@article{142135f35601481daa2c77adb5bc9f54,
title = "Evaluating the potential for farmer and plant breeder collaboration: A case study of farmer maize selection in Oaxaca, Mexico",
abstract = "Formal plant breeders could contribute much to collaboration with farmers for improving crop varieties for local use. To do so outside researchers must have some understanding of local selection practices and their impact on crop populations in terms of the genetic theory underlying plant breeding. In this research we integrated methods from social and biological sciences to better understand selection and its consequences from farmers' perspectives but based on the concepts used by plant breeders. Among the households we worked with, farmers' selection practices were not always effective yet they understood the reasons for this and had no expectations for response to selection in some traits given the methods available to them. Farmers' statements, practices and genetic perceptions regarding selection and the genetic response of their maize populations to their selection indicate selection objectives different than may be typically assumed, suggesting a role for plant breeder collaboration with farmers.",
keywords = "Collaborative/participatory plant breeding, Farmer seed selection, Maize, Mexico, Response to selection, Selection differential, Zea mays L.",
author = "Daniela Soleri and Smith, {Steven E.} and Cleveland, {David A.}",
note = "Funding Information: We thank the farming households in Oaxaca who taught us much and brought great patience and good humor to our work together. Special thanks to Mario Vasquez, Elia and Lourdes Llandez Lopez, Bernardino Castellanos, Delfina, Lorenza and Maxima Castel-lanos for outstanding assistance with the fieldwork. Thanks to the municipal authorities in the study communities who gave us permission to conduct this work. We also thank F. Castillo, G.O. Edmeades, M. Smale and M.E. Smith for discussions and advice relating to this work, and S. Taba, J. Diaz and F. Arag{\'o}n for seed storage and material assistance. Thanks also to JS Bach, The Doors, Lila Downs, BB King and Lu-cile, Ali Farka Toure, Los Lobos, Oumou Sangare, Santana, Hildegard Von Bingen, and Zap Mama. This study was supported in part by the American Association for University Women; Arizona Agricultural Experiment Station; Association for Women in Science; Committee on Research, Faculty Senate, UC Santa Barbara; the Economics Program of CIMMYT through M. Smale; Research Training Grant for the Study of Biological Diversity, University of Arizona; Sigma Xi; the US-Mexico Fulbright Commission; and the USAID-CGIAR Linkage Program.",
year = "2000",
doi = "10.1023/A:1004093916939",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "116",
pages = "41--57",
journal = "Euphytica",
issn = "0014-2336",
publisher = "Springer Netherlands",
number = "1",
}