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Participatory Multi-Environmental Trials (MET) identified promising durum wheat landraces in Northern Ethiopia

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Title Participatory Multi-Environmental Trials (MET) identified promising durum wheat landraces in Northern Ethiopia
 
Creator Mengistu, D.K.
Kiros, A.Y.
Mohammed, J.N.
Fadda, Carlo
 
Subject land races
farmers
participation
triticum durum
 
Description Participation of farmers in research process from early stage has been gaining ground in breeding research. Participant farmers can provide very valuable scientific evaluation of genotypes that can be used for effective discrimination of useful varieties easily adopted by similar farmers. Participatory varietal selection (PVS) is a powerful tool in identifying crops varieties with high acceptance probability in marginal environments because participant farmers evaluate the genotypes not only from yield perspective but also from stress tolerance perspective. Here we present a participatory MET conducted in four locations to select durum wheat landraces for larger scale production in the areas. In all four locations, 36 genotypes (31 landraces plus 5 improved varieties) were tested for two cropping seasons and evaluated by both researchers and farmers groups. In each location, a total of 30 farmers (15 female and 15 male) and five breeders critically evaluated the each variety for earliness, spike quality, drought tolerance and overall performance on scale of 1 to 5, traits defined by the farmers themselves. 1 stands for bad and 5 for excellent performance. Researchers have collected data for three phenological traits and seven agronomic traits and analysis was conducted to see preference matching between researcher data and farmers score data.
The results show clearly that farmers are capable to discriminate genotypes reasonably though their discrimination power varies from location to location. The discrimination by breeders was consistent across locations. Very high significant (p
 
Date 2016
2016-12-02T10:26:25Z
2016-12-02T10:26:25Z
 
Type Conference Paper Abstract
 
Identifier Mengistu, D.K.; Kiros, A.Y.; Mohammed, J.N.; Fadda, C. (2016) Participatory Multi-Environmental Trials (MET) identified promising durum wheat landraces in Northern Ethiopia. [Abstract] presented at: Tropentag 2016: Solidarity in a competing world — fair use of resources. Vienna (Austria) Sep 18-21. 1 p.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/78096
 
Language en
 
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