Genetics And Plant Breeding
Of all the sciences that contribute to the great, tertiary composite which is known as agriculture none is more important economically than genetics. The science which underlies the improvement of plants and animals for agricultural purposes is destined to receive increasing attention in agricultural education and in agricultural practice. Without doubt vast possibilities await realization through the more thorough and systematic development of our living economic resources. Such development is directly dependent upon the successful utilization of genetic principles in plant and animal breeding. This text has been prepared in response to a real and widely recognized need. The experience of the authors in teaching the principles of breeding to undergraduate students has forced home the conviction that an adequate presentation in a single text of the facts and principles of genetics and their practical applications is a prime necessity.
Babcock EB
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Table of Contents..
PART I: FUNDAMENTALS
A. Introduction
- Scope, methods, and applications of genetics
B. Physical basis
- Development
- Reproduction
C. Heredity
- Mendelian method
- Segregation
- Mendelian conceptions
- Sex linkage or heterosomal inheritance
- Heterozygous expressions
- Lethal factors
- Multiple allelomorphism
- Sex-limited characters
- Independent assortment
- Factor interactions in development
- Linkage
- The organization of linkage groups
D. Variation
- Variation
- The statistics of variation
- Developmental variation
- Quantitative characters
- Pure lines and clones
- Selection
- Factor mutation
- Parallel variation
- Chromosomal variation
- Sectional variation
- The oenothera investigations
- Interspecific hybridization
PART II: PLANT BREEDING
- Introduction
- Varieties
- Chimeras
- Clonal selection
- Pure-line selection
- Selection in cross-fertilized plants
- The utilization of hybrid vigor
- Breeding new varieties by hybridization
- Breeding disease-resistant plants
- Plant-breeding methods
Book Details
Book Title:
Genetics And Plant Breeding
Genetics And Plant Breeding
Book Type:
TEXT-CUM-REFERENCES BOOK
TEXT-CUM-REFERENCES BOOK
No Of Pages:
488
488
Color Pages :
0
0
Color Pages :
0
0
Book Size:
AMERICAN ROYAL (6X9)
AMERICAN ROYAL (6X9)
Weight:
950 Gms
950 Gms
Copyright Holder:
All Rights Reserved
All Rights Reserved
Imprint:
M/s AGROBIOS (INDIA)
M/s AGROBIOS (INDIA)
Readership:
PG STUDENTS | SCIENTISTS AND RESEARCHERS | UG STUDENTS |
PG STUDENTS | SCIENTISTS AND RESEARCHERS | UG STUDENTS |