plant breeding - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Breeding: Encyclopedia - Breeding
Breeding has several meanings related to procreation: In animal husbandry and in horticulture the selection of stock for propagation and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - University Of Adelaide: Encyclopedia - University Of Adelaide
The University of Adelaide The University of Adelaide (or Adelaide University) is located in Adelaide, South Australia. It was founded i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Botany: Encyclopedia - Botany
Botany is the scientific study of plant life. As a branch of biology, it is also sometimes referred to as plant science(s) or plant biolo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Agriculture: Encyclopedia - Agriculture
Agriculture is the process of producing food, feed, fiber and other desired products by the cultivation of certain plants and the raising...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Horticulture: Encyclopedia - Horticulture
The Latin words hortus (garden plant) and cultura (culture) together form horticulture, classically defined as the culture or growing of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Agriculture: Encyclopedia Ii - Agriculture - Overview
Agriculture can refer to subsistence agriculture, the production of enough food to meet just the needs of the farmer/agriculturalist and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Agriculture In Australia: Encyclopedia Ii - Agriculture In Australia - Major Agricultural Products
Australia produces a large variety of primary products for both export and domestic consumption. The top ten agricultural products in 200...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Protoplast: Encyclopedia Ii - Protoplast - Enzymes For The Preparation Of Protoplasts
Cell wall are made from a variety of polysaccharides, protoplasts can be made by degrading cell walls with a mixture of the appropriate p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Organic Farming: Encyclopedia Ii - Organic Farming - Issues
All aspects of organic farming and organic food are under debate. Environmentalists, food safety advocates, various consumer protection, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Norman Borlaug: Encyclopedia Ii - Norman Borlaug - Expansion To South Asia: The Green Revolution
Main article: Green Revolution In 1961 to 1962, Borlaug's dwarf spring wheat strains were sent for multilocation testing in the Internati...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Organic Farming: Encyclopedia Ii - Organic Farming - Issues
Intense debate surrounds all aspects of organic farming and organic food. Environmentalists, food safety advocates, various consumer prot...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Agriculture: Encyclopedia Ii - Agriculture - Overview
Agriculture sometimes refers to subsistence agriculture, the production of enough food to meet just the needs of the farmer/agriculturali...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - University Of Adelaide: Encyclopedia Ii - University Of Adelaide - Academia
The University is divided into five faculties, the Faculty of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences, the Faculty of Health Scie...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Geography Of Brazil: Encyclopedia Ii - Geography Of Brazil - Geographic Regions
Brazil's twenty-six states and the Federal District (Distrito Federal) are divided conventionally into five regions: North (Norte), North...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Botany: Encyclopedia Ii - Botany - Scope And Importance Of Botany
As with other life forms in biology, plant life can be studied from different perspectives, from the molecular, genetic and biochemical l...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Agriculture: Encyclopedia Ii - Agriculture - Overview
Agriculture can refer to subsistence agriculture, the production of enough food to meet just the needs of the farmer/agriculturalist and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Agriculture: Encyclopedia Ii - Agriculture - Crops
Agriculture - Seed Testing. Seeds are tested for various qualities to ensure a high quality harvest, and to limit or prevent the spread...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Norman Borlaug: Encyclopedia Ii - Norman Borlaug - Current Roles
Following his retirement, Borlaug has continued to participate actively in teaching, research and activism. He spends much of the year ba...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Norman Borlaug: Encyclopedia Ii - Norman Borlaug - Wheat Research In Mexico
The Cooperative Wheat Research Production Program, a joint venture by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Mexican Ministry of Agriculture,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Norman Borlaug: Encyclopedia Ii - Norman Borlaug - Early Life Education And Family
Borlaug is the great-grandchild of Norwegian immigrants to the United States. Ole Olson Dybevig and Solveig Thomasdotter Rinde, from Leik...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Agriculture In Australia: Encyclopedia Ii - Agriculture In Australia - Governance
Agriculture is both a federal and state responsibility in Australia. The Federal Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF)...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Norman Borlaug: Encyclopedia Ii - Norman Borlaug - Honors And Recognition
In 1968, Borlaug received what he considered an especially satisfying tribute when the people of Ciudad Obregón, where some of his earli...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Norman Borlaug: Encyclopedia Ii - Norman Borlaug - Career
From 1942 to 1944, Borlaug was employed as a microbiologist at DuPont in Wilmington, Delaware. It was planned that he would lead research...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Organic Farming: Encyclopedia Ii - Organic Farming - History
The organic movement began as a reaction of insiders (agricultural scientists and farmers) against the industrialization of agriculture. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Agriculture: Encyclopedia Ii - Agriculture - History
Archaeobotanists have traced the selection and cultivation of specific food plant characteristics, such as a semi-tough rachis and larger...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Organic Farming: Encyclopedia Ii - Organic Farming - The Future
Organic farming is at a crossroads. Despite the growth in the organic food market over the last decade, the future of the small, independ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Organic Farming: Encyclopedia Ii - Organic Farming - Productivity
A 22-year farm trial study by Cornell University published in 2005 concluded that organic farming produces the same corn and soybean yiel...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Organic Farming: Encyclopedia Ii - Organic Farming - Standards
Increasingly, organic farming is defined by formal standards regulating production methods, and in some cases, final output. Two types of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Agriculture In Australia: Encyclopedia Ii - Agriculture In Australia - History Of Agriculture In Australia
Following European settlement, the wool industry was the first large scale agricultural enterprise in Australia’s history. Wool was of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Organic Farming: Encyclopedia Ii - Organic Farming - Methods
Organic farming involves fostering natural processes, often over extended periods of time, and a holistic approach. Chemical-based farmin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Organic Farming: Encyclopedia Ii - Organic Farming - Overview
Organic farming excludes the use of synthetic inputs, such as synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, and genetically modified organisms (G...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Botany: Encyclopedia Ii - Botany - History
Botany - Early botany before 1945. Among the earliest of botanical works, written around 300 B.C., are two large treatises by Theophras...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Organic Farming: Encyclopedia Ii - Organic Farming - The Future
Organic farming is at a crossroads. Despite the growth in the organic food market over the last decade, the future of the small, independ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Geography Of Brazil: Encyclopedia Ii - Geography Of Brazil - The Environment
The environmental problem that attracted most international attention in Brazil in the 1980s was undoubtedly deforestation in the Amazon....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Geography Of Brazil: Encyclopedia Ii - Geography Of Brazil - Climate
Although 90 percent of the country is within the tropical zone, the climate of Brazil varies considerably from the mostly tropical North ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Geography Of Brazil: Encyclopedia Ii - Geography Of Brazil - Area And Land Boundaries
Area: total: 8,514,215 km² (3,287,357 sq. mi) land: 8,456,510 km² (3,265,076 sq. mi) water: 55,455 km² (21,411 sq. mi) note: includes ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Organic Farming: Encyclopedia Ii - Organic Farming - History
The development of organic farming is one of methods and markets. It is also largely the history of the organic movement, which began as ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Organic Farming: Encyclopedia Ii - Organic Farming - Methods
Organic farming incorporates scientific knowledge and comprehensive traceability with traditional farming practices, based on knowledge a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Organic Farming: Encyclopedia Ii - Organic Farming - Productivity
A 22-year farm trial study by Cornell University published on July 13, 2005 concluded that Organic farming produces the same corn and soy...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Geography Of Brazil: Encyclopedia Ii - Geography Of Brazil - Soils And Vegetation
Brazil's tropical soils produce 70 million tons of grain crops per year, but this output is attributed more to their extension than their...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - University Of Adelaide: Encyclopedia Ii - University Of Adelaide - Alumni
Alumni include Dr Andy Thomas, the first Australian in space, Antarctic explorer and geologist Sir Douglas Mawson, nuclear physicist Sir ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Agriculture: Encyclopedia Ii - Agriculture - Crops
Agriculture - World production of major crops in 2004. In millions of metric tons, based on FAO estimates[2]: By crop types Cereals 2,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Agriculture: Encyclopedia Ii - Agriculture - History
Archaeobotanists have traced the selection and cultivation of specific food plant characteristics, such as a semi-tough rachis and larger...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Agriculture: Encyclopedia Ii - Agriculture - History
Archaeobotanists/Paleoethnobotanists have traced the selection and cultivation of specific food plant characteristics, such as a semi-tou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Geography Of Brazil: Encyclopedia Ii - Geography Of Brazil - Size And Location
With its expansive territory, Brazil occupies most of the eastern part of the South American continent and its geographic heartland, as w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - University Of Adelaide: Encyclopedia Ii - University Of Adelaide - Campuses
University of Adelaide - North Terrace. The North Terrace campus is the main campus of the University. It teaches components of all tea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Geography Of Brazil: Encyclopedia Ii - Geography Of Brazil - Geology Geomorphology And Drainage
In contrast to the Andes, which rose to elevations of nearly 7,000 meters in a relatively recent epoch and inverted the Amazon's directio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Organic Farming: Encyclopedia Ii - Organic Farming - Overview
Organic farming excludes the use of synthetic inputs, such as synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, and genetically modified organisms (G...   » Read the article