Quantitative Genetics in Maize Breeding
Handbook of Plant Breeding Arnel R. Hallauer • Marcelo J. Carena • J.B. Miranda Filho Quantitative Genetics in Maize Breeding Public investment in maize breeding from 1865 to 1996 was $3 billion (Crosbie et al., 2004) and the return on investment was $260
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HANDBOOK OF PLANT BREEDING Editors-in-Chief: JAIME PROHENS, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain FERNANDO NUEZ, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain MARCELO J. CARENA, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, USA
Volume 1 Vegetables I: Asteraceae, Brassicaceae, Chenopodicaceae, and Cucurbitaceae Edited by Jaime Prohens and Fernando Nuez Volume 2 Vegetables II: Fabaceae, Liliaceae, Solanaceae and Umbelliferae Edited by Jaime Prohens and Fernando Nuez Volume 3 Cereals Edited by Marcelo J. Carena Volume 4 Oil Crops Edited by Johann Vollmann and Istvan Rajcan Volume 5 Fodder Crops and Amenity Grasses Edited by Beat Boller, Ulrich K. Posselt, Fabio Veronesi Volume 6 Quantitative Genetics in Maize Breeding Arnel R. Hallauer, Marcelo J. Carena, J.B. Miranda Filho
Arnel R. Hallauer · Marcelo J. Carena · J.B. Miranda Filho
Quantitative Genetics in Maize Breeding
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Arnel R. Hallauer Department of Agronomy Iowa State University Ames, IA 50011, USA [email protected]
Marcelo J. Carena Department of Plant Sciences #7670 North Dakota State University Fargo, ND 58108-6050, USA [email protected]
J.B. Miranda Filho University of São Paulo Brazil
ISBN 978-1-4419-0765-3 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-0766-0 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-0766-0 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2010930230 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 © 1981, 1988 Iowa State University Press, Ames, Iowa 50010 First edition 1981, Second printing 1982, Third printing 1985, Fourth printing 1986, Second edition 1988 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Cover illustration: Moving corn germplasm northward and westward. The principles of quantitative genetics behind the adaptation, improvement, and development of drought-tolerant, high-quality, and early-maturing hybrids allows a maize crop for ethanol production in western North Dakota with the integration of pre-breeding and cultivar development. Courtesy of Dr. Marcelo J. Carena. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
To my wife Jan, daughter Beth, and son Paul – Arnel R. Hallauer To Irene and our ‘hybrids’ (Martin y Diego) To my parents in Argentina (abuelos Bob y Cris) – Marcelo J. Carena
Preface
Plant breeding is a science of evolution. The scientific basis of plant breeding started
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