Liveseed
LiveseedPlease find below a list of all practice abstracts produced in the framework of our project, divided by topic of interest. If you wish to download all practice abstracts with just one move, this compressed version is what you are looking for.
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Organic Seed Production, Seed Cleaning, processing and storage
Creating dynamic and diverse populations- Managing on farm populations
- Seed treatments allowed in organic farming in certain countries (Input list)
- Co-design of locally adapted wheat variety mixtures
- Proper seed storage
- Biodynamic alternatives to CMS hybrids
- How to become an organic seed grower in Latvia
Practice abstract also available in the following language: LATVIAN - How to improve organic seed production for carrots and cauliflower
- How to evaluate weed competitiveness in cereals
- Pre-sprouting of potato seed tubers
Practice abstract also available in the following language: LATVIAN - How to produce organic heterogeneous material of sweet corn
- How to produce seed of heterogeneous populations of inbred cereals
Seed quality and health under organic management
- Managing common bunt in wheat seed lots
Practice abstract also available in the following language: FRENCH - How to minimise damage by aphids in organic faba bean production
- Seed health in potatoes
- Seed vigour keep it high
- Calorespirometry – A phenotyping tool to assess pea germination efficiency under different temperatures
- Use of Near Infrared Spectroscopy (FT-NIR) to assess seed viability and varietal discrimination – Pisum sativum as a case study
- Application of acetic acid as a seed treatment in organic cereal seed
- Treating wheat seed with vinegar against common bunt
- Susceptibility of winter wheat cultivars to various isolates of common bunt (Tilletia caries)
Organic Plant Breeding and variety trials
- How to assess weed competitiveness in organic cultivar trials with wheat
- How to set up a simplified on-farm cultivar trial to assess broccoli
- How to set up an on-farm cultivar trial to score for leaf blight in carrots
- How to identify potato cultivars which are resistant to late blight
- Guidelines for on-farm variety testing
- Towards ecological and societal resilience through systems-based plant breeding
- How to breed an organic forage crop variety
- Co-design and assessment of locally adapted wheat variety mixtures
- Preservation of traditional varieties in the region of Valencia
- Heterogeneous spring barley populations in Latvia
- Special characters of varieties for organic farming in wheat
- Organic wheat variety testing by a network of farmers
- How to create diversified variety mixtures thanks based on gene bank resources
- Comparison of two breeding strategies for soft wheat populations
- Influence of location and human selection on two soft wheat populations
- Usability of results from conventional trials for organic rye cultivation
- Usability of results from conventional trials for organic triticale cultivation
- How to increase the efficiency of cultivar choice in organic farming
- On-farm breeding for wheat mixtures
Economics and Regulation of organic seeds (including contracting, certification and market issues)
- How to access organic seeds in Hungary
- Cooperatives a model to improve organic seed production
- The cell fusion-free vegetable list helps organic farmers to find suitable cultivars
- How to improve organic seed availability in Bulagria
Practice abstract also available in the following language: BULGARIAN - Organic seed from community seed banks
- The obligation to use organic seed – farmers awareness
Practice abstract also available in the following language: DUTCH - The difference between certified organic seed and “untreated” conventional seed
- Values and benefits of organic seeds and vegetative propagating material
- Legal limitations for the use of organic and new genetically diverse seeds in Spain
- How to improve organic cereal seed availability in Hungary
- Incentives to use organic seeds set up by the supermarkets
- Greening urban gardens with local vegetable varieties
- Expert evaluation of varieties in the organic seed database
- Italian Organic Seed Database
- Farm saved seed: what rules?
- Conservation varieties in Italy
- Marketing of heterogeneous material: EU experiences
- Marketing a genetically diverse wheat: YQ in the UK
- How to become a producer of certified organic seed in Romania
- Introduction of new varieties to the market
- How to set up a community seed bank
- Tools to identify heterogeneous cultivars 1: constitution
- Tools to identify heterogeneous cultivars 2: traceability
- Tools to identify heterogeneous cultivars 3: description
- Farmers’ perspectives on the use of organic seed in European organic agriculture
- Organic seed for forage crops: recommendations for a level playing field
