An Introduction to Plant Breeding
Published on 4. April 2013
224 pages
978-1-118-68523-5 (ISBN)
Description
Plants have been successfully selectively bred for thousands ofyears, culminating in incredible yields, quality, resistance and soon that we see in our modern day crops and ornamental plants. Inrecent years the techniques used have been rapidly advanced andrefined to include molecular, cell and genetic techniques.
An Introduction to Plant Breeding provides comprehensivecoverage of the whole area of plant breeding. Covering modes ofreproduction in plants, breeding objectives and schemes, genetics,predictions, selection, alternative techniques and practicalconsiderations. Each chapter is carefully laid out in a studentfriendly way and includes questions for the reader. The book isessential reading for all those studying, teaching and researchingplant breeding.
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?My overall impression is quite positive of this new volume, and Iwould not hesitate to recommend it to my beginning students whowish to have a companion textbook to our principles course.?(The Quarterly Review of Biology , 2009) ?Brown and Caligari have drawn on their considerable expertisein plant breeding to write this concise, yet thorough, book. Thisbook moves beyond the typical by the inclusion of current moleculartopics used in modern breeding, including the use of geneticmarkers ? and a balanced examination of the use of this technology.The authors begin with a good historical overview of plantbreeding, which serves to put in context the central themespresented throughout the book. Essential.? ChoiceMore details
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Jack Brown | Peter Caligari
An Introduction to Plant Breeding
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01/2008
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Wiley-Blackwell
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Jack Brown is Professor of Plant Breeding and Genetics,Department of Plant Soil and Entomological Sciences, University ofIdaho, USA.
Peter Caligari is Director of the Institute of PlantBiology and Biotechnology, University of Talca, Chile.
Content
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.
