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Organic Seed Production, Seed Cleaning, processing and storage
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- Creating dynamic and diverse populations
- Managing on-farm populations
- Seed treatments allowed in organic farming in certain countries (Input list)
- Co-design of locally adapted wheat variety mixtures
- Proper seed storage
Practice abstract also available in the following language: FRENCH - Biodynamic alternatives to CMS hybrids
- How to become an organic seed grower in Latvia
Practice abstract also available in the following language: LATVIAN - How to improve organic seed production for carrots and cauliflower
- How to evaluate weed competitiveness in cereals
- Pre-sprouting of potato seed tubers
Practice abstract also available in the following language: LATVIAN - How to produce organic heterogeneous material of sweet corn
- How to produce seed of heterogeneous populations of inbred cereals
Seed quality and health under organic management
- Managing common bunt in wheat seed lots
Practice abstract also available in the following language: FRENCH - How to minimise damage by aphids in organic faba bean production
- Seed health in potatoes
- Seed vigour keep it high
Practice abstract also available in the following language: FRENCH - Calorespirometry – A phenotyping tool to assess pea germination efficiency under different temperatures
- Use of Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (FT-NIR) to assess seed viability and varietal discrimination – Pisum sativum as a case study
- Application of acetic acid as a seed treatment in organic cereal seed
- Treating wheat seed with vinegar against common bunt
Practice abstract also available in the following language: FRENCH - Susceptibility of winter wheat cultivars to various isolates of common bunt (Tilletia caries)
Organic Plant Breeding and variety trials
- How to assess weed competitiveness in organic cultivar trials with wheat
- How to set up a simplified on-farm cultivar trial to assess broccoli
- How to set up an on-farm cultivar trial to score for leaf blight in carrots
- How to identify potato cultivars that are resistant to late blight
- Guidelines for on-farm variety testing
- Towards ecological and societal resilience through systems-based plant breeding
- How to breed an organic forage crop variety
- Co-design and assessment of locally adapted wheat variety mixtures
- Preservation of traditional varieties in the region of Valencia
- Heterogeneous spring barley populations in Latvia
- Special characters of varieties for organic farming in wheat
- Organic wheat variety testing by a network of farmers
- How to create diversified variety mixtures thanks based on gene bank resources
- Comparison of two breeding strategies for soft wheat populations
- Influence of location and human selection on two soft wheat populations
- Usability of results from conventional trials for organic rye cultivation
- Usability of results from conventional trials for organic triticale cultivation
- How to increase the efficiency of cultivar choice in organic farming
- On-farm breeding for wheat mixtures
Economics and Regulation of organic seeds (including contracting, certification and market issues)
- How to access organic seeds in Hungary
- Cooperatives a model to improve organic seed production
- The cell fusion-free vegetable list helps organic farmers to find suitable cultivars
- How to improve organic seed availability in Bulgaria
Practice abstract also available in the following language: BULGARIAN - Organic seed from community seed banks
- The obligation to use organic seed – farmers awareness
Practice abstract also available in the following language: DUTCH - The difference between certified organic seed and “untreated” conventional seed
- Values and benefits of organic seeds and vegetative propagating material
- Legal limitations for the use of organic and new genetically diverse seeds in Spain
- How to improve organic cereal seed availability in Hungary
- Incentives to use organic seeds set up by the supermarkets
- Greening urban gardens with local vegetable varieties
- Expert evaluation of varieties in the organic seed database
- Italian Organic Seed Database
- Farm saved seed: what rules?
- Conservation varieties in Italy
- Marketing of heterogeneous material: EU experiences
- Marketing a genetically diverse wheat: YQ in the UK
- How to become a producer of certified organic seed in Romania
- Introduction of new varieties to the market
- How to set up a community seed bank
- Tools to identify heterogeneous cultivars 1: constitution
- Tools to identify heterogeneous cultivars 2: traceability
- Tools to identify heterogeneous cultivars 3: description
- Farmers’ perspectives on the use of organic seed in European organic agriculture
- Organic seed for forage crops: recommendations for a level playing field