Janick Plant Breeding Reviews, Volume 24, Part 1

Long-term Selection: Maize
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-470-65023-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 24, 384 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Plant Breeding Reviews

Plant Breeding Reviews, Volume 24, Part 1 presents state-of-the-art reviews on plant genetics and the breeding of all types of crops by both traditional means and molecular methods. The emphasis of the series is on methodology, a practical understanding of crop genetics, and applications to major crops.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Janick, Jules

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contributors.
Preface (Kendall R. Lamkey).
1. Dedication John W. Dudley: The Man and His Work (Rita HoganMumm).
PERSPECTIVE AND BACKGROUND.
2. Genes and Selection: Retrospect and Prospect (George P.Rédei).
3. Champaign Country, Illinois, and the Origin of Hybrid Corn (AForrest Troyer).
THE ILLINOIS LONG-TERM SELECTION EXPERIMENT.
4. The Intellectual Legacy of the Illinois Long-term SelectionExperiment (Irwin L. Goldman).
5. 100 Generations of Selection for Oil and Protein in Corn(J.W. Dudley and R.J. Lambert).
6. RELP Variant Frequency Differences among Illinois Long-termSelection Protein Stains (V. Mikkilineni and T.R. Rocheford).
7. Physiological Changes Accompanying Long-term Selection forGrain Protein in Maize (F.E. Below, et al.).
8. Single Kernel Selection for Increased Grain Oils in MaizeSynthetics and High-oil Hybrid Development (R.J. Lambert, etal.).
BIOLOGICAL AND THEORETICAL MODELS.
9. Population- and Quantitative-Genetic Models of SelectionLimits (Bruce Walsh).
10. Mutational Variation and Long-term Selection Response (PeterD. Keightley).
11. Population Size and Long-term Selection (Kenneth Weber).
12. Gene Interaction and Selection (Charles J. Goodnight).
13. Marker-assisted Selection (Richard Johnson).
14. Long-term Selection with Known Quantitative Trait Loci (JackC.M. Dekkers and Petek Settar).
Subject Index.
Cumulative Subject Index.
Cumulative Contributor Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Jules Janick is the James Troop Distinguished Professor of Horticulture at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN, USA.