plant breeding Books

Plant breeding and farmer participation

This book complements the traditional approach to plant breeding by addressing a number of issues specifically related to the participation of farmers in a plant breeding programme, and provides a comprehensive description and assessment of the use of participatory plant breeding in developing ...

By Earthprint Ltd
Plant Breeding

This book marks the centenary of the rediscovery of Mendel’s laws of biological inheritance, which have had their greatest economic impact in the rapid development of the science of plant breeding. It documents the development of methods of plant breeding over a hundred year period beginning with simple ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH
Androgenesis and Haploid Plants

Jointly published with INRA, Paris.The use of haploid plants is of increasing importance in plant biology and plant breeding. This book illustrates how the advances in plant molecular and cell biology provide an exciting means for the analysis of androgenesis in terms of pollen development and the ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH
Haploids in Crop Improvement II

Doubled haploid technology is an important tool for plant breeding. It allows for significant time reduction in the achievement of homozygous breeding lines of value in crop improvement. This volume provides an excellent overview of haploid induction and the application of doubled haploids. The authors ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH
Oil Crops

The volume on oil crop breeding is the third volume in the series, Handbook of Plant Breeding after the initial volumes on Vegetables and Cereals. Like the other volumes in the series, the volume will present information on the latest in applied plant breeding using the current advances in the field. The book ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH
Quantitative and Ecological Aspects of Plant Breeding

This fourth book in the Plant Breeding Series introduces the techniques required to analyse the quantitative genetical variation confronting all plant breeders. It clearly describes the methods available to handle complex characters and their responses to the stresses and constraints imposed on ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH
Breeding Tropical and Subtropical Fruits

Plant breeding has undergone a period of very rapid and significant development in recent years and the area of fruit breeding is no exception. This book provides a balanced, up-to-date and comprehensive account of the developments in the field of breeding tropical and subtropical fruits. It offers not ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH
Advances in Haploid Production in Higher Plants

The discovery of haploid Datura plants in 1964 initiated great excitement in plant breeding and genetics communities. Recent years have witnessed a resurgence in activities especially in developing protocols, identifying genes and mechanisms and large scale commercial take up. The identification of controlling ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH
Cereals

Agriculture depends on improved cultivars, and cultivars are developed through proper plant breeding. Unfortunately, applied plant breeding programs that are focused on cereal commodity crops are under serious erosion because of lack of funding. This loss of public support affects breeding continuity, ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH
Genomics-Assisted Crop Improvement

Genomics research has great potential to revolutionize the discipline of plant breeding. This two-volume set provides a critical assessment of genomics tools and approaches for crop breeding. Volume 1, entitled "Genomics Approaches and Platforms", illustrates state-of-the-art genomics approaches and ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH
Molecular Marker Systems in Plant Breeding and Crop Improvement

Successful release of new and better crop varieties increasingly requires genomics and molecular biology. This volume presents basic information on plant molecular marker techniques from marker location up to gene cloning. The text includes a description of technical approaches in genome analysis such as ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH
Vegetables I

This first volume of the Handbook of Plant Breeding book series is devoted to vegetable crops breeding. Each chapter is dedicated to a major vegetable crop. Each chapter contains a comprehensive review of the diversity, breeding techniques, achievements and use of the most advanced molecular techniques in the ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH
Brassicas and Legumes

Genome sequence studies have become more and more important for plant breeding. Brassicas and Legumes: From Genome Structure to Breeding comprises 16 chapters and presents both an overview and the latest results of this rapidly expanding field. Topics covered include: genome analysis of a flowering plant, ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH
Vegetables II

This first volume of the Handbook of Plant Breeding book series is devoted to vegetable crops breeding. Each chapter is dedicated to a major vegetable crop. Each chapter contains a comprehensive review of the diversity, breeding techniques, achievements and use of the most advanced molecular techniques in the ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH
Broadening the Genetic Base of Crop Production

-breeding and genetic enhancement before it can be used in plant breeding programmes. The authors explore ...

By Earthprint Ltd
Virus-Resistant Transgenic Plants: Potential Ecological Impact

The introduction of novel genes into plants by genetic transformation holds great promise for plant breeding, and many crop species have been rendered virus-resistant by expression of viral sequences. However, it is essential to also evaluate the potential risks associated with this new technology. Among the ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH
Genomics-Assisted Crop Improvement

Genomics research has great potential to revolutionize the discipline of plant breeding in order to realize the future needs of an ever growing human population. Several high-throughput approaches, genomics platforms and strategies are currently available for applying genomics to crop breeding. However, high ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH
Plant Breeding and Agrarian Research in Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institutes 1933-1945

The book offers a history of the agricultural sciences in Nazi Germany. It analyzes scientific practice under the Nazi regime, Nazi agricultural policy and autarkic strategies as well as expansion policy in Eastern Europe. It also offers new insights into the Auschwitz concentration camp. It outlines the Nazi’s comprehensive nutritional and agricultural research program intended to prepare ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH
Biological Nitrogen Fixation: Towards Poverty Alleviation through Sustainable Agriculture

. The roles of, and advances in, plant breeding, plant molecular biology, nodule physiology, and symbiotic ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH
Fodder Crops and Amenity Grasses

and Amenity Grasses, fifth volume in the series, Handbook of Plant Breeding, covers all these aspects. Most ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

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