COST860, SUSVAR Handbook

About the Handbook

The testing of varieties for organic and low input agriculture, compared to conventional variety testing, not only deals with different growing environments, but also with different priorities for traits to be assessed. For example weed competitiveness and nutrient uptake efficiency have been reported as relevant characteristics to be evaluated in organic variety testing. As these traits are not incorporated in conventional variety testing protocols, evaluation methodologies have been developed recently in several European countries. These and other methodologies such as lodging, susceptibility to diseases and processing quality. are presented in this handbook Furthermore a chapter on trial set up and statistical analysis is included.

Chapters and authors

Edited by Dingena Donner (Board for Plant Varieties, Netherlands) and Aart Osman (Louis Bolk Instituut, Netherlands)

Setting up Variety Trials for Organic and Low input agriculture

Lilia Levy (Agroscope, Switzerland), Aart Osman (Louis Bolk Instituut, Netherlands), Irene Felix (Arvalis, France) and Michael Oberforster (AGES, Austria)

Trial Setup And Statistical Analysis

Andreas Büchse (University of Hohenheim, Germany), Pawel Krajewski (IPG, Poland), Kristian Kristensen (DIAS, Denmark), Wieslaw Pilarczyk (Agricultural University of Poznan, Poland)

Weed Competitiveness

Clemens Kruepl (AGES, Austria), Steve Hoad and Ken Davies (SAC, Scotland), Nils-Ove Bertholdsson (Svalöf Weibull, Sweden), Roberto Paolini (University of Tuscia, Italy)

Disease Assessment

Kerstin Flath, Franziska Waldow and Bernd Rodemann (BBA, Germany), Mike Cooke (UC Dublin, Ireland) Werner Vogt-Kaute (Naturland, Germany), Thomas Miedaner (University of Hohenheim, Germany), Fernando Martínez (University of Sevilla, Spain), Adrian Newton (SCRI ,Scotland) Marja Jalli (MTT, Finland), Lisa Munk (KVL, Denmark) and Jakob Willas (DIAS, Denmark)

Evaluation Of Lodging

Johan van Waes (DFE-CLO, Belgium)

Nutrient Use Efficiency

Lars Ericson (SLU, Sweden)

Processing Quality

Eva Johansson (SLU, Sweden), Heinrich Grausgruber(BOKU, Austria) and Stuart Swanston (SCRI, Scotland)

Published by COST860 – SUSVAR (Chair Hanne Østergård, Risø National Laboratory, Denmark)

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Updates

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Last revision: 2007-06-13.

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