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This film created by the TCAP Project gives you a look into the world of plant breeders. Watch on Vimeo or YouTube
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| Seeds of Hope, a video created by the TCAP, discusses the importance of continual plant breeding for disease and pest resistance. Plant breeding is a sustainable solution because it provides plants that are less impacted by disease and pests without additional inputs. Because disease and pests are always changing, plant breeders must be continually working to provide new varieties. Watch on Vimeo or YouTube. |
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Everything is local! Wheat breeder Luther Talbert and entomologist David Weaver discuss their efforts in mitigating the negative impact of the wheat stem sawfly in Montana that are complicated by the life cycle of the pest. This video, created by TCAP emphasizes how plant breeders approach problems specific to a region. Click on the image on the right to view the video. |
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Stewards of the Ground describes how plant breeding is empowering growers to produce more food on less acres in a more sustainable manner. |
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Steve Baenziger's Heurmann Lecture "Setting the Stage: Why Agriculture?" Nov 10, 2011 |
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This project was supported in part by the National Research Initiative Competitive Grants CAP project 2011-68002-30029 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, adminstered by the University of California-Davis and by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Undergraduate Education, National SMETE Digital Library Program, Award #0938034, administered by the University of Nebraska. Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the USDA or NSF.
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