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Developing new varieties of maize, beans, and cereals that have agronomic or other traits that are valued by both agricultural producers and end users has been a task that has been performed for millenniums. Farming has relied on seeds bred for higher yield and flavorful crops.

If you are interested in setting up a plant breeding business or organization, this is a guide to help you get started. It should help you get started, with the right equipment, setting up a workspace, techniques for organising your seeds and documenting progress.

Company Goals Outline Setting up a work space Working with Cereals Working with Beans Working with Maize Working with Rice Using plant breeding software Experimenting Equipment

[edit] See Also

• Howto write a CIMMYT maize pedigree
• wikipedia:Plant_breeding
• wikipedia:Maize
• wikipedia:Beans
• wikipedia:Barley
• wikipedia:Triticale

[edit] References

• Wikipedia: Plant Breeding
• Global Partnership Initiative for Plant Breeding Capacity Building (GIPB)[1]
• Open Plant Breeding Foundation [2]
• Luther Burbank: his methods and discoveries and their practical application[3]

This is a classic. The foreword could be quoted for this wiki as it echoes the intentions of this wiki.

• Principles of Plant Genetics and Breeding, by George Acquaah,Blackwell Publishing Ltd.(2007)

Pg. 431 Materials, equipment and machinery for field evaluation of genotypes

Pg. 285 Common Plant Breeding Notations

Pg. 426 MSTAT BR series

• New Maize and Wheat Gene Bank Operations Manual [4]

• "DISCOVERING" by Robert Scott Root-Bernstein, , ISBN: 0735100071

See: IMP's Manual of Discovering

• Sparks of Genius: The Thirteen Thinking Tools of the World's Most Creative People by Robert S. Root-Bernstein, Michele M. Root-Bernstein

• Manjit S. Kang, "Handbook of Formulas and Software for Plant Geneticists and Breeders", (2003), Food Products Press and The Haworth Press Inc.

ISBN: 1-56022-948-9 (hard)

ISBN: 1-56022-949-7 (soft)

Library of Congress: QK981.5 .H36 2003

• Plant biotechnology in Canada [5]

• Futures in Biotech with Marc Pelletier [6]

• Cultivating communities of practice: A guide to managing knowledge

Etienne Wenger, Richard McDermott, William Snyder

Harvard Business School Press, 2002

Communities of practice: a brief introduction by Etienne Wenger [7]

• Sierhuis, M. and W. J. Clancey (2002). "Modeling and Simulating Work Practice: A human-centered method for work systems design." IEEE Intelligent Systems Volume 17(5)(Special Issue on Human-Centered Computing).

• The Brahms MultiAgent Simulation Environment [8]

• Antipatterns