Not Your Grandpa's Cultivars the New Conservation Releases

Kujawski, Jennifer; Ogle, Dan

doi:10.2979/npj.2005.6.1.49

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“…Managed “natural” ecosystems also benefit from plant breeding. The US Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Natural Resources Conservation Service Plant Materials Centers (http://plant-materials.nrcs.usda.gov/) have a long history of breeding and selecting material for conservation and erosion‐control plantings (Kujawski and Ogle 2005). The USDA Forest Service has programs investigating disease resistance to both natural and introduced diseases and pests, in an effort to maintain productivity and species diversity in the nation's forests.…”

Section: Breeding Plants To Improve the Environmentmentioning

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Plant breeding for harmony between agriculture and the environment

Brummer

Barber

Collier

et al. 2011

Frontiers in Ecol & Environ

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Plant breeding programs primarily focus on improving a crop's environmental adaptability and biotic stress tolerance in order to increase yield. Crop improvements made since the 1950s – coupled with inexpensive agronomic inputs, such as fertilizers, pesticides, and water – have allowed agricultural production to keep pace with human population growth. Plant breeders, particularly those at public institutions, have an interest in reducing agriculture's negative impacts and improving the natural environment to provide or maintain ecosystem services (eg clean soil, water, and air; carbon sequestration), and in creating new agricultural paradigms (eg perennial polycultures). Here, we discuss recent developments in, as well as the goals of, plant breeding, and explain how these may be connected to the specific interests of ecologists and naturalists. Plant breeding can be a powerful tool to bring “harmony” between agriculture and the environment, but partnerships between plant breeders, ecologists, urban planners, and policy makers are needed to make this a reality.

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Section: Breeding Plants To Improve the Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Plant breeding for harmony between agriculture and the environment

Brummer

Barber

Collier

et al. 2011

Frontiers in Ecol & Environ

136

100

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“…Because of differing consumer goals when using native seeds, the NRCS Plant Materials Program adopted release designations that described the level of testing different plant materials have undergone. 14 It was understood that the earlier a species was in its evaluation program when it was released, the greater was the risk assumed by producers and reclamationists in seed production and survival of the material. "Source-identified" germplasm has had essentially no testing and is simply what it states: germplasm from the location where it was collected.…”

Section: How Native Grass Germplasm Is Developed In the Plant Materiamentioning

confidence: 99%