Agronomic Evaluation of Bread Wheat Varieties from Participatory Breeding: A Combination of Performance and Robustness

Isabelle Goldringer, Gaëlle van Frank, Caroline Bouvier d’Yvoire, Emma Forst, Nathalie Galic, Maxime Garnault, Jonathan Locqueville, Sophie Pin, Julien Bailly, Raphael Baltassat, Jean-François Berthellot, François Caizergues, Christian Dalmasso, Patrick de Kochko, Jean-Sébastien Gascuel, Alexandre Hyacinthe, Julien Lacanette, Florent Mercier, Hélène Montaz, Bernard Ronot and Pierre Rivière
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Isabelle Goldringer: GQE–Le Moulon, INRAE, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Gaëlle van Frank: GQE–Le Moulon, INRAE, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Caroline Bouvier d’Yvoire: GQE–Le Moulon, INRAE, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Emma Forst: GQE–Le Moulon, INRAE, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Nathalie Galic: GQE–Le Moulon, INRAE, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Maxime Garnault: GQE–Le Moulon, INRAE, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Jonathan Locqueville: GQE–Le Moulon, INRAE, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Sophie Pin: GQE–Le Moulon, INRAE, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Julien Bailly: Réseau Semences Paysannes, 3 avenue de la gare, 47190 Aiguillon, France
Raphael Baltassat: Réseau Semences Paysannes, 3 avenue de la gare, 47190 Aiguillon, France
Jean-François Berthellot: Réseau Semences Paysannes, 3 avenue de la gare, 47190 Aiguillon, France
François Caizergues: Réseau Semences Paysannes, 3 avenue de la gare, 47190 Aiguillon, France
Christian Dalmasso: Réseau Semences Paysannes, 3 avenue de la gare, 47190 Aiguillon, France
Patrick de Kochko: Réseau Semences Paysannes, 3 avenue de la gare, 47190 Aiguillon, France
Jean-Sébastien Gascuel: Réseau Semences Paysannes, 3 avenue de la gare, 47190 Aiguillon, France
Alexandre Hyacinthe: Réseau Semences Paysannes, 3 avenue de la gare, 47190 Aiguillon, France
Julien Lacanette: Réseau Semences Paysannes, 3 avenue de la gare, 47190 Aiguillon, France
Florent Mercier: Réseau Semences Paysannes, 3 avenue de la gare, 47190 Aiguillon, France
Hélène Montaz: Réseau Semences Paysannes, 3 avenue de la gare, 47190 Aiguillon, France
Bernard Ronot: Réseau Semences Paysannes, 3 avenue de la gare, 47190 Aiguillon, France
Pierre Rivière: Réseau Semences Paysannes, 3 avenue de la gare, 47190 Aiguillon, France

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 12, issue 1, 1-14

Abstract: Participatory plant breeding (PPB) is based on the decentralization of selection in farmers’ fields and their involvement in decision-making at all steps of the breeding scheme. Despite the evidence of its benefits to develop population varieties adapted to diversified and local practices and conditions, such as organic farming, PPB is still not widely used. There is a need to share more broadly how the different programs have overcome scientific, practical, and organizational issues and produced a large number of positive outcomes. Here, we report on a PPB program that started on bread wheat in France in 2006 and has achieved a range of outcomes, from the emergence of new organization among actors, to specific experimental designs and statistical methods developed, and to populations varieties developed and cultivated by farmers. We present the results of a two-year agronomic evaluation of the first population varieties developed within this PPB program compared to two commercial varieties currently grown in organic agriculture. We found that several PPB varieties were of great agronomic interest, combining relatively good performance even under the most favorable conditions of organic agriculture and good robustness, i.e., the ability to maintain productivity under more constraining conditions. The PPB varieties also tended to show a good temporal dynamic stability and appeared promising for the farmers involved.

Keywords: participatory plant breeding; genotype x environment interaction; organic farming; AMMI (Additive Main effects and Multiplicative Interaction) model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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