Methods of Plant Breeding / Herbert Kendall Hayes Professor Emeritus of Agronomy and Plant Genetics College of Agriculture, University of Minnesota, Forrest Rhinehart Immer Late Professor of Agronomy and Plant Genetics College of Agriculture, University of Minnesota, David Clyde Smith Professor of Agronomy College of Agriculture, University of Wisconsin..

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hayes, Herbert Kendall, 1884-1972.

Immer, Forrest Rhinehart, 1899- author.

Smith, David Clyde, 1905-1984, author.

Contributor:

Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

McGraw-Hill publications in the agricultural sciences

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plant breeding.

Genetics.

Penn Provenance:

Blank, Fritz (donor)

Corbett, James T. (previous owner)

Physical Description:

xi, [1], 551, [3] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

Second Edition

Place of Publication:

New York : McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., [1955]

Contents:

Preface to the First Edition

Preface to the Second Edition

1. The Role of Plant Breeding

2. The Genetic and Cytogenetic Basis of Plant Breeding

3. Heterosis

4. Mode of Reproduction in Relation to Breeding Methods

5. Techniques in Selfing and Crossing

6. The Pure-line Method of Breeding Naturally Self-pollinated Plants

7. Hybridization as a Method of Improving Self-fertilized Plants

8. The Backcross Method of Plant Breeding

9. Breeding for Disease Resistance

10. Breeding for Insect Resistance

11. Special Techniques

12. Inheritance in Small Grains and Flax

13. Cotton and Sorghum Breeding

14. Development of Methods of Corn Breeding

15. Inheritance in Maize

16. Forage-crop Improvement

17. Breeding Other Cross-pollinated Plants

18. Seed Production

19. Some Commonly Used Measures of Type and Variability

20. Correlation and Regression in Relation to Plant Breeding

21. Chi-square Tests

22. Field-plot Technique

23. Experimental Designs and Statistical Methods for Simple Plant-breeding Experiments

24. Heritability.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 497-518) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.

Kislak copy has names of previous owners lined out and "James T. Corbett" written in ms. on front free endpaper.

OCLC:

967343