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
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
Mengistu, D.K.
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Kiros, A.
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Mohammed, J.
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Tsehaye, Y.
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Fadda, Carlo
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[Exploitation of diversity within farmers' durum wheat varieties enhanced the chance of selecting productive, stable and adaptable new varieties to the local climatic conditions]
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Exploitation of diversity within farmers' durum wheat varieties enhanced the chance of selecting productive, stable and adaptable new varieties to the local climatic conditions
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
Crop adaptation to climate change requires accelerated crop variety introduction accompanied by recommendations to help
farmers match the best variety with their field contexts. Existing approaches to generate these recommendations lack scalability and predictivity in marginal production environm...
Etten, Jacob van
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Sousa, K. de
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Aguillar, A.
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Barrios, M.
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Coto, A.
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Dell'Acqua, M.
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Fadda, Carlo
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Gebrehawaryat, Y.
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Gevel, J.M.J. van de
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Gupta, A.
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Kiros, A.Y.
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Madriz, B.
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Mathur, P.
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Mengistu, D.K.
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Mercado, L.
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Mohammed, J.N.
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Paliwal, A.
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Pe`, M.E.
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Quirós, C.F.
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Rosas, J.C.
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Sharma, N.
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Singh, S.S.
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Solanki, I.S.
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Steinke, J.
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[Crop variety management for climate adaptation supported by citizen science]
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Crop variety management for climate adaptation supported by citizen science
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)