The Plant Breeding Electronic Journal Club is directed to professionals and students interested in discussing relevant plant breeding themes and issues. Its major objectives are to help improve skills of understanding and debating current topics of interest to plant breeding, as well as to promote intellectually stimulating and professionally rewarding exchange with colleagues from around the world.

This e-Journal Club was started on Wednesday, 6 August 2008 thanks to the online discussion tool Fireboard. Based on the results, we decided to migrate the discussion towards an e-mail based e-tool called Dgroups, an online platform offering tools and services that bring individuals and organisations together in the international development community. With this tool, each participant registered in the group receives all e-mails sent to the group in his mailbox. Dgroups allow online discussion and exchange files and implementation of many e-Journal Club groups simultaneously.

 

We will communicate the implementation of this new feature to all individuals already registered in the previous discussion. To have a look at the article that was the subject of the previous discussion, click on the following links:  "Quantitative Genetics, Genomics, and the Future of Plant Breeding" by Dr. Bruce Walsh, who kindly offered a second, more recent paper, "Quantitative Genetics, Version 3.0: Where have we gone since 1987 and where are we headed?", which will be used as a supplemental reading.

Click below to download the article "Quantitative Genetics, Genomics, and the Future of Plant Breeding" by Dr. Bruce Walsh, which was the main element of discussion.