Plant Breeding Reviews, Volume 24, Part 1 (eBook, PDF)

Long-term Selection: Maize
Redaktion: Janick, Jules

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470650233
• Artikelnr.: 38211124

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Contributors.
Preface (Kendall R. Lamkey).
1. Dedication John W. Dudley: The Man and His Work (Rita Hogan Mumm).
PERSPECTIVE AND BACKGROUND.
2. Genes and Selection: Retrospect and Prospect (George P. Rédei).
3. Champaign Country, Illinois, and the Origin of Hybrid Corn (A Forrest
Troyer).
THE ILLINOIS LONG-TERM SELECTION EXPERIMENT.
4. The Intellectual Legacy of the Illinois Long-term Selection Experiment
(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-term Selection
Protein Stains (V. Mikkilineni and T.R. Rocheford).
7. Physiological Changes Accompanying Long-term Selection for Grain Protein
in Maize (F.E. Below, et al.).
8. Single Kernel Selection for Increased Grain Oils in Maize Synthetics and
High-oil Hybrid Development (R.J. Lambert, et al.).
BIOLOGICAL AND THEORETICAL MODELS.
9. Population- and Quantitative-Genetic Models of Selection Limits (Bruce
Walsh).
10. Mutational Variation and Long-term Selection Response (Peter D.
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 (Jack C.M.
Dekkers and Petek Settar).
Subject Index.
Cumulative Subject Index.
Cumulative Contributor Index.