Vegetable breeding site

[Robert_Brenchley]

For anyone interested in breeding, there's a new site here:

http://plantbreedingforum.eu/index.php

[Robert_Brenchley]

[Jayb]

Thanks Robert, I'll take a look.

[galina]

Interesting Robert, thanks. There are some well-known people on there too.  Do we know who started it and why?  Just seems to have sprung up from nowhere.  How did you find out about it Robert?   

There is another forum along similar lines,  the seedsaving/breeding yahoo group, started by Ben from Real Seeds.  Unfortunately that has gone all too quiet.  Let's hope this one is more lively.

[Robert_Brenchley]

I'm not certain where I saw it; it may have been on Homegrown Goodness, or maybe Facebook. It'll be good if  enough of us join to make it lively.

[galina]

Here is an article that might be helpful for anybody interested in breeding (or in seed saving).  With useful diagrams and botanical terms explained:
http://www.aces.uiuc.edu/vista/html_pubs/PLBREED/pl_breed.html

[digmore]

Did anyone see the news article on Tv. about GM crops, only a 60 sec gap filler, John Innes involved in the development of a type of wheat that draws its nitrogen requirements directly from the air. So reducing the need for fertilizers, and pollution and costs.

I know that man/woman has over the years changed the crops that we eat, you only have to look in a corn field at harvest time, when I was a kid, hay was nearly 3ft tall with small ears. Now its no more than 18ins and large ears and comes to full term alot quicker than the old variety.

I wonder where we are going with this line of development, no facts for this next statement, we seem to have more illnesses these days, could there be a link but on the other hand we seem to be living longer. Is it food related or are living easier lives.

Digmore.

[Jayb]

Here is an article that might be helpful for anybody interested in breeding (or in seed saving).  With useful diagrams and botanical terms explained:
http://www.aces.uiuc.edu/vista/html_pubs/PLBREED/pl_breed.html

I've just had a quick gander, looks an interesting site, I'll take a proper look later