An Introduction to Plant Breeding (eBook)

Jack Brown, Peter Caligari (Autoren)

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2011 | 1. Auflage
224 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-4443-5770-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Plants have been successfully selectively bred for thousands of
years, culminating in incredible yields, quality, resistance and so
on that we see in our modern day crops and ornamental plants. In
recent years the techniques used have been rapidly advanced and
refined to include molecular, cell and genetic techniques.

An Introduction to Plant Breeding provides comprehensive
coverage of the whole area of plant breeding. Covering modes of
reproduction in plants, breeding objectives and schemes, genetics,
predictions, selection, alternative techniques and practical
considerations. Each chapter is carefully laid out in a student
friendly way and includes questions for the reader. The book is
essential reading for all those studying, teaching and researching
plant breeding.

Autor

Jack Brown is Professor of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Department of Plant Soil and Entomological Sciences, University of Idaho, USA. Peter Caligari is Director of the Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, University of Talca, Chile.

Inhalt

1 Introduction..

2 Modes of reproduction and types of cultivar..

3 Breeding objectives..

4 Breeding schemes..

5 Genetics and plant breeding..

6 Predictions..

7 Selection.8 Alternative techniques in plant breeding..

9 Some Practical considerations.

Index.

Rezensionen

?My overall impression is quite positive of this new volume, and I
would not hesitate to recommend it to my beginning students who
wish to have a companion textbook to our principles course.?(
The Quarterly Review of Biology , 2009)

?Brown and Caligari have drawn on their considerable expertise
in plant breeding to write this concise, yet thorough, book. This
book moves beyond the typical by the inclusion of current molecular
topics used in modern breeding, including the use of genetic
markers ? and a balanced examination of the use of this technology.
The authors begin with a good historical overview of plant
breeding, which serves to put in context the central themes
presented throughout the book. Essential.? Choice

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.8.2011
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• Schlagworte: Agriculture • Animal Breeding & Genetics • Biowissenschaften • Botanik • Genetics • Genetik • Landwirtschaft • Life Sciences • plant science • Tierzucht u. Genetik
• ISBN-10: 1-4443-5770-0 / 1444357700
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4443-5770-7 / 9781444357707