Selection Methods in Plant Breeding
Publication year: 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4020-6370-1
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Written for plant breeders, researchers and post-graduate students, this book provides a comprehensive review of the methods and underlying theoretical foundations used for selection in plant breeding programmes. The authors review basic elements of population and quantitative genetic theory, and consider in a unique way the tackling of the problems presented by soil heterogeneity and intergenotypic competition when selecting quantitative characters.
Subject: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Bos, Caligari, Expression, Genotyp, breeding, environment, fertilization, plant, plant breeding, population, quantitative Variation, reproduction, sex, soil
