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	Breeding Field Crops 4Th Edn. by Poehlman, J. M.
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Long recoginzed as the standard work in its field, this fourth edition deals with the worldwide advances in plant breeding science and practice in recent years. The authors explain how the expanded knowledge of genetics has contributed to the precision eith which new crop cultivars can be developed. they also look at how existing developments in molecular biology are bringing powerful new tools to supplement those already in the hands of plant breeders. CONTENST : 1. Plant breeders and their work 2. Reproduction in crops plants 3. Gene recombination in plant breeding 4. Quantitative in heritance in plant breeding 5. Variation in chromosome number 6. Mutation 7. Fertility-regulating mechanisms and their manipulation 8. Molecular biology : application in plant breeding 9. Breeding self-pollinated crops 10. breeding cross-pollinated and clonally propagated crops 11. Breeding hybrid cultivars 12. Breeding objectives and techniques 13. Germplasm resources and conservation 14. Breeding wheat 15. Breeding rice 16. Breeding soybean 17. Breeding corn ( maize ) 18. Breeding sorghum 19. Breeding cotton 20. Breeding cross-polli- nated forge crops 21. Cultivar increase, maintenance and seed production. Glossary, Index.1995 ( PB )

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