Plant Breeding Videos
- Professor Charlie Brummer discusses basic concepts in plant breeding. Watch video here.
- Professor Allen Van Deynze discusses concepts in plant breeding. Watch video here.
- R Seminar. Watch video here.
- Antonia Palkovic, SCOPE Coordinator, discusses field planting logistics for field experiments. Watch video here.
- Saarah Kuzay talks about different cooking techniques including grilling, sautéing, boiling, steaming, and how the different techniques contribute to flavor, color, and texture. Watch video here.
- Active Learning - Student Collaborative Organic Plant Breeding Education (SCOPE) Project at UC Davis. Watch video here.
- Breeding for tomato flavor - Luis Salazar talks about the traits bred for in SCOPE tomatoes, the function of taste/flavor, the components of tomatoes that make up flavor and their selection, and the breeding of tomato flavor. Watch video here.
Bean Breeding Videos
- Claudia Carter speaks on the structure and properties of the common bean. Watch video here.
- Jorge Berny leads a seminar about the history, domestication, and cultural uses of Phaseolus beans. Watch video here.
Wheat Breeding Videos
- Claudia Carter talks about the biochemistry of wheat part 2. Watch video here.
- Claudia Carter talks about the biochemistry of wheat part 3. Watch video here.
- Saarah Kuzay discusses how to interpret wheat phenotypes in the field. Watch video here.
- Saarah Kuzay discusses the origins of bread wheat, wheat diversity, and its cultural uses. Watch video here.
Pepper Breeding Videos
- Demonstration of how to cross pollinate peppers, written, narrated, and edited by interns Justin Ng and David Zhong in the Student Collaborate Organic Plant Breeding Education (SCOPE) program. Watch video here.
- Kraig Kraft talks about the domestication of chile peppers, the cultural significance of chile peppers, and the scoville measurement. Watch video here.
Tomato Breeding Videos
- Demonstration of how to cross pollinate tomatoes, written, narrated, and edited by interns Claire Tauber and Emma Ramirez in the Student Collaborate Organic Plant Breeding Education (SCOPE) program. Watch video here.
- James Weeks from Cal Poly Pomona who talks about crossing blocks for tomatoes. Watch video here.
Zinnia Breeding Videos
- Zinnia seed saving. Watch video here.
- PhD candidate Will Hazzard from UC Davis who talks about SCOPE Zinnia Breeding Program. Will discusses Zinnias, the breeding goals for Zinnias, its crossing structure, and how it differs from other SCOPE breeding projects. Watch video here.
Organic Agriculture in California
SCOPE intern Laura Loomis created this document talking about organic breeding in California. View the document here.
Plant Breeding Comic Series
Undergraduate Student Alan Shen created a series of comics explaining the basics of plant breeding, showing that there are many different ways to be involved in the SCOPE project. You can find his comics here!
SCOPE Project One-Pagers
The SCOPE Teams have created brief, shareable documents that describe their research projects. You can find the collection by crop team below.
