Plant breeding reviews. Volume 39 /

• Other Authors: Janick, Jules, 1931-
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley Blackwell, 2015.
• Series: Plant Breeding Reviews.
• Subjects: Plant breeding.; Plant genetics.; Plant propagation.; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Botany.; Electronic books.

Plant Breeding Reviews presents state-of-the-art reviews on plant genetics and the breeding of all types of crops by both traditional means and molecular methods. Many of the crops widely grown today stem from a very narrow genetic base; understanding and preserving crop genetic resources is vital t...

Table of Contents:

• Charles W. Stuber: Maize Geneticist and Pioneer of Marker-Assisted Selection
• Plant Mutation Breeding: Current Progress and Future Assessment
• Recent Advances in Sorghum Biofortification Research
• Breeding Tropical Vegetable Corns
• Maize breeding in the United States
• The history, development, and importance of the New Mexican pod-type chile pepper to the United States and world food industry
• Fruit domestication in the Near East
• The Geneva apple rootstock breeding program.