Selection Methods in Plant Breeding (Plant Breeding Series) - Hardcover

Bos, Izak; Caligari, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0412553309 ISBN 13: 9780412553301

Verlag: Springer, 1995

Inhaltsangabe

Our requirement for plant breeders to be successful has never been greater. However one views the forecasted numbers for future population growth we will need, in the immediate future, to be feeding, clothing and housing many more people than we do, inadequately, at present. Plant breeding represents the most valuable strategy in increasing our productivity in a way that is sustainable and environmentally sensitive. Plant breeding can rightly be considered as one of the oldest multidisciplin­ ary subjects that is known to humans. It was practised by people who first started to carry out a settled form of agriculture. The art, as it must have been at that stage, was applied without any formal underlying framework, but achieved dramatic results, as witnessed by the forms of cultivated plants we have today. We are now learning how to apply successfully the results of yet imperfect scientific knowledge. This knowledge is, however, rapidly develop­ ing, particularly in areas of tissue culture, biotechnology and molecular biology. Plant breeding's inherent multifaceted nature means that alongside obvious subject areas like genetics we also need to consider areas such as: statistics, physiology, plant pathology, entomology, biochemistry, weed science, quality, seed characteristics, reproductive biology, trial design, se­ lection and computing.

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Peter Caligari is Professor and Head of Agricultural Botany at the University of Reading, UK.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Springer
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0412553309
• ISBN 13: 9780412553301
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 357
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