Plant Breeding Reviews, Volume 24, Part 2: Long-term Selection: Crops, Animals, and BacteriaJules Janick Plant Breeding Reviews, 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. |
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Part 2 Longterm Selection Crops Animals and Bacteria ANIMALS | 169 |
Part 2 Longterm Selection Crops Animals and Bacteria BACTERIA | 225 |
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Plant Breeding Reviews, Volume 24, Part 2: Long-term Selection: Crops ... Jules Janick No preview available - 2003 |
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adaptation alleles ancestor animals artificial selection average beneficial mutations body weight breeders breeding programs BSLEC0 Bünger cassava cell CIAT CIMMYT clones coli Colombia common bean Crop Sci cultivars cycle–1 cycles of selection decades developing world diversity DNA repair domestication Dummerstorf Duvick ear length effective population size effects environment estimates evolution evolving populations fitness genes genetic gain genetic improvement genome genotypes Gepts germplasm grain yield growth Hallauer heritability heterosis hybrids inbred inbred lines increased Iowa kernel Lenski long-term selection experiment maize maize breeding mass selection Mesoamerica mutation rate pearl millet Phaseolus phenotypic plant breeding plant densities plant height polyploids Proc production Reid Yellow Dent relative replicate resistance response to selection rice seed selected lines selection differential selection for ear selection response single-cross species Stiff Stalk teosinte thousand plants/ha tion tolerance traits trends tropical variability variance variation wheat yield gains yield potential