Principles of plant genetics and breeding

To respond to the increasing need to feed the world's population as well as an ever greater demand for a balanced and healthy diet there is a continuing need to produce improved new cultivars or varieties of plants, particularly crop plants

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Acquaah, George (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chichester, West Sussex, UK : Wiley-Blackwell , c2012
Edition:2nd ed
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505 0 |a 1. Overview and historical perspectives -- 2. Population and quantitative genetic principles -- 3. Reproductive systems -- 4. Germplasm for breeding -- 5. Breeding objectives -- 6. Selection methods -- 7. Molecular breeding -- 8. Marketing and societal issues in breeding -- 9. Breeding selected crops 
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