Molecular plant breeding /

• Main Author: Xu, Yunbi, (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2010.
• Subjects: Crop improvement.; Plant breeding.; Crops > Molecular genetics.; Crops > Genetics.; Field Crops, (New March 2000); Plant Breeding and Genetics.; Molecular Biology and Molecular Genetics, (Discontinued March 2000, Reinstated and Revised June 2002); Plants.; Cereals.; Genetic improvement.; Molecular genetics.; Electronic books.
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This book provides a comprehensive coverage of the components (molecular tools and methodologies as well as conventional approaches) that should be integrated within plant breeding programmes for the improvement of crop plants. Although the book has attempted to cover all relevant areas of molecular...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Molecular breeding tools : markers and maps
• Molecular breeding tools : omics and arrays
• Populations in genetics and breeding
• Plant genetic resources : management, evaluation, and enhancement
• Molecular dissection of complex traits : theory
• Molecular dissection of complex traits : practice
• Marker-assisted selection : theory
• Marker-assisted selection : practice
• Genotype-by-environment interaction
• Isolation and functional analysis of genes
• Gene transfer and genetically modified plants
• Intellectual property rights and plant variety protection
• Breeding informatics
• Decision support tools.