Janick Plant Breeding Reviews, Volume 24, Part 2

Long-term Selection: Crops, Animals, and Bacteria
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-470-65025-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 24, 304 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Plant Breeding Reviews

Plant Breeding Reviews, Volume 24, Part 2 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.
CROPS.
1. Crop Domestication as a Long-term Selection Experiment (PaulGepts).
2. Long-term Selection in Plants in the Developing World (J.W.Miles and S. Pandey).
3. Trends in Productivity of U.S. Crops and Long-term Selection(William F. Tracy, et al.).
4. Long-term Selection in a Commercial Hybrid Maize BreedingProgram (D.N. Duvick, et al.).
5. Long-term Divergent Selection for Ear Length in Maize (ArnelR. Hallauer, et al.).
ANIMALS.
6. Inferences on the Genetic of Quantitative Traits fromLong-term Selection in Laboratory and Domestic Animals (William G.Hill and Lutz Bünger).
7. Long-term Selection for Pupal Weight in Triboliumcastaneum (W.M. Muir, et al.).
BACTERIA.
8. Phenotypic and Genomic Evolution during a 20,000-GenerationExperiment with the Bacterium Escherichia coli (Richard E.Lenski).
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.