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Plant Breeding Reviews, Volume 24, Part 2
Long-term Selection: Crops, Animals, and BacteriaPlant Breeding Reviews, Band 66 1. Aufl.
314,99 € |
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Verlag: | Wiley |
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Veröffentl.: | 07.04.2010 |
ISBN/EAN: | 9780470650257 |
Sprache: | englisch |
Anzahl Seiten: | 304 |
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<i>Plant Breeding Reviews</i>, 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.
Contributors. <p>Preface.</p> <p>CROPS.</p> <p>1. Crop Domestication as a Long-term Selection Experiment (Paul Gepts).</p> <p>2. Long-term Selection in Plants in the Developing World (J.W. Miles and S. Pandey).</p> <p>3. Trends in Productivity of U.S. Crops and Long-term Selection (William F. Tracy, <i>et al.</i>).</p> <p>4. Long-term Selection in a Commercial Hybrid Maize Breeding Program (D.N. Duvick, <i>et al.</i>).</p> <p>5. Long-term Divergent Selection for Ear Length in Maize (Arnel R. Hallauer, <i>et al.</i>).</p> <p>ANIMALS.</p> <p>6. Inferences on the Genetic of Quantitative Traits from Long-term Selection in Laboratory and Domestic Animals (William G. Hill and Lutz Bünger).</p> <p>7. Long-term Selection for Pupal Weight in <i>Tribolium castaneum</i> (W.M. Muir, <i>et al.</i>).</p> <p>BACTERIA.</p> <p>8. Phenotypic and Genomic Evolution during a 20,000-Generation Experiment with the Bacterium <i>Escherichia coli</i> (Richard E. Lenski).</p> <p>Subject Index.</p> <p>Cumulative Subject Index.</p> <p>Cumulative Contributor Index.</p>
<b>Jules Janick</b> is the James Troop Distinguished Professor of Horticulture at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN, USA.