Seed Production and Plant Breeding for Organic Agriculture
- Resources
- Soils and Fertility
- Horticulture
- Field Crops
- Crop Rotation
- Pest Management
- Season Extension
- Seed Production and Plant Breeding
- Livestock
- Ecology and Environment
- Nutrition, Safety and Health of Organic Foods
- Post-harvest Handling, Storage and Processing
- Social Science
- Marketing and Economics
- Transition to Organic
- Canadian Organic Research Priorities
Practical Resources
- Basics of Organic Seed Production
- eOrganic Course
- eOrganic Course
- Breeding Organic Vegetables [PDF - 5.9 MB]
- Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York. 2011
- Carrot Improvement for Organic Agriculture Recorded Webinar
- eOrganic. 2015
- Challenges of Participatory Plant Breeding
- FiBL. 2014
- Climatic Considerations for Seed Crops: Guidelines and Field Trainings for Organic and Specialty Vegetable Seed Producers
- Organic Seed Alliance. 2014
- Conducting On Farm Variety Trials to Manage Risk for Organic and Specialty Crop Producers Part 1
- eOrganic. 2018
- Disease Management in Organic Seed Production
- eOrganic. 2014
- Ecological Seed Finder
- Seeds of Diversity. 2013
- How to Breed Carrots for Organic Agriculture
- Organic Seed Alliance. 2014
- How to Breed Sweet Corn for Organic Agriculture
- Organic Seed Alliance. 2014
- How to Breed Tomatoes for Organic Agriculture
- Organic Seed Alliance. 2014
- Introduction to On-farm Organic Plant Breeding
- Organic Seed Alliance. 2014
- Organic Seed Alliance. 2014
- Keeping your Seed Crops Healthy Recorded Webinar
- Bauta Seed Initiative. 2014
- The Market for Organic & Ecological Seed in Canada. Trends and Opportunities, 2014 [PDF – 6.3 MB]
- Canada Organic Trade Association and The Bauta Family Initiative on Canadian Seed Security. 2014
- On-farm Variety Trials: A Guide for Organic Vegetable, Herb, and Flower Producers [PDF - 2.6 MB]
- Organic Seed Alliance. 2007
- Organic Seed Processing: Threshing, Cleaning and Storage
- eOrganic. 2014
- Organic Seed Production Webinar Series by eOrganic (Video). 2017
- Organic Seed Production Webinar Series by eOrganic (Video). 2016
- Organic Seed Production Webinar Series: Seed Quality, Harvesting and Equipment
- Organic Seed Alliance and eOrganic. 2017
- Organic Seed Recordings from Organicology 2017
- eOrganic. 2017
- Organic Seed Resource Guide
- eOrganic. 2010
- Organic Seed Treatments and Coatings
- eOrganic. 2016
- Organic Tomato Seed Production
- eOrganic. 2018
- Participatory Plant Breeding for Canadian Organic Crop Production
- Natural Systems Agriculture. 2015
- Participatory Plant Breeding Toolkit [PDF - 21.1 MB]
- Organic Seed Alliance. 2012
- Planning Vegetable Seed Crops Recorded Webinar
- Bauta Seed Initiative. 2014
- Plant Breeding Techniques: An assessment for organic farming
- FiBL. 2015
- Pollination and Fertilization in Organic Seed Production
- eOrganic. 2015
- Pollinator Management for Organic Seed Producers [PDF - 1.5 MB]
- The Xerces Society. 2013
- The Xerces Society. 2013
- Principles and Practices of Organic Bean Seed Production in the Pacific Northwest [PDF - 4.7 MB]
- Organic Seed Alliance. 2007
- Principles and Practices of Organic Radish Seed Production in the Pacific Northwest [PDF - 6.0 MB]
- Organic Seed Alliance. 2007
- Principles and Practices of Organic Spinach Seed Production in the Pacific Northwest [PDF - 517 kB]
- Organic Seed Alliance. 2007
- Proceedings from the 8th Organic Seed Growers Conference
- Organic Seed Alliance. 2016
- Proceedings of the 7th Organic Seed Growers Conference
- Organic Seed Alliance. 2014
- Proceedings of the 6th Organic Seed Growers Conference [PDF - 3.7 MB]
- Organic Seed Alliance. 2012
- Recorded Webinars from the 8th Organic Seed Growers Conference
- Organic Seed Alliance. 2016
- Recorded Presentations from the 2014 Organic Seed Growers Conference
- eOrganic. 2014
- Recordings from the 2015 US Organic Agriculture Research Symposium
- Breeding high nutritional value corn for organic farmers
- Building a healthy organic seed system for potatoes through farmer-researcher partnerships
- Collaborative Release of an Open-Pollinated Sweet Corn Variety
- Evaluation of carrot for traits related to early seedling establishment and canopy growth at different planting densities in organic systems
- Participatory Breeding of Wheat, Spelt, Emmer and Einkorn for Organic Farming
- The Carrot Improvement for Organic Agriculture Project: Location and Genetic Background Influence Carrot Field Performance and Flavor
- Seed Economics Intensive Part 1: Inventory Management
- eOrganic. 2018
- Seed Economics Intensive Part 2: Choosing a Scale and Marketing
- eOrganic. 2018
- Seed Production and Variety Development for Organic Systems
- ATTRA. 2005
- A Seed Saving Guide for Gardeners and Farmers [PDF - 3.5 MB]
- Organic Seed Alliance. 2010
- Selecting "Modern" Heirloom Dry Beans Recorded Webinar
- eOrganic. 2016
- State of Organic Seed, 2016
- Organic Seed Alliance. 2016
- Using Participatory Variety Trials to Assess Response to Environment in Organic Vegetable Crops Recorded Webinar
- eOrganic. 2015
- Weather-Related Risk Reduction Guidelines for Dry-Seeded Specialty Seed Crops [PDF - 2.8 MB]
- Organic Seed Alliance. 2006
Scientific Results
- Comparison of Selection Efficiency for Spring Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) under Organic and Conventional Farming Conditions
- Crop Science (2017) 57: 626-636
- Concepts and Strategies of Organic Plant Breeding in Light of Novel Breeding Techniques
- Sustainability (2017) 9: 18
- Effect of competition between Vicia faba and Camelina sativa as a model weed in breeding for organic conditions
- Weed Research (2016) 56: 159-167
- Evolutionary breeding for sustainable agriculture: Selection and multi-environmental evaluation of barley populations and lines
- Field Crops Research (2017) 204: 76-88
- Farmer Participation in Plant Breeding for Canadian Organic Crop Production: Implications for Adaptation to Climate Uncertainty
- Procedia Environmental Sciences (2015) 29: 238-239
- Feasibility of new breeding techniques for organic farming
- Trends in Plant Science (2015) 20: 426-434
- How to optimize fruit and berry cultivar selection for organic farmers? A comparison of European approaches
- Organic Eprints. 2015
- Key Traits and Promising Germplasm for an Organic Participatory Tomato Breeding Program in the U.S. Midwest
- HortScience (2015) 50: 1301-1308
- Mapping QTLs Controlling Agronomic Traits in the ‘Attila’ × ‘CDC Go’ Spring Wheat Population under Organic Management using 90K SNP Array
- Crop Science (2017) 57: 365-377
- Participatory tomato breeding for organic conditions in Italy
- Euphytica (2015) 204: 179-197
- Release of Eight Open Source Carrot (Daucus carota var. sativa) Composite Populations Developed under Organic Conditions
- HortScience (2016) 51: 448-450
- Seed and Plant Breeding for Wisconsin’s Organic Vegetable Sector: Understanding Farmers’ Needs
- Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems (2015) 39: 601-624
- Socioeconomic Obstacles to Establishing a Participatory Plant Breeding Program for Organic Growers in the United States
- Sustainability (2010) 2: 73-91
- A study to guide breeding of new cultivars of organic cherry tomato following a consumer-driven approach
- Food Research International (2013) 51: 285-273