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Data Management in Multi-disciplinary African RTB Crop Breeding Programs
Quality phenotype and genotype data are important for the success of a breeding program. Like most programs, African breeding programs generate large...
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“Whose demand?” The co-construction of markets, demand and gender in development-oriented crop breeding
Advancing women’s empowerment and gender equality in agriculture is a recognised development goal, also within crop breeding. Increasingly, breeding...
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Domestication, crop breeding, and genetic modification are fundamentally different processes: implications for seed sovereignty and agrobiodiversity
Genetic modification (GM) of crop plants is frequently described by its proponents as a continuation of the ancient process of domestication. While...
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Cultivating Responsible Plant Breeding Strategies: Conceptual and Normative Commitments in Data-Intensive Agriculture
This chapter argues for the importance of considering conceptual and normative commitments when addressing questions of responsible practice in...
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Managing Data in Breeding, Selection and in Practice: A Hundred Year Problem That Requires a Rapid Solution
Following the rediscovery of Mendelian genetics, food supply pressures and the rapid expansion of crop varieties with defined performance...
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Participatory plant breeding and social change in the Midwestern United States: perspectives from the Seed to Kitchen Collaborative
There is a strong need to connect agricultural research to social movements and community-based food system reform efforts. Participatory research...
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Communities of Practice in Crop Diversity Management: From Data to Collaborative Governance
Establishing linkage among data of diverse domains (e.g. biological, environmental, socio-economical, and geographical) is critical to address...
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Towards quantifying relational values: crop diversity and the relational and instrumental values of seed growers in Vermont
The conceptual promise of relational values, theorized as the principles and virtues of human relationships (with other humans and nature), to...
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From Farm to FAIR: The Trials of Linking and Sharing Wheat Research Data
This paper describes progress towards an integrated data framework that supports the sharing of data from the Designing Future Wheat (DFW) strategic...
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Crop** synonymy: varietal standardization in the United States, 1900–1970
This article examines crop varietal standardization in the United States. Numerous committees formed in the early twentieth century to address the...
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Enhancing farmers’ agency in the global crop commons through use of biocultural community protocols
Crop genetic resources constitute a ‘new’ global commons, characterized by multiple layers of activities of farmers, genebanks, public and private...
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Genebanking plant genetic resources in the postgenomic era
Genebanking, the process of preserving genetic resources, is a central practice in the modern management of crop genetics, especially for the species...
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Regionally divergent roles of the South Korean state in adopting improved crop varieties and commercializing agriculture (1960–1980): a case study of areas in Jeju and Jeollanamdo
The South Korean government’s historical efforts to introduce improved crop varieties have been ambiguously successful. State-bred rice varieties...
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An Ecological Context
Literary formalism, incorporating structuralist ideas developed by the Prague Linguistics Circle, proposes that literature is not the effect of an...
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Innovation and the commons: lessons from the governance of genetic resources in potato breeding
This article explores the relation between innovation and resources that are governed as commons by looking at the governance of potato genetic...
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Transforming a traditional commons-based seed system through collaborative networks of farmer seed-cooperatives and public breeding programs: the case of sorghum in Mali
Malian farmers’ traditional system for managing seed of sorghum, an indigenous crop of vital importance for food security and survival, can be...
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GMOs and Sustainable Agriculture
The introduction of genetically engineered crops in agriculture in the mid-1990s has been heralded as the advent of the Second Green Revolution....
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Plant Science Data Integration, from Building Community Standards to Defining a Consistent Data Lifecycle
FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data principles for plant research build upon experience from other life science domains such as...
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Ethical Issues in Genetically Modified Foods: From Transgenesis to CRISPR-Cas9 Genome Editing Technology
Traditional ethical quandaries related to GM foods have been addressed profusely throughout the years. Still, some concerns remain regarding...
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Data, Duplication, and Decentralisation: Gene Bank Management in the 1980s and 1990s
In the 1970s, the number of accessions held in national and international seed and gene banks increased steadily. This growth, initially a source of...