Plant breeding : theory and practice /
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| Author / Creator: | Stoskopf, Neal C., 1934- |
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| Imprint: | Boulder : Westview Press, 1993. |
| Description: | xxi, 531 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1681559 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Plant Breeding: Historical Perspective
- 2. Reproduction in Plants
- 3. Genetic and Cytogenetic Structure of Plants
- 4. Genetic Variation in Plants
- 5. Statistical Applications and Field Plot Technique in Plant Breeding
- 6. Hybridization and Selection in Self- and Cross-pollinated Crops
- 7. Mass and Pure-line Selection
- 8. The Pedigree System
- 9. The Bulk Population Method
- 10. The Backcross Breeding Method
- 11. Single-Seed-Descent and Recurrent Selection Breeding Methods
- 12. Heterosis and Inbreeding in Cross-fertilized Crops
- 13. Selection Methods in Cross-fertilized Crops
- 14. Hybrid Development and Parental Selection
- 15. Synthetic Cultivars in Cross-fertilized Crops
- 16. Recurrent Selection in Cross-fertilized Crops
- 17. Interspeciflc and Intergeneric Hybridization
- 18. Mutation Breeding
- 19. Haploid Breeding Systems
- 20. Asexual Breeding Systems
- 21. Cell and Molecular Biology Tools for Plant Breeding
- 22. Commercial Hybrids in Self-fertilized Crops
- 23. Cultivar Release, Seed Certification and Multiplication, and Proprietary Protection.
