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.
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Fadda, Carlo
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Dell'Acqua, Martin
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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
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
Septoria tritici blotch (STB) is a devastating fungal disease affecting durum and bread wheat cultivation worldwide. The identification, development, and employment of resistant wheat genetic material is the key to overcoming costs and limitations of fungicide treatments. The search for resistanc...
Kidane, Y.G.
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Hailemariam, B.N.
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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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[Genome-wide association study of Septoria tritici Blotch resistance in Ethiopian durum wheat landraces]
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Genome-wide association study of Septoria tritici Blotch resistance in Ethiopian durum wheat landraces
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
Smallholder agriculture involves millions of farmers worldwide. A methodical utilization of their traditional knowledge in modern breeding efforts may help the production of locally adapted varieties better addressing their needs.
In this study, a combination of participatory approaches, genomi...
Kidane, Y.G.
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Mancini, C.
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Mengistu, D.K.
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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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[Genome wide association study to identify the genetic base of smallholder farmer preferences of Durum wheat traits]
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Genome wide association study to identify the genetic base of smallholder farmer preferences of Durum wheat traits
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.
,
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, 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
The valorization of genetic diversities of major crops like wheat may help substantially to feed the world Population. Durum heat genotypes consisting of 265 farmers’ varieties (FVs), which have been cultivated for many centuries in Ethiopia, as well as 24 improved varieties (IMVs) have been rece...
Mengistu, D.
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Kidane, Y.G.
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Fadda, Carlo
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Pe, M.E.
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[Genetic diversity in Ethiopian Durum wheat ( Triticum turgidum var durum ) inferred from phenotypic variations]
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Genetic diversity in Ethiopian Durum wheat ( Triticum turgidum var durum ) inferred from phenotypic variations
Rapid climatic and socio-economic changes challenge current agricultural R&D capacity. The necessary quantum leap in knowledge generation should build on the innovation capacity of farmers themselves. A novel citizen science methodology, triadic comparisons of technologies or tricot, was implemen...
Etten, Jacob van
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Beza, E.
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Calderer, L.
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Duijvebdijk, K. van
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Fadda, Carlo
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Fantahun, B.
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Kidane, Y.G.
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Gevel, J.M.J. van de
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Gupta, A.
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Mengistu, D.K.
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Kiambi, D.
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Mathur, P.N.
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Mercado, L.
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Mittra, S.
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Mollel, M.J.
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Rosas, J.C.
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Steinke, J.
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Suchini, J.G.
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Zimmerer, Karl S.
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[First experiences with a novel farmer citizen science approach: crowdsourcing participatory variety selection through on-farm triadic comparisons of technologies (TRICOT)]
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First experiences with a novel farmer citizen science approach: crowdsourcing participatory variety selection through on-farm triadic comparisons of technologies (TRICOT)