Plant Breeding Reviews, Volume 24, Part 2 presents state-of-the-art reviews on plant genetics and the breeding of all types of crops by both traditional means and molecular methods. The emphasis of the series is on methodology, a practical understanding of crop genetics, and applications to major crops.
Table des matières
Contributors.
Preface.
CROPS.
1. Crop Domestication as a Long-term Selection Experiment (Paul
Gepts).
2. Long-term Selection in Plants in the Developing World (J.W.
Miles and S. Pandey).
3. Trends in Productivity of U.S. Crops and Long-term Selection
(William F. Tracy, et al.).
4. Long-term Selection in a Commercial Hybrid Maize Breeding
Program (D.N. Duvick, et al.).
5. Long-term Divergent Selection for Ear Length in Maize (Arnel
R. Hallauer, et al.).
ANIMALS.
6. Inferences on the Genetic of Quantitative Traits from
Long-term Selection in Laboratory and Domestic Animals (William G.
Hill and Lutz Bünger).
7. Long-term Selection for Pupal Weight in Tribolium
castaneum (W.M. Muir, et al.).
BACTERIA.
8. Phenotypic and Genomic Evolution during a 20, 000-Generation
Experiment with the Bacterium Escherichia coli (Richard E.
Lenski).
Subject Index.
Cumulative Subject Index.
Cumulative Contributor Index.
A propos de l’auteur
Jules Janick is the James Troop Distinguished Professor of Horticulture at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN, USA.
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