Plant Breeding Reviews, Volume 24, Part 2

Long-Term Selection: Crops, Animals, and Bacteria
Herausgeber: Janick, Jules

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Volume 24 edition
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 655g
• ISBN-13: 9780471468929
• ISBN-10: 0471468924
• Artikelnr.: 21531553

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Contributors.
Preface.
CROPS.
1. Crop Domestication as a Long-term Selection Experiment (Paul Gepts).
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 Breeding Program (D.N.
Duvick, et al.).
5. Long-term Divergent Selection for Ear Length in Maize (Arnel R.
Hallauer, et al.).
ANIMALS.
6. Inferences on the Genetic of Quantitative Traits from Long-term
Selection in Laboratory and Domestic Animals (William G. Hill and Lutz
Bünger).
7. Long-term Selection for Pupal Weight in Tribolium castaneum (W.M. Muir,
et al.).
BACTERIA.
8. Phenotypic and Genomic Evolution during a 20,000-Generation Experiment
with the Bacterium Escherichia coli (Richard E. Lenski).
Subject Index.
Cumulative Subject Index.
Cumulative Contributor Index.