Essentials of Plant Breeding

by Rex Bernardo

Essentials of Plant Breeding is a textbook for a first-semester course in plant breeding. This book describes how modes of reproduction affect the choice of breeding methods, and outlines the breeding methods appropriate for self-pollinated, cross-pollinated, and asexually propagated species. Essentials of Plant Breeding includes a review of basic genetics; an introduction to the use of DNA markers in plant breeding; and a description of general features of breeding programs for field crops, vegetables and fruits, forages, turfgrasses, flowers and ornamentals, and tree and palm species.

260 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2014

Reviews

[DESMOND · Rating 5 out of 5]

Exceptional breeding concepts are out doored in this book

[Michiel · Rating 3 out of 5]

Recommended by a colleague. Puts my very rusty background in genetics to use and explains how breeders can recombine genes into plants for food, feed, and ornamental.

[Luke LeBar · Rating 4 out of 5]

Indispensable textbook.