Details
Title
Crop breeding: A contemporary basis
Author
Vose, P.B.
Blixt, S.G.
Blixt, S.G.
Imprint
Oxford Pergamon Press United Kingdom
Publication Date
1984
Description
vii, 443p. : figs., tables
ISBN
0-08-025505-1
Note
AD140 (Date change): 1992-08-6
Call Number
SB123.V6
Summary
This book consists of 15 charpters with and an index to bring together information on the physiology and technology of contemporary plant breeding. The chapters are entiltled: (1) New parameters and selction criteria in plant breeding [by] S. K. Sinha & M. S. Swaminathan, (2) Strategy of breeding for disease resistance [by] R. R. Nelson, (3) Search for useful physiological and biochemical traits in maize [by] J.H. Sherrard, R. J. Lambert, M. J. Messmer, F. E. Below & R. H. Hageman, (4) Effects of genetic factors on nutritional requirements of plants [by] P. B. Vose, (5) Breeding and selection for resistance to low temperature [by] C. Stushnoff, B. Fowler & A. Brule-Babel, (6) Screening and selection techniques for improving drought resistance [by] J. M. Clarke & T. F. Townley-Smith, (7) Photosynthesis and assimilate partitioning in relation to plant breeding [by] P. Apel, (8) Potential for enhancing biological nitrogen fixation [by] J. M. Vincent, (9) Role of induced mutations [by] C. F. Konzak, (10) Applications of computers to genebansks and breeding programmes [by] S. Blixt, (11) Plant tissue culture: rapid propagation, induced mutations and potential role of protoplast techniques [by] M. Cailloux, (12) Production and application of haploid plants [by] W. R. Sharp, S. M. Reed & D. A. Evans, (13) Breeding for enhanced proteins [by] H. P. Muller, (14) Tissue culture for disease elimination and germplasm storage [by] G. G. Henshaw, and (15) Breeding towards and ideotype - aiming at a moving target? [by] S. Blixt & P. B. Vose. [[TH]
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