Plant Breeding Reviews Volume 24 Part 2 Longterm Selection Crops Animals And Bacteria 1st Edition Jules Janick Editor by Jules Janick (editor) 9780470650288, 9780471468929, 0470650281, 0471468924 instant download after payment.

Plant Breeding Reviews, Volume 24, Part 2 presents state-of-the-art reviews on plant genetics and the breeding of all types of crops by both traditional means and molecular methods. The emphasis of the series is on methodology, a practical understanding of crop genetics, and applications to major crops.Content:
Chapter 1 Crop Domestication as a Long?Term Selection Experiment (pages 1–44): Paul Gepts
Chapter 2 Long-Term Selection in Plants in the Developing World (pages 45–88): J. W. Miles and S. Pandey
Chapter 3 Trends in Productivity of U.S. Crops and Long?term Selection (pages 89–108): William F. Tracy, Irwin L. Goldman, Allison E. Tiefenthaler and Margaret A. Schaber
Chapter 4 Long?Term Selection in a Commercial Hybrid Maize Breeding Program (pages 109–151): D. N. Duvick, J. S. C. Smith and M. Cooper
Chapter 5 Long?Term Divergent Selection for Ear Length in Maize (pages 153–168): Arnel R. Hallauer, Andrew J. Ross and Michael Lee
Chapter 6 Inferences on the Genetics of Quantitative Traits from Long?Term Selection in Laboratory and Domestic Animals (pages 169–210): William G. Hill and Lutz Bunger
Chapter 7 Long?Term Selection for Pupal Weight in Tribolium castaneum (pages 211–224): W. M. Muir, D. Miles and A. E. Bell
Chapter 8 Phenotypic and Genomic Evolution during a 20,000?Generation Experiment with the Bacterium Escherichia coli (pages 225–265): Richard E. Lenski