Plant breeding / Jack Brown, Peter D. S. Caligari, Hugo A. Campos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Jack, 1955- author.

Caligari, P. D. S. (Peter D. S.), author.

Campos, Hugo A., 1968- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plant breeding.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 p.)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, England : Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book, Plant Breeding, has it bases in an earlier text entitled An Introduction to Plant Breeding by Jack Brown and Peter Caligari, first published in 2008. The challenges facing today's plant breeders have never been more overwhelming, yet the prospects to contribute significantly to global food security and farmers' quality of life have never been more exciting and fulfilling. Despite this there has been a worrying decline in public funding for plant breeding-related research and support for international centers of germplasm development and crop improvement. In part, this has resul

Contents:

Cover; TItle Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; About the companion website; Chapter 1 Introduction; 1.1 Requirements of plant breeders; 1.2 Evolution of crop species; 1.2.1 Why did hunter-gatherers become farmers?; 1.2.2 What crops were involved? And when did they arise?; 1.3 Natural and human selection; 1.4 Contribution of modern plant breeders; Think questions; Chapter 2 Modes of Reproduction and Types of Cultivar; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Modes of reproduction; 2.2.1 Sexual reproduction; 2.2.2 Asexual reproduction; 2.3 Types of cultivar; 2.3.1 Pure-line cultivars

2.3.2 Open-pollinated cultivars2.3.3 Hybrid cultivars; 2.3.4 Clonal cultivars; 2.3.5 Synthetic cultivars; 2.3.6 Multiline cultivars; 2.3.7 Composite-cross cultivars; 2.4 Annuals and perennials; 2.5 Reproductive sterility; Think questions; Chapter 3 Breeding Objectives; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 People, politics and economic criteria; 3.3 Grower profitability; 3.3.1 Increasing harvestable yield; 3.3.2 Selection for yield increase; 3.4 Increasing end-use quality; 3.4.1 Testing for end-use quality; 3.5 Increasing pest and disease resistance; 3.6 Types of plant resistance

3.7 Mechanisms for disease resistance3.8 Testing plant resistance; 3.9 Conclusions; Think questions; Chapter 4 Breeding Schemes; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Development of pure-line cultivars; 4.2.1 Homozygosity; 4.2.2 Breeding schemes for pure-line cultivars; 4.2.3 Number of segregating families and selections; 4.2.4 Seed increases for cultivar release; 4.3 Developing multiline cultivars; 4.3.1 Backcrossing; 4.4 Development of open-pollinated population cultivars; 4.4.1 Breeding schemes for open-pollinating population cultivars; 4.4.2 Backcrossing in open-pollinated population cultivar development

4.5 Developing synthetic cultivars4.5.1 Seed production of a synthetic cultivar; 4.6 Developing hybrid cultivars; 4.6.1 Heterosis; 4.6.2 Types of hybrid; 4.6.3 Breeding system for F1 hybrid cultivars; 4.6.4 Backcrossing in hybrid cultivar development; 4.6.5 Hybrid seed production and cultivar release; 4.7 Development of clonal cultivars; 4.7.1 Outline of a potato breeding scheme; 4.7.2 Time to develop clonal cultivars; 4.7.3 Sexual reproduction in clonal crops; 4.7.4 Maintaining disease-free parental lines and breeding selections; 4.7.5 Seed increase of clonal cultivars

4.8 Developing apomictic cultivars4.9 Summary; Think questions; Chapter 5 Genetics and Plant Breeding; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Qualitative genetics; 5.2.1 Genotype/phenotype relationships; 5.2.2 Segregation of qualitative genes in diploid species; 5.2.3 Qualitative loci linkage; 5.2.4 Pleiotropy; 5.2.5 Epistasis; 5.2.6 Qualitative inheritance in tetraploid species; 5.2.7 The chi-square test; 5.2.8 Family size necessary in qualitative genetic studies; 5.3 Quantitative genetics; 5.3.1 The basis of continuous variation; 5.3.2 Describing continuous variation

5.3.3 Relating quantitative genetics and the normal distribution

Notes:

"First edition published 2008 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781118873526

1118873521

9780470658291

0470658290

9781118873519

1118873513

OCLC:

875771282