Long recognized as the standard work in its
field, this
fifth edition of Breeding
Field Crops deals with the worldwide advances in plant
breeding science and practice in recent years. The authors explain how
the expanded knowledge of genetics has contributed to the precision
with which new crop cultivars can be developed. The author also looks
at how exciting developments in molecular biology are bringing powerful
new tools to supplement those already in the hands of plant
breeders.
The general objectives of Breeding
Field Crops are: to review essential features in plant
reproduction, Mendelian genetic principles, and related genetic
phenomena that contribute to plant breeding practices; to describe and
explain basic plant breeding methods and techniques; to emphasize the
importance of selecting the breeding objectives whose improvement will
contribute the greatest economic benefit to the farmer growing the new
cultivars; and to describe procedures for the increase, maintenance,
and distribution of seeds or vegetative propagules of new crop
cultivars..
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Breeding Field Crops
by David Allen Sleper and John Milton Poehlman
Fifth Edition
Blackwell
Publishing,
2006.
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