Breeding field crops
David Allen Sleper, John Milton Poehlman.
5th ed.
Ames, Iowa : Blackwell Pub., 2006.
viii, 424 págs. : ilustraciones ; 26 cm.
ISBN: 0813824281
Rev. ed. de: Breeding field crops / John Milton Poehlman, David Allen Sleper. 4th ed. 1995.
Contenido
- I. What is plant breeding?: 1. Plant breeders and their work
- II. The genetic basis of plant breeding: 2. Reproduction in crop plants
- 3. Gene recombination in plant breeding
- 4. Quantitative inheritance in plant breeding
- III. Tools of the plant breeder: 5. Variations in chromosome number
- 6. Mutation
- 7. Fertility-regulating mechanisms and their manipulation
- 8. Biotechnology and plant breeding
- IV. 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
- V. Germplasm resources for breeding crop plants: 13. Germplasm resources and conservation
- VI. Applications: Breeding field crops that are self-pollinated: 14. Breeding wheat.
