Overview

This text demonstrates the scientific principles behind plant breeding. It integrates plant breeding, population genetics, quantitative genetics, probability theory and statistics to provide an objective basis for plant selection and breeding. This book should be of interest to plant scientists, plant breeders, upper level and MSc students of plant sciences, plant breeding, genetics, and population biology.

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Author:   Izak Bos ,  P. Caligari
Publisher:   Chapman and Hall
Imprint:   Chapman and Hall
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.682kg
ISBN:  

9780412553301

ISBN 10:   0412553309
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   August 1995
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Population genetical aspects of cross-fertilization. Inbreeding. Assortative mating and disassortative mating. Population genetical effects of selection with regard to sex expression. Random variation of gene frequencies. Selection. Quantitative aspects. Quantitative characters. Effects of the mode of reproduction on the expected genotypic value. Effects of the mode of reproduction on the genetic variance. Applications of quantitative genetic theory in plant breeding. Simultaneous selection for several traits. Selection for quantitative traits. Genotype x environment interaction. The unmasking of the genotype value in case of heterogeneous growing conditions. Effects of competition on the efficiency of selection. The optimum number of replications. The size and shape of test plots. The optimal generation for selection in self-fertilizing crops. Experimental designs for plant breeding.

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...it does give a lot of useful information about the application of theory in breeding programmes and can...be recommended as an additional textbook for students and research workers. - Acta Botanica Neerlandica

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