Plant breeding : classical to modern /
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Author / Creator: | Priyadarshan, P. M., author. |
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Imprint: | Singapore : Springer, 2019. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xxiii, 570 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11997415 |
ISBN: | 9789811370953 9811370958 9789811370946 981137094X |
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references. Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed November 11, 2019). |
Summary: | This book offers a detailed overview of both conventional and modern approaches to plant breeding. In 25 chapters, it explores various aspects of conventional and modern means of plant breeding, including: history, objective, activities, centres of origin, plant introduction, reproduction, incompatibility, sterility, biometrics, selection, hybridization, methods of breeding both self- and cross- pollinated crops, heterosis, synthetic varieties, induced mutations and polyploidy, distant hybridization, quality breeding, ideotype breeding, resistance breeding, breeding for stress resistance, G x E interactions, tissue culture, genetic engineering, molecular breeding, genomics, gene action and varietal release. The book's content addresses the needs of students worldwide. Modern methods like molecular breeding and genomics are dealt with extensively so as to provide a firm foundation and equip readers to read further advanced books. Each chapter discusses the respective subject as comprehensively as possible, and includes a section on further reading at the end. Info-boxes highlight the latest advances, and care has been taken to include nearly all topics required under the curricula of MS programs. As such, the book provides a much-needed reference guide for MS students around the globe. |
Other form: | Print version: 981137094X 9789811370946 |
Standard no.: | 10.1007/978-981-13-7095-3 |
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