Book Description Plants have been successfully selectively bred for thousands of years, culminating in incredible yields, quality, resistance and so on that we see in our modern day crops and ornamental plants. In recent years the techniques used have been rapidly advanced and refined to include molecular, cell and genetic techniques.
An Introduction to Plant Breeding provides comprehensive coverage of the whole area of plant breeding. Covering modes of reproduction in plants, breeding objectives and schemes, genetics, predictions, selection, alternative techniques and practical considerations. Each chapter is carefully laid out in a student friendly way and includes questions for the reader. The book is essential reading for all those studying, teaching and researching plant breeding.
Review
?My overall impression is quite positive of this new volume, and I would not hesitate to recommend it to my beginning students who wish to have a companion textbook to our principles course.?( The Quarterly Review of Biology , 2009)
?Brown and Caligari have drawn on their considerable expertise in plant breeding to write this concise, yet thorough, book. This book moves beyond the typical by the inclusion of current molecular topics used in modern breeding, including the use of genetic markers ? and a balanced examination of the use of this technology. The authors begin with a good historical overview of plant breeding, which serves to put in context the central themes presented throughout the book. Essential.? Choice
From the Back Cover
Plants have been successfully selectively bred for thousands of years, culminating in incredible yields, quality, and pest resistance and so on that we see in our modern day crops and ornamental plants. In recent years the techniques used have been rapidly advanced and refined to include molecular, cell and genetic techniques.
An Introduction to Plant Breeding has been carefully compiled by the authors, who have between them many years’ experience as plant breeders, and as teachers on undergraduate and postgraduate courses in plant breeders, and as teachers on undergraduate and postgraduate course in plant sciences and plant breeding. Each chapter is carefully laid out in a student friendly way and includes questions for the reader. The book is essential reading for all those studying, teaching and researching plant breeding. This important publication provides comprehensive coverage of the whole are of plant breeding. Subjects covered include: modes of reproduction in plants, breeding objectives and schemes, genetics, predictions, selection, alternative techniques and practical considerations. Each chapter is carefully laid out in a student friendly way and includes questions for the reader.
An Introduction to Plant Breeding has been designed to serve as a core text for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in plant breeding, plant sciences and agricultural sciences. It is essential reading for plant breeders and for all those researching and teaching in these subject areas. All universities and research establishments where plant sciences and agricultural sciences are studied and taught should have several copies of this book on their shelves.
About the Author
Jack Brown is Professor of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Department of Plant Soil and Entomological Sciences, University of Idaho, USA.
Peter Caligari is Director of the Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, University of Talca, Chile.
