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Rempelos, L., Wang, J., Sufar, E.K., Almuayrifi, M.S.B., Knutt, D., Leifert, H., Leifert, A., Wilkinson, A., Shotton, P., Hasanaliyeva, G. 
ORCID: 0000-0002-8527-9949, Bilsborrow, P., Wilcockson, S., Volakakis, N., Markellou, E., Zhao, B., Jones, S., Iversen, P.O. and Leifert, C.,
2023.
Breeding bread-making wheat varieties for organic farming systems: the need to target productivity, robustness, resource use efficiency and grain quality traits.
Foods, 12 (6): 1209.
ISSN 2304-8158
Abstract
Agronomic protocols (rotation, tillage, fertilization and crop protection) commonly used in organic and conventional crop production differ significantly and there is evidence that modern varieties developed for conventional high-input farming systems do not have the combination of traits required for optimum performance in organic farming systems. Specifically, there is evidence that prohibition on the use of water-soluble, mineral N, P and K fertilizers and synthetic pesticide inputs in organic farming results in a need to revise both breeding and selection protocols. For organic production systems, the focus needs to be on the following: (i) traits prioritized by organic farmers such as high nutrient use efficiency from organic fertilizer inputs, competitiveness against weeds, and pest and disease resistance, (ii) processing quality parameters defined by millers and bakers and (iii) nutritional quality parameters demanded by organic consumers. In this article, we review evidence from variety trials and factorial field experiments that (i) studied to what extent there is a need for organic farming focused breeding programs, (ii) investigated which traits/trait combinations should be targeted in these breeding programs and/or (iii) compared the performance of modern varieties developed for the conventional sector with traditional/older varieties favored by organic farmers and/or new varieties developed in organic farming focused breeding programs. Our review focuses on wheat because there have been organic and/or low-input farming focused wheat breeding programs for more than 20 years in Europe, which has allowed the performance of varieties/genotypes from organic/low-input and conventional farming focused breeding programs to be compared.
| Item Type: | Journal article | ||||||
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| Publication Title: | Foods | ||||||
| Creators: | Rempelos, L., Wang, J., Sufar, E.K., Almuayrifi, M.S.B., Knutt, D., Leifert, H., Leifert, A., Wilkinson, A., Shotton, P., Hasanaliyeva, G., Bilsborrow, P., Wilcockson, S., Volakakis, N., Markellou, E., Zhao, B., Jones, S., Iversen, P.O. and Leifert, C. | ||||||
| Publisher: | MDPI | ||||||
| Date: | 13 March 2023 | ||||||
| Volume: | 12 | ||||||
| Number: | 6 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 2304-8158 | ||||||
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| Rights: | This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). | ||||||
| Divisions: | Schools > School of Animal, Rural and Environmental Sciences | ||||||
| Record created by: | Jonathan Gallacher | ||||||
| Date Added: | 19 Feb 2024 09:34 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 19 Feb 2024 09:34 | ||||||
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/50875 |
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