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Book Synopsis
This text presents a theory for utilizing diploid and functionally diploid species in applying Mendelian genetics to improve genetic material in plant breeding programmes. It should be useful reading to students of quantitative genetics and professionals in plant or animal breeding.

Table of Contents
Preface.

1. Introduction.

2. Genetic Background.

3. Breeding Programs.

4. Comparisons of Breeding Procedures.

5. Responses to Artificial Selection.

6. Mass Selection.

7. Mass Selection-Assumptions and Validity of Theory.

8. Progeny Test and Family Systems of Recurrent Selection.

9. Selection for Performance in Crossbreds.

10. The Variance, ó²(X), of the Selection Criterion.

11. Effective Population Size in Recurrent Selection Programs.

12. Choice of the Selection Criterion.

13. The Design of Breeding Programs.

14. Comparison of Selection Systems.

15. Methods in Quantitative Genetics.

16. Looking Ahead.

17. Appendixes.

Notes.

References.

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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 05/02/1996
      ISBN13: 9780813820118, 978-0813820118
      ISBN10: 0813820111

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This text presents a theory for utilizing diploid and functionally diploid species in applying Mendelian genetics to improve genetic material in plant breeding programmes. It should be useful reading to students of quantitative genetics and professionals in plant or animal breeding.

      Table of Contents
      Preface.

      1. Introduction.

      2. Genetic Background.

      3. Breeding Programs.

      4. Comparisons of Breeding Procedures.

      5. Responses to Artificial Selection.

      6. Mass Selection.

      7. Mass Selection-Assumptions and Validity of Theory.

      8. Progeny Test and Family Systems of Recurrent Selection.

      9. Selection for Performance in Crossbreds.

      10. The Variance, ó²(X), of the Selection Criterion.

      11. Effective Population Size in Recurrent Selection Programs.

      12. Choice of the Selection Criterion.

      13. The Design of Breeding Programs.

      14. Comparison of Selection Systems.

      15. Methods in Quantitative Genetics.

      16. Looking Ahead.

      17. Appendixes.

      Notes.

      References.

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