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
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chichester, West Sussex, UK :
Wiley-Blackwell ,
c2012
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| Edition: | 2nd ed |
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Table of Contents:
- 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