Breeding and Variety Selection of Field Crops for Organic Systems
- Resources
- Soils and Fertility
- Horticulture
- Field Crops
- Crop Rotation
- Pest Management
- Season Extension
- Seed Production and Plant Breeding
- Livestock
- Ecology and Environment
- Nutrition, Safety and Health of Organic Foods
- Post-harvest Handling, Storage and Processing
- Social Science
- Marketing and Economics
- Transition to Organic
- Canadian Organic Research Priorities
Practical Resources
- A Certified Organic Winter Nursery for Corn Breeding Recorded Webinar
- eOrganic. 2014
- Baking evaluation, sensory analysis, and nutritional characteristics of modern, heritage, and ancient wheat varieties - Recorded webinar
- eOrganic. 2015
- Breeding Spring Wheat for Organic Agriculture [PDF - 149 kB]
- OACC. 2009
- OACC. 2009
- Organic Seed Processing: Threshing, Cleaning and Storage
- eOrganic. 2014
- Participatory Plant Breeding Toolkit
- Organic Seed Alliance. 2012
Scientific Results
- Black medic (Medicago lupulina) germplasm screening for use as a self-regenerating cover crop on the Canadian Prairies
- Canadian Journal of Plant Science (2007) 87: 873–878
- Breeding maize for traditional and organic agriculture
- Euphytica (2015) 205: 219-230
- Collaborative Plant Breeding for Organic Agricultural Systems in Developed Countries
- Sustainability (2011) 3: 1206-1233
- Comparison of bread wheat varieties with different breeding origin under organic and low input management
- Euphytica (2014) 199: 69-80
- Comparison of interconnections between barley breeding material traits under organic and conventional growing conditions
- Organic Eprints. 2011
- Comparison of quality parameters of wheat varieties with different breeding origin under organic and low-input conventional conditions
- Journal of Cereal Science (2016) 69: 297-305
- Comparison of Selection Efficiency for Spring Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) under Organic and Conventional Farming Conditions
- Crop Science (2017) 57: 626-636
- Crop Breeding for Low Input Agriculture: A Sustainable Response to Feed a Growing World Population
- Sustainability (2011) 3: 1742-1772
- Crop transformation and the challenge to increase yield potential
- Trends in Plant Science (2004) 9: 70-75
- Differences in grain/straw ratio, protein content and yield in landraces and modern varieties of different wheat species under organic farming
- Euphytica (2014) 199: 31-40
- Evaluation of winter wheat breeding lines for traits related to nitrogen use under organic management
- Organic Agriculture (2011) 1: 65-80
- Evaluation of Wheat Cultivars to Test Indirect Selection or Organic Conditions
- Agronomy Journal (2014) 106: 441-451
- Evidence of varietal adaptation to organic farming systems
- Field Crops Research (2007) 102: 172-177
- Evolutionary breeding for sustainable agriculture: Selection and multi-environmental evaluation of barley populations and lines
- Field Crops Research (2017) 204: 76-88
- Experimental data confirm the importance of appropriate selection environments for breeding maize adapted to organic farming systems
- Organic Eprints. 2012
- Healthy food from organic wheat: choice of genotypes for production and breeding
- Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture (2012) 92: 2826-2832
- Hybrid Varieties for Organic Cereals? Prospects and acceptance of hybrid breeding for organic production
- Organic Eprints. 2006
- Improving baking quality, nutritional value and safety of organic winter wheat
- Organic Eprints. 2014
- Is low-input management system a good selection environment to screen winter wheat genotypes adapted to organic farming?
- Euphytica (2014) 199: 41-56
- Mapping QTL, Selection Differentials, and the Effect of Rht-B1 under Organic and Conventionally Managed Systems in the Attila × CDC Go Spring Wheat Mapping Population
- Crop Science (2015) 55: 1129-1142
- Mapping QTLs Controlling Agronomic Traits in the ‘Attila’ × ‘CDC Go’ Spring Wheat Population under Organic Management using 90K SNP Array
- Crop Science (2017) 57: 365-377
- Molecular markers to exploit genotype-environment interactions of relevance in organic growing systems
- Euphytica (2008) 163: 523-531
- Morphological diversity in a barley composite cross-derived population evolved under low-input conditions and its relationship with molecular diversity: indications for breeding
- The Journal of Agricultural Science (2016) 154: 943-959
- The need to breed crop varieties suitable for organic farming, using wheat, tomato and broccoli as examples: A review
- Organic Eprints. 2011
- Nutrient management in organic farming and consequences for direct and indirect selection strategies
- Organic Eprints. 2013
- Organic selection may improve yield efficiency in spring wheat: A preliminary analysis
- Canadian Journal of Plant Science (2017) 97: 298-307
- Perspectives to breed for improved baking quality wheat varieties adapted to organic growing conditions
- Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture (2012) 92: 207-215
- Realized gains from selection for spring wheat grain yield are different in conventional and organically managed systems
- Euphytica (2011) 177: 253-266
- Recurrent Selection and Participatory Plant Breeding for Improvement of Two Organic Open-Pollinated Sweet Corn (Zea mays L.) Populations
- Sustainability (2015) 7: 5139-5152
- Refining breeding methods for organic and low-input agriculture: Analysis of an international winter wheat ring test
- Euphytica (2014) 199: 81-95
- Relative performance of Canadian spring wheat cultivars under organic and conventional field conditions
- Euphytica (2014) 196: 13-24
- A review of the potential for competitive cereal cultivars as a tool in integrated weed management
- Weed Research (2015) 55: 239-248
- The role of molecular markers and marker assisted selection in breeding for organic agriculture
- Euphytica (2010) 175: 51-64
- Should spring wheat breeding for organically managed systems be conducted on organically managed land?
- Euphytica (2009) 169: 239-252
- Structuring an Efficient Organic Wheat Breeding Program
- Sustainability (2011) 3: 1190-1205
- Sustainability (2011) 3: 1190-1205