Plant Breeding Reviews, Volume 14

Jules Janick (Edited by), J Janick (Author)

9780471573425, Wiley

Hardback, published 25 November 1996

400 pages
23.6 x 16 x 2.4 cm, 0.594 kg

A state-of-the-art overview on important topics relating to the breeding of agriculturally and horticulturally important plants. It continually monitors developments in plant breeding research and covers major field crops, horticultural crops and specialties.

Dedication: Donald N. Duvick, Maize Breeder, Geneticist, andAdministrator (A. Hallauer).

Comparative Mapping of Plant Phenotypes (A. Paterson).

Plant Antifungal Proteins (D.-J.

Yun, et al.).

Competitive Ability and Plant Breeding (D. Fasoula & V.Fasoula).

Recurrent Selection Methods Based on Evaluation-cum-RecombinationBlock (S. Vasal, et al.).

Utilization of Exotic Maize Germplasm (J. Parra & A.Hallauer).

History, Genetics, and Breeding of Supersweet (shrunken2) SweetCorn (W. Tracy).

Breeding Wild Rice (A. Grombacher, et al.).

Plantain Improvement (D. Vuylsteke, et al.).

Chrysanthemum Systematics, Genetics, and Breeding (M. Boase, etal.).

Indexes.

Subject Areas: Science: general issues [PD]