Breeding Field Crops (5th edition)

Hardback  448 pages, 289 illustrations.  ISBN 0813824281      £48.00

Breeding Field Crops, Fifth Edition, thoroughly covers the field of plant breeding. The latest edition of this venerable text provides a broad overview of the science of plant breeding, and provides students and breeders with essential fundamental information along with a review of current breakthroughs and technologies. This book will be a valuable source of information for anyone involved in the science of plant breeding for years to come.

Contents

Part 1. What Is Plant Breeding?

• 1. Plant Breeders and Their Work

Part 2. The Genetic Basis of Plant Breeding

• 2. Reproduction in Crop Plants
• 3. Gene Recombination in Plant Breeding
• 4. Quantitative Inheritance in Plant Breeding

Part 3. Tools of the Plant Breeder

• 5. Variations in Chromosome Number
• 6. Mutation
• 7. Fertility-Regulating Mechanisms and Their Manipulation
• 8. Biotechnology and Plant Breeding

Part 4. Methods in Plant Breeding

• 9. Breeding Self-Pollinated Crops
• 10. Breeding Cross-Pollinated and Clonally Propagated Crops
• 11. Breeding Hybrid Cultivars
• 12. Breeding Objectives and Techniques

Part 5. Germplasm Resources for Breeding Crop Plants

• 13. Germplasm Resources and Conservation

Part 6. Applications: Breeding Field Crops that are Self-Pollinated

• 14. Breeding Wheat
• 15. Breeding Rice
• 16. Breeding Soybean

Part 7. Applications: Field Crops Utilizing Hybrid Breeding Procedures

• 17. Breeding Corn (Maize)
• 18. Breeding Sorghum

Part 8. Applications: Field Crops with Miscellaneous Breeding Procedures

• 19. Breeding Cotton
• 20. Breeding Cross-Pollinated Forage Crops

Part 9. Applications: Field Crops that are Vegetatively Propagated

• 21. Breeding Potato
• 22. Breeding Sugarcane

Part 10. Maintenance and Seed Production of Improved Cultivars

• 23. Cultivar Increase, Maintenance, and Seed Production

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Index