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dc.contributor.authorBelay, G.
dc.contributor.authorTefera, H.
dc.contributor.authorGetachew, A.
dc.contributor.authorAssefa, K.
dc.contributor.authorMetaferia, G.
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-04T11:14:50Z
dc.date.available2019-12-04T11:14:50Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.identifier.citationBelay, G., Tefera, H., Getachew, A., Assefa, K. & Metaferia, G. (2008). Highly client-oriented breeding with farmer participation in the Ethiopian cereal tef [Eragrostis tef (Zucc.) Trotter]. African Journal of Agricultural Research, 3(1), 022-028.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12478/2864
dc.description.abstractThis paper describes a highly client-oriented breeding applied to enhance the development and release of a tef (Eragrostis tef) variety with farmer participation in Ethiopia. The main features include; clear objective, target cross, early-stage researcher selection, multi-location yield trial, farmer on-station selection, judicious selection of few candidate varieties based on farmers' and researchers' selections, farmer managed on-farm trials, and release through the existing formal procedure. In the application of this strategy, tef exemplifies a crop with local importance, a clear market-driven selection criterion (cash crop) and farmers have better judgment of the criterion than researchers. Using farmers' consistent selection of genotypes, in conjunction with the required quantifiable data, breeders were able to release a new tef variety named "Quncho". The new variety was not the highest yielder, but it was higher in grain yield and better in seed-color quality (very white seed-color) than the long-time cultivated variety DZ-01-196 (Magna), which was used as quality check. Given the appropriate degree of client-orientation, the results also show how farmer participation and formal breeding programs complement each other so as to overcome the rather prohibitive variety release procedures based on data from participatory breeding alone.
dc.description.sponsorshipMcKnight Foundation
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectHighly Client-Oriented Breeding
dc.subjectEragrostis Tef
dc.subjectParticipatory Breeding
dc.subjectTef Variety
dc.titleHighly clientoriented breeding with farmer participation in the Ethiopian cereal tef (Eragrostis tef (Zucc.) Trotter)
dc.typeJournal Article
dc.description.versionPeer Review
cg.contributor.affiliationLeibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Institute of Tropical Agriculture
cg.contributor.affiliationEthiopian Institute of Agricultural Research
cg.coverage.regionAsia
cg.coverage.regionEast Asia
cg.coverage.countryEthiopia
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country institute
cg.iitasubjectPlant Breeding
cg.iitasubjectGenetic Improvement
cg.iitasubjectMarkets
cg.iitasubjectGrain Legumes
cg.accessibilitystatusOpen Access
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