Breeding Field Crops
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Breeding
Field Crops Third Edition
JOHN MILTON POEHLMAN Professor Emeritus University of Missouri, Columbia
Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
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Library of Congress Cata!og Card Number 86-10777 ISBN 978-94-015-7273-6 DOI 10.1007/978-94-015-7271-2
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Poeh!man, John Мiltоп, 1910Breeding fie!d crops. Inc!udes bibliographies and index. 1. Fie!d crops-Breeding. 1. Tit!e. SВ185.7.Р63 1986 633'.083 86-10777
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Contents Preface
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Plant Breeders and Their Work What Is Plant Breeding? 4 5 The Strategy of Plant Breeding Training for the Modern Plant Breeder 5 8 Some Early Plant Breeders Some Accomplishments in Plant Breeding 10 Who Does Plant Breeding in the United States? Bibliography 14
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Reproduction in Crop Plants Types of Reproduction 17 Sexual Reproduction in Crop Plants Asexual Reproduction in Crop Plants Bibliography 37
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Gene Recombination in Plant Breeding Variation, the Basis of Plant Breeding 38 41 The Mechanism of Mendelian Heredity Gene Recombination Following Hybridization Gene Structure and Action 59 Bibliography 62
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Quantitative Inheritance in Plant Breeding Quantitative Inheritance and its Measurement Multiple Alleles 74 Types of Gene Action 75 Heritability 76 Selection Intensity and Genetic Advance 79 Gene Frequency and Genetic Equilibrium 81 Gene Recombination and Plant Breeding 84 Bibliography 85 v
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Variations in Chromosome Number Polyploidy 87 Aneuploidy 99 Haploidy 102 Bibliography 106
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Mutation The Nature of Mutation 109 115 Induction of Mutation Mutator Genes and Controlling Elements 118 119 Some Mutation-Breeding Experiments 125 Role of Mutation Breeding Bibliography 127
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Fertility-Regulating Mechanisms and Their Manipulation Incompatibility 130 134 Male Sterility Apomixis 143 Interspecific Hybridization Bibliography 145
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Plant Cell and Tissue Culture: Applications in Plant Breeding Plant Cell and Tissue Culture 149, Clonal Propagation 152 Embryo Culture, Ovule Culture, and in Vitro Pollination Anther Culture and Haploid Plant Production 157 161 Genetic Variab
