Africa hosts approximately 33 million smallholder farms, which account for 80% of the continent's farming system. Subsistence farming systems face highly variable climatic conditions that threaten locally-adapted, low-input agriculture. For the near future, they are among the most seriously affec...
Mancini, C.
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Kidane, Y.G.
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Mengistu, D.K.
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Pe, M.E.
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Fadda, Carlo
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Dell'Acqua, M.
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[Which wheat for smallholder Ethiopian farmers? Joining traditional knowledge with metric phenotypes]
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Which wheat for smallholder Ethiopian farmers? Joining traditional knowledge with metric phenotypes
The Ethiopian plateau hosts thousands of durum wheat (Triticum turgidum subsp. durum) farmer varieties (FV) with high adaptability and breeding potential. To harness their unique allelic diversity, we produced a large nested association mapping (NAM) population intercrossing fifty Ethiopian FVs w...
Kidane, Y.G.
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Gesesse, C.A.
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Hailemariam, B.N.
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Desta, E.A.
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Mengistu, D.K.
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Fadda, Carlo
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Pe, M.E.
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Dell'Acqua, M.
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[A large nested association mapping population for breeding and quantitative trait locus mapping in Ethiopian durum wheat]
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A large nested association mapping population for breeding and quantitative trait locus mapping in Ethiopian durum wheat
Ethiopia is one of the most populous countries in Africa, with more than 96 million inhabitants, 80% of whom are engaged in small-scale agriculture, and often subsistence farming. We involved 60 smallholder farmers in two locations in Ethiopia to evaluate traits of their interest in 400 wheat acc...
Mancini, C.
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Kidane, Y.G.
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Mengistu, D.K.
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Pe, M.E.
,
Fadda, Carlo
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Dell'Acqua, Martin
,
[Which wheat for smallholder Ethiopian farmers? Joining traditional knowledge with metric phenotypes]
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Which wheat for smallholder Ethiopian farmers? Joining traditional knowledge with metric phenotypes
Mengistu, D.K.
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Kidane, Y.G.
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Catellani, M.
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Frascaroli, E.
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Fadda, Carlo
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Pe, M.E.
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Dell'Acqua, M.
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[High-density molecular characterisation and association mapping in Ethiopian durum wheat landraces reveals high diversity and potential for wheat breeding]
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High-density molecular characterisation and association mapping in Ethiopian durum wheat landraces reveals high diversity and potential for wheat breeding
Smallholder farming communities face highly variable climatic conditions that threaten locally adapted, low-input agriculture. The benefits of modern crop breeding may fail to reach their fields when broadly adapted genetic materials do not address local requirements. To date, participatory metho...
Mancini, C.
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Mengistu, D.K.
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Pè, M.E.
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Fadda, Carlo
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Dell'Acqua, M.
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Melfa and Workaye Farmer Community
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Kidane, Y.G.
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[Joining smallholder farmers’ traditional knowledge with metric traits to select better varieties of Ethiopian wheat]
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Joining smallholder farmers’ traditional knowledge with metric traits to select better varieties of Ethiopian wheat
Durum wheat (Triticum turgidum subsp. durum) improvement and adaptation to emerging environmental and climatic threats is hampered by the limited amount of allelic variation included in its elite breeding pool. It is therefore a priority to identify adaptive traits by exploring germplasm from dif...
Mengistu, D.K.
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Kidane, Y.G.
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Catellani, M.
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Frascaroli, E.
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Fadda, Carlo
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Pe, M.E.
,
Dell'Acqua, Martin
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[High-density molecular characterisation and association mapping in Ethiopian durum wheat landraces reveals high diversity and potential for wheat breeding]
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High-density molecular characterisation and association mapping in Ethiopian durum wheat landraces reveals high diversity and potential for wheat breeding
Crop varieties play an important role in climate adaptation, allowing farmers to adjust the varieties they use to suit new climate conditions. Several barriers stand in the way of this approach. First, variety recommendations are often based on data from trials done at research stations, which do...
Fadda, Carlo
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Etten, Jacob van
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[Generating farm-validated variety recommendations for climate adaptation]
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Generating farm-validated variety recommendations for climate adaptation