
Horticultural Plant Breeding
Resources
Description
Key Features
- Provides a complete and comprehensive resource for those involved in the development of new cultivars or clones of horticultural crops
- Guides readers to the most appropriate breeding strategy including potential integration of traditional and biotechnology strategies that will best achieve a cost-effective outcome
- Will include access to 20 narrated slide sets to facilitate additional understanding
Readership
Upper level undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate students, professional practitioners
Table of Contents
Section 1. Elements and Underpinnings of Plant Breeding
Introduction to Section 1
1. Introduction
2. The Context of Plant Breeding
3. Review of Genetics (From the Perspective of a Plant Breeder)
4. Engineered Population Structures
5. Mass Selection and the Basic Plant Breeding Algorithm
6. Breeding Objectives
7. Germplasm and Genetic Variability
8. Enhancement of Germplasm
9. Improvement of Selection Effectiveness
10. Natural Mating Systems and Controlled Mating
11. Cultivar Testing and Seed Production
12. Protection of Proprietary Plant GermplasmSection 2. Breeding Methods
Introduction to Section 2
13. The Pedigree Method
14. Other Breeding Methods for Self Pollinated Plant Species
15. Breeding Methods for Outcrossing Plant Species: I. History of Corn Breeding and Open Pollinated Populations
16. Breeding Methods for Outcrossing Plant Species: II. Hybrid Cultivars
17. Breeding Methods for Outcrossing Plant Species: III. Asexual Propagation
18. The Backcross Method
19. Breeding for Disease and Insect Resistance
Product details
- No. of pages: 410
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2019
- Published: November 20, 2019
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128153963
- eBook ISBN: 9780128155707