Laura Marek, Forrest Douglass, Candice Gardner Laura Marek is the oilseeds curator at the USDA North Central Regional Plant Introduction …
Oilseed Curator Laura Marek
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Plant Breeding
Patrick Byrne, Meagan Schipanski, Deana Namuth-Covert This chapter focuses on three concepts that have been important in plant breeding: …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Colorado Field Crop Tour
Pat Byrne, Meagan Schipanski Colorado State University’s Agricultural Research, Development and Education Center (ARDEC) is located 4 miles north …
Case Study: Sunflower Domestication and Breeding
Gayle Volk and Patrick Byrne The purpose of this chapter is to explain the history of sunflower domestication and …