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Post by oxbowfarm on Feb 9, 2014 9:47:16 GMT -5
Just found out about this source of free plant breeding books by Raoul A RobinsonHaven't plowed through them all but I just gulped down the Potato Breeding Manual. Completely mind-blowing, has anyone else ever heard about grafting potato scions onto tomato rootstock to promote flowering? He's also got awesome things to say about breeding for/selecting for horizontal resistance to pathogens. Can't wait to read Return to Resistance. This is why I love the internet. |
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Post by ferdzy on Feb 9, 2014 18:03:23 GMT -5
Amazing! Thank you.
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Post by davida on Feb 9, 2014 22:15:23 GMT -5
Just found out about this source of free plant breeding books by Raoul A RobinsonHaven't plowed through them all but I just gulped down the Potato Breeding Manual. Completely mind-blowing, has anyone else ever heard about grafting potato scions onto tomato rootstock to promote flowering? He's also got awesome things to say about breeding for/selecting for horizontal resistance to pathogens. Can't wait to read Return to Resistance. This is why I love the internet. And this is why I enjoy HG supplied by the internet. Great find. Thanks for sharing. Reading Potato Breeding Manuaul now. |
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Post by oxbowfarm on Feb 10, 2014 8:30:15 GMT -5
So I've started in on Return to ResistanceThis book is amazing. Its clarifying all kinds of things I've never fully put together before. A masterful critique of modern plant breeding, but most critiques are just criticism with no alternative proposals. This book is all about a different paradigm for crop breeding. A quote: " There can be little doubt that, for the cultivation process, crop scientists
should think agriculturally, in terms of genetic uniformity, and genetic
inflexibility. But, for the breeding process, crop scientists should perhaps think
ecologically, in terms of populations, quantitative genetics, genetic diversity,
genetic flexibility, and horizontal resistance." chapter 8 pg 89.He's rocking my world. |
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Feb 10, 2014 12:44:09 GMT -5
I first read "Return to Resistance" about 5 years ago. About the same time I found Astronomy Domine sweet corn and landrace gardening. Between the two of them it turned my world upside down. |
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Post by blackox on Feb 10, 2014 13:02:26 GMT -5
Thanks for the resource, this sound great! I'll start reading when I find the time.
Hoping to have my mind blown...
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Post by nathanp on Feb 10, 2014 20:37:01 GMT -5
I am halfway through the Potato Breeding Manual. It confirms my thinking on a lot of what is wrong with modern agriculture. He clearly has thought through this far more than I.
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Post by shoshannah on Oct 18, 2016 15:11:04 GMT -5
Found the reference from another forum. I'm about halfway through "Return to Resistance". Free download but I still prefer holding the book in my hand.
Amazon had one for .01 +3.99 shipping so I ordered it. Really good book written in plain English. Immensely improved my understanding of landrace and horizontal resistance.
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Post by nicollas on Oct 23, 2016 8:15:47 GMT -5
I've found his books hard to read
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