Patrick Byrne, Meagan Schipanski, Deana Namuth-Covert This eBook provides a virtual field tour at Colorado State University’s Agricultural Research, Development …
Crop Diversity: A Virtual Crop Science Field Tour
Category: Plant Breeding
Sugar Beet
Meagan Schipanski This video describes sugar beet, an important temperate-adapted sugar crop. Resistance to root diseases has been an …
Wild Sugar Beets
Patrick Byrne This video compares cultivated sugar beet to its wild ancestor, and explains the importance of wild relatives as …
Sunflower Hybrids
Patrick Byrne This video explains the production of hybrid cultivars in sunflowers. The male parent produces large amounts of …
Sunflower Domestication
Patrick Byrne Sunflowers are one of the few crops domesticated in what is now the U.S. This video describes …
Grain and Forage Sorghum
Meagan Schipanski This video presents several types of Sorghum bicolor: grain sorghum, forage sorghum, sudangrass, and a sudangrass x …
Millets
Meagan Schipanski Millets encompass several different species of warm-season grasses grown for their small seeds or as a forage …
Popcorn
Megan Schipanski This video describes popcorn, a class of corn that has been selected for its thick seed coat …
Corn Domestication
Patrick Byrne Domestication of corn from its wild ancestor teosinte occurred in Mexico about 8,000 years ago. This video …
Corn Recurrent Selection
Patrick Byrne This video explains and illustrates the plant breeding practice known as recurrent selection, a cyclical process of …