly more crops are becoming 'too small' for breeding. The long-term consequence is that production of these crops will become increasingly difficult, because the availablevarieties will not be adapted to future changes in the cultivation system (new methods,new diseases, etc). The question is how to develop alternative crop breeding models for small markets.This is not only a problem for the organic sector, but increasingly also for minor crops within the conventional sector. To address this problem, the Louis Bolk Institute (LBI) is developing innovative approaches to funding and organizing crop breeding for small markets. For various arable crops the LBI has initiated... |
| Tipo: Other |
Palavras-chave: Breeding; Genetics and propagation. |
| Ano: 2013 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/27287/1/2864.pdf |
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