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Title
Market-driven plant breeding for practicing breeders / Aparna Tiwari, Surinder K. Tikoo, Sharan P. Angadi, Suresh B. Kadaru, Sadananda R. Ajanahalli, M.J. Vasudeve Rao.
ISBN
9789811954344 (electronic bk.)
9811954348 (electronic bk.)
9789811954337
981195433X
Published
Singapore : Springer, [2022]
Copyright
©2022
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxxi, 387 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Item Number
10.1007/978-981-19-5434-4 doi
Call Number
SB123
Dewey Decimal Classification
631.5/2
Summary
This book highlights the technicalities of plant breeding in a seed-business environment and explains the crucial aspects of the value chain. It educates the readers on how to initiate, participate, sustain national and international agreements for material transfer, how consortia work to facilitate germplasm accessibility, and how to set visionary goals to develop a superior plant varieties. The book covers the aspects such as how to conduct disease screening trials at hot spots, preparing an operational budget, and how to accelerate product advancement. Plant breeding is broadly defined as manipulation of plant genotypes to create phenotypes that are beneficial to mankind. It helps to achieve food security and sustainability by developing high yielding, climate-resilient, nutritious varieties of crops and hence is able to address unprecedented challenges like rising global population, diminishing genetic biodiversity, and uncertainties of the weather . This book is an extraordinary source of information starting from goal-genesis to market-oriented product-profiling and help readers to accelerate/enhance? their work/professional performance more effectively. This book will be very useful to practicing plant breeders at various levels in the public and private sectors. It is a must-have book for potential plant breeders who enter plant breeding profession just after the completion of their formal plant breeding education.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed January 19, 2023).
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9789811954337
Chapter 1. Plant Breeding: Its Evolution and Recent Trends
Chapter 2. Germplasm Management in Commercial Plant Breeding Programs
Chapter 3. Designing Plant Breeding Programs for Targeted Deliveries
Chapter 4. Inbred Line Development and Hybrid Breeding
Chapter 5. Use of Molecular Technologies in Plant Breeding
Chapter 6. Product Development in Market-Driven Plant Breeding
Chapter 7. Maintenance Breeding
Chapter 8 Seed Production Research
Chapter 9. Breeders` Role in Supporting Allied Functions in the Seed Business
Chapter 10. Regulatory Aspects of the Seed Business in Relation to Plant Breeding.
