Returns to public sector plant breeding in the presence of spill-ins and private goods: the case of bean research in Michigan

2010 ◽  
Vol 41 (5) ◽  
pp. 425-442 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mywish K. Maredia ◽  
Richard Bernsten ◽  
Catherine Ragasa
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Plant Breeding ◽  
Private Goods ◽  
Bean Research ◽  
Sector Plant

scholarly journals CROP GENETIC RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND THE THREAT POSED BY THE LOSS OF PUBLIC SECTOR PLANT BREEDING PROGRAMS

HortScience ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 25 (9) ◽  
pp. 1179g-1179
Author(s):  
Laura C. Merrick
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Plant Breeding ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Nationwide Survey ◽  
Breeding Programs ◽  
Germplasm Collections ◽  
The Status ◽  
Crop Germplasm ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Sector Plant

Collections of crop genetic resources have been assembled and evaluated as part of plant breeding efforts and in that capacity have served as the foundation for genetic improvement of crops. Most of these collections have been held at public sector institutions, including both federal and state agricultural experiment stations. However, recent changes have occurred in government agricultural research policies and funding structure which have lead to a decline in public sector breeding programs. Breeders retire and are not replaced or, for other reasons, programs are discontinued. The loss of the breeding programs maybe adversely affecting the status of the associated germplasm, if no means are provided for continued conservation of the collections. The results of a nationwide survey to assess the number and status of crop germplasm collections associated with public sector plant breeding programs and the relationship of those collections to the National Plant Germplasm System will be discussed. Recommendations will be made in regard to coordination of activities to ensure conservation of the germplasm held in plant breeders' collections.

scholarly journals CROP GENETIC RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND THE THREAT POSED BY THE LOSS OF PUBLIC SECTOR PLANT BREEDING PROGRAMS

HortScience ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 25 (9) ◽  
pp. 1179G-1179
Author(s):  
Laura C. Merrick
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Plant Breeding ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Nationwide Survey ◽  
Breeding Programs ◽  
Germplasm Collections ◽  
The Status ◽  
Crop Germplasm ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Sector Plant

Collections of crop genetic resources have been assembled and evaluated as part of plant breeding efforts and in that capacity have served as the foundation for genetic improvement of crops. Most of these collections have been held at public sector institutions, including both federal and state agricultural experiment stations. However, recent changes have occurred in government agricultural research policies and funding structure which have lead to a decline in public sector breeding programs. Breeders retire and are not replaced or, for other reasons, programs are discontinued. The loss of the breeding programs maybe adversely affecting the status of the associated germplasm, if no means are provided for continued conservation of the collections. The results of a nationwide survey to assess the number and status of crop germplasm collections associated with public sector plant breeding programs and the relationship of those collections to the National Plant Germplasm System will be discussed. Recommendations will be made in regard to coordination of activities to ensure conservation of the germplasm held in plant breeders' collections.

scholarly journals Enhancing the rate of genetic gain in public-sector plant breeding programs: lessons from the breeder’s equation

2019 ◽  
Vol 132 (3) ◽  
pp. 627-645 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua N. Cobb ◽  
Roselyne U. Juma ◽  
Partha S. Biswas ◽  
Juan D. Arbelaez ◽  
Jessica Rutkoski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Plant Breeding ◽  
Genetic Gain ◽  
Breeding Programs ◽  
Sector Plant

The Fate of Peasant-Friendly Plant Breeding in Nazi Germany

2010 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 569-603 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Harwood
Keyword(s):  
Plant Breeding ◽  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
National Socialist ◽  
The Third ◽  
New Varieties ◽  
High Quality Seed ◽  
Peasant Farmers ◽  
Sector Plant

The peasantry played a central role in National Socialist ideology, as both a source of racial strength and a foundation of the economy. In this paper I explore the extent to which the regime's policies actually favored peasant farming. The first section looks at the overall character of agricultural policy and demonstrates that although peasant farmers were targeted for special assistance from 1933 until 1936, they were neglected thereafter as the economy geared up for war. In the second section I focus upon a particular set of policies——-the regime's attempts to promote the use of high-quality seed——-and show that while farmers as a whole probably gained from these measures, peasants appear not to have benefited differentially. In the third section I examine agricultural officials' attempts to establish a "division of labor" between public-sector plant breeding institutions and commercial breeders. I demonstrate that although the former had been successfully developing new varieties specifically designed for peasant farmers since the turn of the century, this work was henceforth to be curtailed so as not to "compete" with the private sector. In the conclusion I argue that neither the regime's policies on plant breeding nor the highly centralized character of agricultural policy-making can be regarded as specifically fascist.

scholarly journals Two Paradigms of Economic Development in CEE Countries

Ekonomika ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Povilas Gylys
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Methodological Individualism ◽  
Private Goods ◽  
The Public ◽  
Economic Reality ◽  
Economic Goods ◽  
Methodological Holism

The direction of economic development depends on the paradigmatic framework in which economic reality is perceived. In the framework of holistic paradigm also public and not only private goods are understood as economic goods. Correspondingly, the public sector is enclosed into economy. The individualistic approach presupposes reduction of economic reality to market and overtly or covertly negative attitude towards public sector as non-economic. The phenomenon of reflexiveness is present here. Methodological holism and methodological individualism give birth to different strategies of economic policy and finally lead to different outcomes of economic development.

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