by Ralph E. Comstock
Quantitative Genetics with Special Reference to Plant and Animal Breeding was created as a theory basis for optimizing the decisions involved in the structuring of programs for improvement of genetic materials employed, or to be employed, in agriculture.
Contents
- Introduction
- Genetic Background
- Breeding Programs
- Comparisons of Breeding Procedures
- Responses to Artificial Selection
- Mass Selection
- Mass Selection - Assumptions and Validity of Theory
- Progeny Test and Family Systems of Recurrent Selection
- Selection for Performance in Crossbreds
- The Variance
- Effective Population Size in Recurrent Selection Programs
- Choice of the Selection Criterion
- The Design of Breeding Programs
- Comparison of Selection Systems
- Methods in Quantitative Genetics
- Looking Ahead
Index
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