Breeding Field Crops - Hardcover

Sleper, David A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0813824281 ISBN 13: 9780813824284

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2006

Synopsis

Long recognized as the standard work in its field, this fifth edition of Breeding Field Crops deals with worldwide advances in plant breeding science and practice in recent years.

Building on the foundations of earlier editions, this thoroughly revised volume includes expanded coverage on the role increased knowledge of genetics plays in the development of new crop cultivars, and fully explores exciting new developments in molecular biology.

Breeding Field Crops, Fifth Edition, thoroughly covers the field of plant breeding. The latest edition of this venerable text provides a broad overview of the science of plant breeding, and provides students and breeders with essential fundamental information along with a review of current breakthroughs and technologies. This book will be a valuable source of information for anyone involved in the science of plant breeding for years to come.

About this title

About the Author

David A. Sleper, Ph.D, is Professor in the Division of Plant Sciences at the University of Missouri.

John M. Poehlman was Professor Emeritus, Department of Agronomy at the University of Missouri.

From the Back Cover

Long recognized as the standard work in its field, this fifth edition of Breeding Field Crops deals with worldwide advances in plant breeding science and practice in recent years. Building on the foundations of earlier editions, this thoroughly revised volume includes expanded coverage on the role increased knowledge of genetics plays in the development of new crop cultivars, and fully explores exciting new developments in molecular biology.

Breeding Field Crops, 5th Edition, thoroughly covers the field of plant breeding. The latest edition of this venerable text provides a broad overview of the science of plant breeding, and provides students and breeders with essential fundamental information along with a review of current breakthroughs and technologies. This book will be a valuable source of information for anyone involved in the science of plant breeding for years to come.

• 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

From the Inside Flap

Long recognized as the standard work in its field, this fifth edition of Breeding Field Crops deals with worldwide advances in plant breeding science and practice in recent years. Building on the foundations of earlier editions, this thoroughly revised volume includes expanded coverage on the role increased knowledge of genetics plays in the development of new crop cultivars, and fully explores exciting new developments in molecular biology.

Breeding Field Crops, 5th Edition, thoroughly covers the field of plant breeding. The latest edition of this venerable text provides a broad overview of the science of plant breeding, and provides students and breeders with essential fundamental information along with a review of current breakthroughs and technologies. This book will be a valuable source of information for anyone involved in the science of plant breeding for years to come.

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• Fifth edition of standard-setting crop breeding text
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• Explores the role genetics play in development of new crop cultivars
• 
  
• Covers exciting new developments in molecular biology

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813824281
• ISBN 13: 9780813824284
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 433