breeding program Books
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Economic Aspects of Animal Breeding
of breeding goals within an economic context and economic evaluation of breeding programs. During the ...
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Selection and Breeding Programs in Aquaculture
breeding programs is also addressed. The book’s main objective is to stimulate development of ...
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Selective Breeding in Aquaculture: an Introduction
the concepts behind establishing and running successful breeding programs. Although only 10% of ...
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Cereals
breeding. Unfortunately, applied plant breeding programs that are focused on cereal commodity ...
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Haploids in Crop Improvement I
The incorporation of haploids in breeding programs is one of the latest techniques used for ...
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Advances in Molecular Breeding Toward Drought and Salt Tolerant Crops
and food security worldwide. Breeding programs to improve crop yield in dry and saline environments ...
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Handbook of Quantitative Forest Genetics
geneticists and breeders in designing programs and analyzing data. Beginning with a justification for the ...
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Genetic Improvement of Seed Quality
Dramatic examples of genetic enhancement of seed quality exist relative to hardness, germination, protein quality and quantity, oil, and many other traits. Maintenance of seed quality is also paramount in the preservation of biodiversity. Readers first learn fundamentals of preserving and enhancing good agronomic seed quality as well as specific disease and deteoriation mechanisms. Succeeding ...
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Adaptation and Fitness in Animal Populations
. Extensive genetic variation exists between varieties/breeds in a species and amongst individuals ...
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Biotechnology of Food Crops in Developing Countries
Tropical crops such as cowpea, yam, plantain, and cassava are heavily underresearched but, in addition to rice, maize, wheat, and potato, are important as primary or secondary food staples in the developing countries. The modern tools of molecular and cellular technology offer the opportunity not only to make substantial gains in knowledge of these crops, but also they overcome some of the ...
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Mansfeld´s Encyclopedia of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
This long-awaited English edition of the famous "Mansfeld" gives a full account of all agricultural and horticultural plants, other than ornamentals, grown throughout the world presently or in the past. More than 6040 species are covered, including food crops, forage, oil, fibre, spice, medicinal, industrial and so-called auxiliary plants (shade trees, green manure or cover plants). Summaries are ...
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Flower Breeding and Genetics
Flowers are essential crops which beautify interiorscapes, outdoor landscapes and enhance human health. Floriculture is one of the fastest-growing sectors of commercial agriculture world-wide with many highly profitable crops. Such a diversity of new and domesticated flower crops is created by public and private sector flower breeders. This book provides a unique and valuable resource on the many ...
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Molecular Techniques in Crop Improvement
The first edition of this book, "Molecular techniques in crop improvement" published in 2002 provided comprehensive information on the latest tools and techniques of molecular genetics and applications in crop improvement, and highlighted molecular genetics from the perspective of plant breeders. Since then, major advances have been made in molecular tagging of genes/QTLs governing complex ...
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Genetics for Fish Hatchery Managers
programs that produce true breeding populations. It also considers quantitative issues, ...
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