Tada Vargas, Emma Balunek, Katheryn Chen, Patrick Byrne The term ‘Three Sisters’ refers to corn (Zea mays), beans (Phaseolus vulgaris), …
Three Sisters: Companion Planting of North American Indigenous Peoples
Category: Landraces & Heirloom Cultivars
Three Sisters
Patrick Byrne, Meagan Schipanski, Deana Namuth-Covert This chapter provides an overview of Three Sisters agriculture, the Indigenous American tradition …
Plant Breeding
Patrick Byrne, Meagan Schipanski, Deana Namuth-Covert This chapter focuses on three concepts that have been important in plant breeding: …
Crop Domestication
Patrick Byrne, Meagan Schipanski, Deana Namuth-Covert This chapter provides an overview the domestication of wild species into crop plants. …
Crop Diversity: A Virtual Crop Science Field Tour
Patrick Byrne, Meagan Schipanski, Deana Namuth-Covert This eBook provides a virtual field tour at Colorado State University’s Agricultural Research, Development …
Corn Landraces
Patrick Byrne Landraces are traditional varieties selected by farmers for adaptation to local conditions and food preferences. These varieties …
Crop Wild Relatives and their Use in Plant Breeding
Gayle Volk and Patrick Byrne The purpose of this chapter is to demonstrate that food crops do not necessarily originate …
The Key To Global Food Security – English
Gayle Volk This one page pdf file uses graphics and short text to illustrate the primary functions of a plant …
The Key To Global Food Security – Chinese
Gayle Volk This one page pdf file uses graphics and short text to illustrate the primary functions of a plant …
The Key To Global Food Security – French
Gayle Volk This one page pdf file uses graphics and short text to illustrate the primary functions of a plant …