Principles of plant genetics and breeding
Publisher: Chichester: Wiley Blackwell, 2020Edition: 3rd edDescription: xxiviii, 813pSubject(s): Plant breeding | Plant geneticsAdditional physical formats: Print version :: No titleDDC classification: 631.523Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
<p>DEDICATION</p> <p>PREFACE</p> <p>ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS</p> <p>INDUSTRY HIGHLIGHTS BOXES</p> <p>INDUSTRY HIGHLIGHTS BOXES: AUTHORS</p> <p><b>SECTION 1: OVERVIEW AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES</b></p> <p><b>CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION</b></p> <p>1.1 What is plant breeding?</p> <p>1.2 The goals of plant breeding</p> <p>1.3 The concept of genetic manipulations of plant attributes</p> <p>1.4 Why breed plants?</p> <p>1.5 Overview of the basic steps in plant breeding</p> <p>1.6 How have plant breeding objectives changed over the years</p> <p>1.7 The art and science of plant breeding</p> <p>1.8 Training of plant breeders</p> <p>1.9 The plant breeding industry</p> <p>1.10 Duration and cost of plant breeding programs</p> <p>1.11 The future of plant breeding in society</p> <p>1.12 The organization of the book</p> <p><b>CHAPTER 2 HISTORY OF PLANT BREEDING</b></p> <p>2.1 Origins of agriculture and plant breeding</p> <p>2.2 The “Unknown Breeder”</p> <p>2.3 Plant manipulation efforts by early civilizations</p> <p>2.4 Early pioneers of the theories and practices of modern plant breeding</p> <p>2.5 Later pioneers and trailblazers</p> <p>2.6 History of plant breeding technologies/techniques</p> <p>2.7 Genome-wide approaches to crop improvement</p> <p>2.8 Bioinformatics and OMICs technologies in crop improvement</p> <p>2.9 Summary of changes in plant breeding over the last half century</p> <p>2.10 Achievement of modern plant breeders</p> <p><b>SECTION 2 POULATION AND QUANTITAVTIVE GENETIC PRINCIPLES </b></p> <p><b>CHAPTER 3 INTRODUCTION TO CONCEPTS OF POPULATION GENETICS</b></p> <p>3.1 Concepts of a population and gene pool</p> <p>3.2 Issues arising from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium</p> <p>3.3 Factors affecting changes in gene frequency</p> <p>3.4 Frequency dependent selection</p> <p>3.5 Summary of key plant breeding applications</p> <p>3.6 Modes of selection</p> <p>3.7 Effect of mating system on selection</p> <p>3.8 The concept of inbreeding</p> <p>3.9 Inbreeding and its implications in plant breeding</p> <p>3.10 Concept of population improvement</p> <p>3.11 Types of open pollenated populations</p> <p><b>CHAPTER 4 INTRODUCTION TO QUANTITATIVE GENETICS</b></p> <p>4.1 What is quantitative genetics?</p> <p>4.2 What is a quantitative trait?</p> <p>4.3 Qualitative genetics versus quantitative genetics</p> <p>4.4 The environment and quantitative variation</p> <p>4.5 Polygenes and polygenic inheritance</p> <p>4.6 Decision-making in breeding based on biometrical genetics</p> <p>4.7 Gene action</p> <p>4.8 Gene action and plant breeding</p> <p>4.9 Variance components of a quantitative trait</p> <p>4.10 The concept of heritability</p> <p>4.11 Response to selection in breeding</p> <p>4.12 Concept of correlated response</p> <p>4.13 Selection for multiple traits</p> <p>4.14 Concept of intuitive index</p> <p>4.15 The concept of general worth</p> <p>4.16 Nature of breeding characteristics and their levels of expression</p> <p>4.17 Early generation testing</p> <p>4.18 Concept of combining ability</p> <p>4.19 Mating designs</p> <p>4.20 The genetic architecture of quantitative traits</p> <p>4.21 The effect of QTL on phenotype</p> <p>4.22 Molecular basis of quantitative variation</p> <p>4.23 Systems genetics</p> <p>4.24 Predicting breeding value</p> <p>4.25 Genomic selection (genome wide selection)</p> <p>4.26 Mapping quantitative traits</p> <p><b>SECTION 3 REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEMS</b></p> <p><b>CHAPTER 5 INTRODUCTION TO REPRODUCTION</b></p> <p>5.1 Importance of mode of reproduction to plant breeding</p> <p>5.2 Overview of reproductive options in plants</p> <p>5.3 Types of reproduction</p> <p>5.4 Sexual reproduction</p> <p>5.5 What is autogamy?</p> <p>5.6 Self incompatibility</p> <p>5.7 Male sterility</p> <p>5.8 Dichogamy</p> <p>5.9 Genetic and breeding implications of autogamy</p> <p>5.10 Genotype conversion programs</p> <p>5.11 What is allogamy?</p> <p>5.12 Artificial pollination control techniques</p> <p>5.13 Inbreeding depression</p> <p>5.14 Mendelian concepts relating to the reproductive system</p> <p>5.15 Complex inheritance</p> <p><b>CHAPTER 6 HYBRIDIZATION</b></p> <p>6.1 Concept of gene transfer and hybridization</p> <p>6.2 Application of crossing in plant breeding</p> <p>6.3 Artificial hybridization</p> <p>6.4 Artificial pollination control techniques</p> <p>6.5 Flower and flowering issues in hybridization</p> <p>6.6 Emasculation</p> <p>6.7 Pollination</p> <p>6.8 Number of F<sub>1</sub> crosses to make</p> <p>6.9 Genetic issues in hybridization</p> <p>6.10 Types of populations generated through hybridization</p> <p>611 Wide crosses</p> <p>6.12 Issue of reproductive isolation barriers</p> <p>6.13 Overcoming challenges of reproductive barriers</p> <p>6.14 Bridge crosses</p> <p>CHAPTER 7 CLONAL PROPAGATION AND <i>IN VITRO</i> CULTURE</p> <p>7.1 What is a clone?</p> <p>7.2 Clones, inbred lines, and pure lines</p> <p>7.3 Categories of clonally propagated species based on economic use</p> <p>7.4 Categories of clonally propagated species for breeding purposes</p> <p>7.5 Types of clonal propagation</p> <p>7.6 Importance of clonal propagation in plant breeding</p> <p>7.7 Breeding implications of clonal propagation</p> <p>7.8 Genetic issues in clonal breeding</p> <p>7.9 Breeding approaches used in clonal species</p> <p>7.10 Natural propagation</p> <p>7.11 <i>In vitro</i> culture</p> <p>7.12 Micropropagation</p> <p>7.13 Concept of totipotency</p> <p>7.14 Somaclonal variation</p> <p>7.15 Apomixis</p> <p>7.16 Other tissue culture applications</p> <p>7.17 Production of haploids</p> <p>7.18 Doubled haploids</p> <p>7.19 Germplasm preservation</p> <p><b>SECTION 4 GERMPLASM FOR BREEDING</b></p> <p><b>CHAPTER 8 VARIATION: TYPES, ORIGIN AND SCALE</b></p> <p>8.1 Classifying plants</p> <p>8.2 Rules of classification of plants</p> <p>8.3 Operational classification systems</p> <p>8.4 Types of variation among plants</p> <p>8.5. Origins of genetic variability</p> <p>8.6 Biotechnology for creating genetic variability</p> <p>8.7 Scale of variability</p> <p><b>CHAPTER 9 PLANT DOMESTICATION</b></p> <p>9.1 The concept of evolution</p> <p>9.2 What is domestication</p> <p>9.3 Evolution versus domestication</p> <p>9.4 Conscious selection versus unconscious selection</p> <p>9.5 Patterns of plant domestication</p> <p>9.6 Centers of plant domestication</p> <p>9.7 Roll call of domesticated plants</p> <p>9.8 Changes accompanying domestication</p> <p>9.9 Genetic bottleneck</p> <p>9.10 Tempo of domestication</p> <p>9.11 Genetic architecture and domestication</p> <p>9.12 Models of domestication</p> <p>9.13 Modern breeding is a continuation of the domestication process</p> <p><b>CHAPTER 10 PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES</b></p> <p>10.1 Importance of germplasm to plant breeding</p> <p>10.2 Centers of diversity in plant breeding</p> <p>10.3 Sources of germplasm for plant breeding</p> <p>10.4 Concept of genetic vulnerability</p> <p>10.5 What plant breeders can do to address crop vulnerability</p> <p>10.6 Wild (exotic) germplasm in plant breeding</p> <p>10.7 Plant genetic resources conservation</p> <p>10.8 Nature of cultivated plant genetic resources</p> <p>10.9 Approaches to germplasm conservation</p> <p>10.10 Germplasm collection</p> <p>10.11 Types of plant germplasm collection</p> <p>10.12 Managing plant genetic resources</p> <p>10.13 Issue of redundancy and the concept of core subsets</p> <p>10.14 Germplasm storage technologies</p> <p>10.15 Using gene
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