Plant Breeding in the Omics Era [Paperback]

The field of plant breeding has grown rapidly in the last decade with breakthrough research in genetics and genomics, inbred development, population improvement, hybrids, clones, self-pollinated crops, polyploidy, transgenic breeding and more.?This book discusses the latest developments in all these areas but explores the next generation of needs and discoveries including omics beyond genomics, cultivar seeds and intellectual and property rights. This book is a leading-edge publication of the latest results and forecasts important areas of future needs and applications.

Contents

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1. Introduction to Plant Breeding

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Plant Breeding and Society

Genetics, Omics and Plant Breeding

Populations

Genetic Diversity

Distances Measures

Grouping Germplasm

Quantitative Variation

Mapping Traits

Genotype-by-Environment Interaction

Phenotyping

Phenomics

References

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2. Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

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Crop Evolution and Plant Species Feeding the World

Genebanks

Gene Pools

Describing Variation and Identifying Redundancy

Germplasm Evaluation

Descriptors

Documentation and Bioinformatics

Geo-documentation to Identify Germplasm

Genebank Sampling and Core Subsets

Genomics of Plant Genetic Resources

Putting Genes into Usable Forms

References

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3. Inbred Development

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DNA markers for Mlã!