Principles and Procedures of Plant Breeding: Biotechnological and Conventional Approaches

By S.S. Gosal and G.S. Chahal

Discusses the history of the development, current status and latest refinements of plant breeding, including breeding plans and their genetic bases. Alternate approaches for the exploitation of heterosis and population improvement elaborated with schematic diagrams are also discusses, and a detailed account of biometrical procedures in molecular biology for genetic analysis and improvement of quantitative traits through QTL-mapping is provided.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184265036X
• ISBN13: 9781842650363
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Alpha Science International, Ltd
• Length: 624 Pages