O‘ahu Workshop March 24-25, 2012
Presentations

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Global Seed Industry by Hector Valenzuela.
• Brief Summary of Statewide Seed Assesment from the 2010 Seed Symposium.
• Variety Trials and Seed Viability in Hawai‘i

Seed Basics: Botany and Biology by Russell Nagata.
• Monocot and Dicot Plant Differences
• Open-Pollinated/Hybrid/Heirloom
• Inbreeding/outbreeding: Know Your Crops Mating preferences.
• Selfing/Cross Pollination Pollen Transfer (wind, insect, human)
• Reproductive Cycles: Annuals, Biennials, Perennials
• Different Strategies - population numbers, isolation distances, roughing and selection to maintain seed purity

Growing Tomato for Seed in the Garden by Glenn Teves.
Overview of what conventional tomato breeders might consider:
• Selecting for cultivars with characteristics that address the special needs of Island propagation.

Grafting Tomatoes For Nematode And Disease Resistance by Angelo Loffredo.
• Why graft?
• Varieties for rootstock.
• How to care for the graft.
• Grafting Demonstration.

Growing Dryland Taro by Glenn Teves.

Seed Saving And Storage: Basic Techniques And Ideas. Simple Techniques For A Home Mini-Seed Bank by Alvin Yohsinaga.

Seed Storage Of Hawaiian Species And Trends For Some Of the Lyon Arboretum Research Collections by Tim Kroessig.

Growing Requirements for Producing Lettuce for Seed by Russell Nagata.
• Cleaning Techniques for Dry Seeded Crops.
• Pollination, Isolation, Optimum Number of Plants
• Seed Purity, Improving Lettuce Varieties, Roguing and Selection
• Seed Storage, Viability Testing