Principles of plant breeding
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
John Wiley ,
c1999
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| Edition: | 2nd ed |
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| Online Access: | Table of Contents |
Table of Contents:
- INTRODUCTORY TOPICS
- 1. Darwinian Evolution
- 2. Origins of Agriculture
- 3. Evolution During Domestication
- 4. Mating Systems of Plants
- 5. Overview of Plant Breeding
- BIOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF PLANT BREEDING
- 6. Heredity and Environment
- 7. Genetic Consequences of Hybridization
- 8. Inheritance of Continuously Varying Characters: Biometrical Genetics
- 9. Evolution During Cultivation
- 10. Marker-Assisted Analysis of Adaptedness in Nature
- 11. Marker-Assisted Dissection of Adaptedness in Cultivation
- MODERN BREEDING PLANS
- 12. Reproductive Systems and Breeding Plans
- 13. Breeding Self-Pollinated Plants
- 14. Breeding Hybrid Varieties of Outcrossing Plants
- 15. Breeding Clonally Propagated Plants
- 16. Breeding Hybrid Varieties of Selfing Plants and Plants that Are Clonally Propagated in Nature
- 17. Plant Breeding for Low-Input Agricultures