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Record Nr.

UNINA9910876515203321

Titolo

Plant breeding reviews . Volume 14 / / edited by Jules Janick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, N.Y., : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1997

ISBN

1-282-68906-1

9786612689062

0-470-65007-9

0-470-65006-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (395 p.)

Collana

Plant breeding reviews, , 0730-2207 ; ; v. 14

Altri autori (Persone)

JanickJules

Disciplina

631.52

Soggetti

Plant breeding

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Dedication: Donald N. Duvick, Maize breeder, geneticist, and administrator -- Comparative mapping of plant phenotypes -- Plant antifungal proteins -- Competitive ability and plant breeding -- Recurrent selection methods based on evaluation-cum-recombination block -- Utilization of exotic maize germplasm -- History, genetics, and breeding of supersweet (shrunken2) sweet corn -- Breeding wild rice -- Plantain improvement -- Chrysanthemum systematics, genetics, and breeding.

Sommario/riassunto

A state-of-the-art overview on important topics relating to the breeding of agriculturally and horticulturally important plants. It continually monitors developments in plant breeding research and covers major field crops, horticultural crops and specialties.