Description
Book SynopsisPresents state-of-the-art overviews on topics relating to the breeding of agriculturally and horticulturally important plants. This text monitors developments in plant breeding research and covers major field crops, horticultural crops and specialities such as mushrooms and nuts.
Table of ContentsDedication: Donald N. Duvick, Maize Breeder, Geneticist, andAdministrator (A. Hallauer).
Comparative Mapping of Plant Phenotypes (A. Paterson).
Plant Antifungal Proteins (D.-J.
Yun, et al.).
Competitive Ability and Plant Breeding (D. Fasoula & V.Fasoula).
Recurrent Selection Methods Based on Evaluation-cum-RecombinationBlock (S. Vasal, et al.).
Utilization of Exotic Maize Germplasm (J. Parra & A.Hallauer).
History, Genetics, and Breeding of Supersweet (shrunken2) SweetCorn (W. Tracy).
Breeding Wild Rice (A. Grombacher, et al.).
Plantain Improvement (D. Vuylsteke, et al.).
Chrysanthemum Systematics, Genetics, and Breeding (M. Boase, etal.).
Indexes.
