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This is the first book in a new series covering all major aspects of plant breeding. "Plant Breeding: Principles and Prospects" has arisen from a series of widely-respected courses held at the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute in Zaragoza in Spain. The book emphasizes the principles of plant breeding and the manner in which the new developing techniques may be integrated into practice and the prospects which these new technologies offer. The book has been carefully edited by Drs Hayward, Romagosa and Bosemark and contains contributors from many senior European experts. The book is divided into sections, each containing several chapters, covering genetic systems and population structure, sources and assessment of variation, manipulation of genetic systems, selection methods, adaptation and specific trait breeding. Much of the information has been used for teaching purposes and the vast wealth of detail within the book means that it is an invaluable reference work for all concerned with the subject of plant breeding, including senior level students, researchers and teachers in plant and agricultural sciences and plant genetics.This book should be of interest to all those involved in plant breeding at all academic levels.
2 117 kr
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A comprehensive review of modern statistical and trial management techniques for field evaluation of plant varieties, this advanced text focuses on the distinctive goals of plant breeders and the technical problems they face. Theoretical methods are explained clearly and supported by numerous examples and references to available computer software. This book should be of interest to plant scientists working on plant breeding programmes, masters students, researchers and teachers in the plant sciences, plant genetics and biometry.
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Aimed at undergraduate and graduate students pursuing courses in applied genetics and plant breeding, but particularly at practising plant breeders, this book assumes only a basic knowledge of genetics and statistics. It expressly seeks to examine and explain quantitative and ecological aspects of plant breeding from a practical point-of-view, using data taken whenever possible from actual breeding trials to illustrate the analytical techniques described. The text is divided into eight chapters, of which the first is a historical introduction to the subject. Topics covered in the remaining chapters include the fitting of genetic models to means and variances and their role in prediction; experimental mating designs and their use in breeding programmes; selection with and without competition; the problems posed by, and the analysis of, genotype-environment interactions in multi-environment trials; stability, adaptability and adaptation; genetic resources and diversity, and ecogeographical breeding; breeding for biotic and abiotic stress. This book should be of interest to plant scientists, agricultural scientists, plant breeders and geneticists.
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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 multidisciplinary 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 developing, 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, repro ductive biology, trial design, selection and computing. It therefore seems apparent that modern plant breeders need to have a grasp of wide range of scientific knowledge and expertise if they are successfully to a exploit the techniques, protocols and strategies which are open to them.
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Latest figures suggest that approximately 20% of the world's population of six billion is malnourished because of food shortages and inadequate distrib ution systems. To make matters worse, it is estimated that some 75 billion metric tons of soil are removed annually from the land by wind and soil ero sion, much of it from agricultural land, which is thereby rendered unsuitable for agricultural purposes. Moreover, out of a total land area under cultivation 9 6 of approximately 1. 5 x 10 ha, some 12 x 10 ha of arable land are destroyed and abandoned worldwide each year because of unsustainable agricultural practices. Add to this the fact that the world population is increasing at the rate of a quarter of a million per day, and the enormity of the task ahead becomes apparent. To quote the eminent wheat breeder E. R. Sears, It seems clear that plant geneticists can look forward to an expanded role in the 21st century, particularly in relation to plant improvement. The suc cess of these efforts may go a long way towards determining whether the world's increasing billions of humans will be adequately fed. Food for an ever-increasing population will have to be produced not only from an ever-diminishing, but from what will become an ever-deteriorating land resource unless justifiable environmental concerns are taken into account.
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The International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM), established in 1962, is an intergovernmental organization of four teen countries: Albania, Algeria, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Lebanon, Malta, Morocco, Portugal, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey and Yugoslavia. Four institutes (Bari, Italy; Chania, Greece; Montpellier, France and Zaragoza, Spain) provide post-graduate education at the Master of Science level. CIHEAM promotes research networks on Mediterranean agricultural priorities, supports the organization of specialized education in member countries, holds seminars and workshops bringing together technologists and scientists involved in Mediterranean agriculture and regularly produces diverse publications including the series 'Options Mediterraneennes'. Through these activities, CIHEAM promotes North/South dialogue and international co-operation for agricultural development in the Mediterranean region. Plant breeding is, since 1982, one of the fields in which CIHEAM is con ducting a programme of training and promotion of research, through its Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Zaragoza. The programme includes a one-year advanced specialization course, a series of two-week courses for professionals, and support for collaborative research activities in Mediterranean-relevant species. Many of these activities are organized in col laboration with national and international institutions. The publication in 1993 of Plant Breeding. Principles and Prospects, which ini tiated the Chapman & Hall's Plant Breeding Series, has become an important feature of CIHEAM's plant breeding programme. We are now pleased to add a further volume to that series: the present book, Statistical Methods for Plant Variety Evaluation.