Cereals

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Carena, Marcelo J. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer US, 2009.
• Series: Handbook of Plant Breeding ; 3
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Agriculture.; Botany.; Plant breeding.; Life Sciences.; Plant Genetics & Genomics.; Plant Sciences.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-72297-9

Handbook of Plant Breeding series Cereal Breeding Marcelo J. Carena Editor Agriculture depends on improved cultivars, and plant breeders are those who develop improved cultivars through proper germplasm choice. Breeding methods and molecular tools are secondary to germplasm choice in plant breeding....

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Contributors
• Section I Cereal Crop Breeding
• Maize
• Rice
• Spring Wheat
• Rye
• Sorghum
• Durum Wheat
• Barley
• Winter Wheat
• Triticale
• Section II Adding Value to Breeding
• Statistical Analyses of Genotype by Environment Data
• Breeding for Grain Quality Traits
• Breeding for Silage Quality Traits
• Participatory Plant Breeding
• Index.