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Plant breeding reviews. volume 40 /

Plant Breeding Reviews presents state-of-the-art reviews on plant genetics and the breeding of all types of crops by both traditional means and molecular methods. Many of the crops widely grown today stem from a very narrow genetic base; understanding and preserving crop genetic resources is vital t...

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Corporate Authors: Wiley InterScience (Online service)
Group Author: Janick, Jules, 1931- (Editor)
Published: Wiley-Blackwell,
Publisher Address: Hoboken, New Jersey :
Publication Dates: 2016.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Plant breeding.
SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Botany.
Electronic books.
Online Access: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781119279723
Summary: Plant Breeding Reviews presents state-of-the-art reviews on plant genetics and the breeding of all types of crops by both traditional means and molecular methods. Many of the crops widely grown today stem from a very narrow genetic base; understanding and preserving crop genetic resources is vital to the security of food systems worldwide. The emphasis of the series is on methodology, a fundamental understanding of crop genetics, and applications to major crops.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN: 9781119279723
1119279720
Index Number: SB123
CLC: S33
Contents: James L. Brewbaker: Distinguished Geneticist, Tropical Plant Breeder, Inspiring Teacher / Ganesan Srinivasan, Jules Janick -- Breeding Leucaena: Tropical Multipurpose Leguminous Tree / James L Brewbaker -- Maize Doubled Haploids / Zhixin Liu, Yanbo Wang, Jiaojiao Ren, Mei Mei, Ursula K Frei, Benjamin Trampe, Thomas Lbberstedt -- Nitrogen and Phosphorus Use Efficiencies in Wheat: Physiology, Phenotyping, Genetics, and Breeding / Harindra S Balyan, Vijay Gahlaut, Anuj Kumar, Vandana Jaiswal, Raman Dhariwal, Sandhya Tyagi, Priyanka Agarwal, Supriya Kumari, Pushpendra K Gupta -- Interspecific Periclinal Chimeras as a Strategy for Cultivar Development / Nagib A Nassar, Nayra N Bomfim Fernandes, Danielle Y Hashimoto Freitas, Thomas M Gradziel -- Open Source Plant Breeding and the Open Source Seed Initiative / Claire H Luby, Jack R Kloppenburg, Irwin L Goldman -- Rapid Cycle Breeding: Application of Transgenic Early Flowering for Perennial Trees / Ann M Callahan, Chinnathambi Srinivasan, Chris Dardick, Ralph Scorza.

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