Selection Methods in Plant Breeding

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-x

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2. Introduction

   • Izak Bos, Peter Caligari

   Pages 1-4

3. Population genetic aspects of cross-fertilization

   • Izak Bos, Peter Caligari

   Pages 5-25

4. Inbreeding

   • Izak Bos, Peter Caligari

   Pages 26-48

5. Assortative mating and disassortative mating

   • Izak Bos, Peter Caligari

   Pages 49-55

6. Population genetic effects of selection with regard to sex expression

   • Izak Bos, Peter Caligari

   Pages 56-62

7. Random variation of allele frequencies

   • Izak Bos, Peter Caligari

   Pages 63-72

8. Selection

   • Izak Bos, Peter Caligari

   Pages 73-99

9. Quantitative variation

   • Izak Bos, Peter Caligari

   Pages 100-132

10. Effects of the mode of reproduction on the expected genotypic value

    • Izak Bos, Peter Caligari

    Pages 133-158

11. Effects of the mode of reproduction on the genetic variance

    • Izak Bos, Peter Caligari

    Pages 159-172

12. Applications of quantitative genetic theory in plant breeding

    • Izak Bos, Peter Caligari

    Pages 173-221

13. Selection for several traits

    • Izak Bos, Peter Caligari

    Pages 222-243

14. Genotype x environment interaction

    • Izak Bos, Peter Caligari

    Pages 244-256

15. The disclosure of the genotypic value in the case of heterogeneous growing conditions

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    Pages 257-287

16. The detrimental effects of allocompetition on the efficiency of selection

    • Izak Bos, Peter Caligari

    Pages 288-304

17. The optimum number of replications

    • Izak Bos, Peter Caligari

    Pages 305-308

18. The size and shape of the test plots

    • Izak Bos, Peter Caligari

    Pages 309-318

19. The optimum generation to start selection in self-fertilizing crops

    • Izak Bos, Peter Caligari

    Pages 319-325

20. Experimental designs for plant breeding

    • Izak Bos, Peter Caligari

    Pages 326-329

Our requirement for plant breeders to be successful has never been greater. However one views the forecasted numbers for future population growth we will need, in the immediate future, to be feeding, clothing and housing many more people than we do, inadequately, at present. Plant breeding represents the most valuable strategy in increasing our productivity in a way that is sustainable and environmentally sensitive. Plant breeding can rightly be considered as one of the oldest multidisciplin­ ary subjects that is known to humans. It was practised by people who first started to carry out a settled form of agriculture. The art, as it must have been at that stage, was applied without any formal underlying framework, but achieved dramatic results, as witnessed by the forms of cultivated plants we have today. We are now learning how to apply successfully the results of yet imperfect scientific knowledge. This knowledge is, however, rapidly develop­ ing, particularly in areas of tissue culture, biotechnology and molecular biology. Plant breeding's inherent multifaceted nature means that alongside obvious subject areas like genetics we also need to consider areas such as: statistics, physiology, plant pathology, entomology, biochemistry, weed science, quality, seed characteristics, reproductive biology, trial design, se­ lection and computing.

• Bos
• Caligari
• Expression
• Genotyp
• Heterosis
• Soil fertility
• breeding
• chromosome
• fertilization
• plant
• plant breeding
• plants
• quantitative Variation
• reproduction
• soil

...it does give a lot of useful information about the application of theory in breeding programmes and can...be recommended as an additional textbook for students and research workers. - Acta Botanica Neerlandica

• Department of Plant Breeding, Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands

  Izak Bos

• Department of Agricultural Botany, The University of Reading, UK

  Peter Caligari

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