Breeding field crops
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Ames, Iowa :
Blackwell Pu ,
2006
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| Edition: | 5th ed |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Plant breeders and their work, 2. Reproduction in crop plants, 3. Gene recombination in plant breeding, 4. Quantitative inheritance in plant breeding, 5. Variations in chromosome number, 6 Mutation, 7. Fertility-regulating mechanisms and their manipulation, 8. Biotechnology and plant breeding, 9. Breeding self-pollinated crops, 10. Breeding cross-pollinated and clonally propagated crops 11. Breeding hybrid cultivars, 12. Breeding objectives and techniques, 13. Germplasm resources and conservation, 14. Breeding wheat, 15. Breeding rice, 16. Breeding soybean, 17. Breeding corn (maize), 18. Breeding sorghum, 19. Breeding cotton, 20. Breeding cross-pollinated forage crops, 21. Breeding potato, 22. Breeding sugarcane, 23. Cultivar increase, maintenance, and seed production