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Title
Plant breeding [electronic resource] : past, present and future / John E. Bradshaw.
ISBN
9783319232850 (electronic book)
3319232851 (electronic book)
9783319232843
Published
Switzerland : Springer, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxviii, 693 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-23285-0 doi
Call Number
SB123
Dewey Decimal Classification
631.5/2
Summary
The United Nations predicts that the global human population will rise from the 7 billion reached in 2011 to 9 billion by 2050, and that world food production will need to increase between 70 and 100 per cent in just 40 years. Most of this increase will need to come from bridging the yield gap between what is currently achieved per unit of land and what should be possible in future, given the most appropriate farming methods and storage of food and the availability of suitably adapted cultivars, including adaptation to climate change. Breeding such cultivars is the challenge for a new generation of plant breeders who will need to decide what germplasm and which breeding methods to use, and the types of cultivar to produce. They will also need to consider new opportunities made possible by technological advances in the manipulation of DNA, the chemical basis of heredity. This book aims to help them in their endeavours by reviewing past achievements, currently successful practices and emerging methods and techniques. Theoretical considerations are presented when thought helpful. The book is divided into four parts: Part I is an historical introduction finishing with future goals; Part II deals with the origin, recognition and selection of genetic variants that affect qualitative and quantitative traits in a desired way, and concludes with genome evolution and polyploidy; Part III explains how the mating systems of crop species determine the genetic structures of their landraces and hence the types of high yielding cultivars that have been bred from them: synthetic (including open-pollinated), clonal, hybrid and inbred line (including mixtures); Part IV considers three complementary options for future progress: use of sexual reproduction in further conventional breeding, base broadening and introgression; mutation breeding; and genetically modified crops. It concludes with strategies for achieving durable resistance to pests and diseases.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 15, 2016).
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9783319232843
Domestication, Dispersion, Selection and Hybridization of Cultivated Plants
Scientific Breeding in the 20th Century and Future Goals
DNA and the Origin of Variation
Mendelian Genetics and Linkage Maps
Gene Expression and Selection of Major Genes
Quantitative Genetics and Genomic Selection
Genotype × Environment Interactions and Selection Environments
Genome Evolution and Polyploidy
Genetic Structure of Landraces
Open-Pollinated and Synthetic Cultivars from Population Improvement
Clonal Cultivars from Multistage Multitrait Selection
Hybrid Cultivars from Inbreeding and Crossbreeding
Inbred Line Cultivars and Mixtures from Hybridization and Inbreeding
Genetic Basis of Heterosis and Inbred Line versus Hybrid Cultivars
Use of Sexual Reproduction in Base Broadening and Introgression
Mutation Breeding
Genetically Modified Crops
Durable Resistance to Pests and Diseases
Way Ahead.
