Patrick Byrne, Meagan Schipanski, Deana Namuth-Covert This chapter focuses on three concepts that have been important in plant breeding: …
Plant Breeding
Category: Plant Breeding
Other Dicot Crops
Patrick Byrne, Meagan Schipanski, Deana Namuth-Covert This chapter provides an overview for a sample of agriculturally important dicots including …
Legumes and Legume Nitrogen Fixation
Patrick Byrne, Meagan Schipanski, Deana Namuth-Covert This chapter reviews a variety of legumes including soybeans, lentils, chickpeas, cowpeas, lima …
Warm Season Grass Crops
Patrick Byrne, Meagan Schipanski, Deana Namuth-Covert This chapter examines some of the major warm season grass crops including dent …
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 …
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 …