Participatory Plant Quality Breeding: An Ancient Art Revisited by Knowledge Sharing. The Portuguese Experience

Since the first domestications of wild plants about 12.000 years ago, farmers have been re‐ sponsible for the development and conservation of thousands of crop landraces in hundreds of species [1]. Farmers put aside, for the next generation, a part of the harvested seed. De‐ pending on the crop and the farmer, selection is carried out to obtain a crop answering bet‐ ter to the wishes of the growers and communities [2].

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