The Arnel R. Hallauer International Symposium
by Kendall R. Lamkey
Plant Breeding reviews the status of the major challenges, approaches, and accomplishments of plant breeding programs from around the world The coverage is broad and comprehensive and provides the latest developments affecting grains, trees, fruits, nuts, and forage crops.
Contents
- Plant Breeding: Past, Present, and Future
- Who Are Plant Breeders, What Do They Do, and Why?
- Social and Environmental Benefits of Plant Breeding
- Defining and Achieving Plant-Breeding Goals
- Improving the Connection Between Effective Crop Conservation and Breeding
- Breeding for Cropping Systems
- Participatory Plant Breeding: A Market-Oriented, Cost-Effective Approach
- Plant Breeding Education
- Theoretical and Biological Foundations of Plant Breeding
- Integrating Breeding Tools to Generate Information for Efficient Breeding: Past, Present, and Future
- Genotype by Environment Interaction - Basics and Beyond
- Applications of Comparative Genomics to Crop Improvement
- Perspectives on Finding and Using Quantitative Disease Resistance Genes in Barley
- Breeding for Resistance to Abiotic Stresses in Rice: The Value of Quantitative Trait Loci
- The Phenotypic and Genotypic Eras of Plant Breeding
- The Historical and Biological Basis of the Concept of Heterotic Patterns in Corn Belt Dent Maize
- Hybrid and Open-Pollinated Varieties in Modern Agriculture
- Breeding Vegetatively Propagated Crops
- Origins of Fruit Culture and Fruit Breeding
- Sugarcane Genomics and Breeding
- Improving Tolerance to Abiotic Stresses in Staple Crops: A Random or Planned Process?
- Breeding for Increased Forage Quality
- Breeding for Grain Amino Acid Composition in Maize
- Derivation of Open-Pollinated Inbred Lines and Their Relation to Z-Lines for Cyclic Hybridization
- Breeding Maize Exotic Germplasm
- Development of a Heterotic Pattern in Orange Flint Maize
Index
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