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.
Cuprins
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.
Despre autor
Jules Janick is the James Troop Distinguished Professor of Horticulture at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN, USA.
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