 Principles of Plant Breeding, 2nd Edition
ISBN: 978-0-471-02309-8
Hardcover
264 pages
May 1999
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INTRODUCTORY TOPICS.
Darwinian Evolution.
Origins of Agriculture.
Evolution During Domestication.
Mating Systems of Plants.
Overview of Plant Breeding.
BIOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF PLANT BREEDING.
Heredity and Environment.
Genetic Consequences of Hybridization.
Inheritance of Continuously Varying Characters: Biometrical Genetics.
Evolution During Cultivation.
Marker-Assisted Analysis of Adaptedness in Nature.
Marker-Assisted Dissection of Adaptedness in Cultivation.
MODERN BREEDING PLANS.
Reproductive Systems and Breeding Plans.
Breeding Self-Pollinated Plants.
Breeding Hybrid Varieties of Outcrossing Plants.
Breeding Clonally Propagated Plants.
Breeding Hybrid Varieties of Selfing Plants and Plants that Are Clonally Propagated in Nature.
Plant Breeding for Low-Input Agricultures.
Glossary.
References.
Index.
Darwinian Evolution.
Origins of Agriculture.
Evolution During Domestication.
Mating Systems of Plants.
Overview of Plant Breeding.
BIOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF PLANT BREEDING.
Heredity and Environment.
Genetic Consequences of Hybridization.
Inheritance of Continuously Varying Characters: Biometrical Genetics.
Evolution During Cultivation.
Marker-Assisted Analysis of Adaptedness in Nature.
Marker-Assisted Dissection of Adaptedness in Cultivation.
MODERN BREEDING PLANS.
Reproductive Systems and Breeding Plans.
Breeding Self-Pollinated Plants.
Breeding Hybrid Varieties of Outcrossing Plants.
Breeding Clonally Propagated Plants.
Breeding Hybrid Varieties of Selfing Plants and Plants that Are Clonally Propagated in Nature.
Plant Breeding for Low-Input Agricultures.
Glossary.
References.
Index.
