Buch, Englisch, 550 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 1405 g
Reihe: Plant Breeding
Principles and prospects
Buch, Englisch, 550 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 1405 g
Reihe: Plant Breeding
ISBN: 978-0-412-43390-0
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Our requirement for plant breeders to be successful has never been greater. However one views the forecasted numbers for future population growth we will need, in the immediate future, to be feeding, clothing and housing many more people than we do, inadequately, at present. Plant breeding represents the most valuable strategy in increasing our productivity in a way that is sustainable and environmentally sensitive. Plant breeding can rightly be considered as one of the oldest multidisciplinary subjects that is known to humans. It was practised by people who first started to carry out a settled form of agriculture. The art, as it must have been at that stage, was applied without any formal underlying framework, but achieved dramatic results, as witnessed by the forms of cultivated plants we have today. We are now learning how to apply successfully the results of yet imperfect scientific knowledge. This knowledge is, however, rapidly developing, particularly in areas of tissue culture,biotechnology and molecular biology. Plant breeding's inherent multifaceted nature means that alongside obvious subject areas like genetics we also need to consider areas such as: statistics, physiology, plant pathology, entomology, biochemistry, weed science, quality, seed characteristics, repro ductive biology, trial design, selection and computing. It therefore seems apparent that modern plant breeders need to have a grasp of wide range of scientific knowledge and expertise if they are successfully to a exploit the techniques, protocols and strategies which are open to them.
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Weitere Infos & Material
One Introduction.- Two Genetic Systems and Population Structure.- 1 Genetic systems, recombination and variability.- 2 Population structure and variability.- Three Sources of Variation.- 3 Plant genetic resources.- 4 Induced mutations.- 5 Interspecific hybridization by sexual means.- 6 Chromosome manipulation and polyploidy.- 7 Somatic hybridization.- 8 Gene cloning and identification.- 9 Gene transfer to plants: approaches and available techniques.- 10 The role of gene technology in plant breeding.- Four Assessment of Variation.- 11 Biometrical genetics in breeding.- 12 Biochemical characterization of populations.- Five Manipulation of Genetic Systems.- 13 Self- and cross-incompatibility systems.- 14 Male sterility.- 15 Apomixis.- 16 Micropropagation and somatic embryogenesis.- 17 Andro- and parthenogenesis.- Six Selection Methods.- 18 Selection strategies and choice of breeding methods.- 19 Marker-assisted selection.- 20 Gametophytic and sporophytic selection.- 21 In vitro selection.- Seven Adaptation.- 22 Genotype × environment interaction and adaptation.- 23 Augmenting yield-based selection.- 24 Resistance to abiotic stresses.- 25 Resistance to parasites.- Eight Specific Trait Breeding.- 26 Breeding for improved symbiotic nitrogen fixation.- 27 Photosynthetic and respiratory efficiency.- 28 Breeding for efficient root systems.- 29 On the utilization of renewable plant resources.- Nine Epilogue.- 30 The need for a comprehensive plant breeding strategy.- Species Index.
