Seed activities of the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Zaragoza [Spain]
1988
Cerezo, M. (Instituto Agronomico Mediterraneo de Zaragoza (Spain))
The Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Zaragoza performs two main types of activities: training at the post-graduate level, through specialization or upgrading courses; and promoting the formation of cooperative research groups among experts from Mediterranean countries who work on subjects of common interest. The training courses, focusing on plant breeding and seed production, are regularly held since the academic year 1982/83. They are structured in three sections: bases of plant breeding, breeding of specific crops, and seed production and marketing. The section on the basis of plant breeding deals with the place of plant breeding in agricultural research. The second section of the course focuses on breeding of specific crops because of their economic importance or their particular characteristics, or because they serve as excellent examples for teaching certain breeding methods. The subjects are breeding in cereals: durum wheat, bread wheat, barley, corn, sorghum; breeding in forage plants: forage grasses, forage legumes; breeding in soybean and other grain legumes; breeding in oil plants: sunflower, Brassica; breeding in industrial plants: tobacco, sugarbeet; breeding in horticultural plants: potato, tomato, beans, Brassica, asparagus; breeding in fruit trees: citrus, stone-fruit trees; and breeding in ornamental plants. The third section covers in detail the topics: seed-production programmes, seed production in field crops, production of horticultural seeds, seed borne diseases, seed ventilation, drying and storage, seed processing and treatment, variety preservation, quality control and seed certification, seed marketing, extension and expansion of use of certified seed, and economics of seed production
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