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Quantitative genetics and selection in plant breeding / Gunter Wricke, W. Eberhard Weber.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wricke, Günter, 1928-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Plant breeding.
- Crops--Genetics.
- Crops.
- Selection (Plant breeding).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (420 p.)
- Edition:
- Reprint 2010
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, 1986.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Quantitative Genetics and Selection in Plant Breeding
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- 1. Basic population genetics
- 2. Quantitative genetics
- 3. Covariances between relatives
- 4. Estimation of genetic variances and covariances from experiments
- 5. Basic concepts of selection
- 6. Selection between clones and homozygous lines
- 7. Selection in cross-fertilizing crops - population improvement
- 8. Synthetic varieties
- 9. Hybrid varieties
- 10. Selection in segregating generations of self-fertilizing crops
- 11. Selection in autotetraploids
- 12. Selection for several characters
- 13. Selection progress and selection limits
- Appendix
- References
- Author index
- Subject index
- Backmatter
- Notes:
- Includes indexes.
- Bibliography: p. [385]-395.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Sep 2019)
- ISBN:
- 9783110837520
- 3110837528
- OCLC:
- 843635096
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