
Plant Breeding and Cultivar Development
Description
Key Features
- Bridges the gap between conventional breeding practices and state-of-the-art technologies
- Provides real-world case studies of a wide range of plant breeding techniques and practices
- Combines insights from genetics, genomics, breeding science, statistics, computer science and engineering for crop improvement and cultivar development
Readership
Plant breeders globally in universities, government institutions, private companies
Table of Contents
1. Plant Breeding - Past, Present, and Future Perspectives
2. Mode of Reproduction in Crop Plants
3. Genetics in Relation to Plant Breeding
4. Primer on Population and Quantitative Genetics
5. Plant Genetic Resources
6. Wilde Hybridization
7. Haploids and Polyploidy
8. Hybridization and Selection in Self-Pollinated Crops
9. Mass and Pure Line Selection
10. Bulk Method
11. Pedigree Method
12. Single Seed Descent Method
13. Backcross Method
14. Mutation Breeding
15. Inbreeding Depression and Heterosis
16. Population Improvement
17. Recurrent Selection in Self-pollinated Crops
18. Synthetic and Composite Varieties
19. Hybrid Varieties
20. Breeding Methods Used in Asexual Crops
21. Breeding for Resistance to Abiotic Stresses
22. Breeding for Resistance to Biotic Stresses
23. Intellectual Property Rights and Protection
24. Participatory Plant Breeding
25. Breeding of Crop Ideotypes
26. Field Plot Designs in Plant Breeding
27. Molecular Tools in Crop Improvement and Cultivar Development
28. Phenomics and Machine Learning in Crop Improvement
Product details
- No. of pages: 662
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2021
- Published: January 21, 2021
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128175637
- eBook ISBN: 9780128175644
About the Authors
D. P. Singh
Affiliations and Expertise
A. K. Singh
Affiliations and Expertise
A. Singh
Affiliations and Expertise
Ratings and Reviews
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Jiaoping Tue May 25 2021
a book with broad scope on plant breeding
The recent development of new techniques in plant breeding and genetics urged a book with content up to date. I found this is the right one, and highly recommend it as a tool- or text-book of plant breeding. It is a great book for students to gain basic knowledge about crop breeding and improvement, such as how to initial a breeding program, advance generations, and make selection. It also contains how to handle data from breeding trials, and make decision. In addition, this book inspires the readers with the great opportunity of crop improvement through leveraging the cutting-edge techniques like machine learning and high throughput phenotyping.
Julio S. Tue Apr 06 2021
Dr.
In my experience, few books have adequately demonstrated the practical part of plant breeding. In this book, Singh et al. gave a new and fresh view of crop improvement by the introduction of real examples from the dilated breeder experience of the authors. It doesn't matter if you are starting in plant breeding or you have experience in the field, the book will not disappoint you at all.
Tetsuya Y. Tue Feb 16 2021
Integrated literature on plant breeding
This book is a great work for plant breeders and related scientists, with a wide range of interesting topics in a well-organized way. I am pleased to have this integrated literature on plant breeding for my research and reference in soybean breeding!