Peter Caligari

Plants have been successfully selectively bred for thousands of years, culminating in incredible yields, quality, resistance and so on that we see in our modern day crops and ornamental plants. In recent years the techniques used have been rapidly advanced and refined to include molecular, cell and genetic techniques.An Introduction to Plant Bre...

Provides comprehensive coverage of the area of plant breeding, covering modes of reproduction in plants, breeding objectives and schemes, genetics, predictions, selection, alternative techniques and practical considerations. This book is useful for those studying, teaching and researching plant breeding.