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Synopsis
An introductory text on plant breeding. The main objectives of the book include: a review of the essential features of plant reproduction and genetic principles; an evaluation of established and new plant-breeding techniques; and achieving success in variety development.
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* Fifth edition of standard-setting crop breeding text
* Explores the role genetics play in development of new crop cultivars
* Covers exciting new developments in molecular biology
Provides broad coverage of crop breeding
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Long recognized as the standard work in its field, this fourth 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. They also look 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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- PublisherIowa State University Press
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0813824265
- ISBN 13 9780813824260
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number3
- Number of pages740
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