Navazio, J.

This project focuses on three alternative grain crops (buckwheat, quinoa and winter spelt) that were identified by organic farmers in Washington State as unique in their potential to diversify and improve existing small to mid-scale farming systems. Buckwheat, quinoa and spelt have the potential, to differing extents, to: diversify cropping systems with under-represented grain crops […]

There is a growing interest in breeding crop plants specifically for the challenges of organic agriculture as researchers begin to realize just how different the environmental factors can be between organic and conventional systems. This is based on the differences in how these factors are used in the two different systems; 1) the amount and […]