Temperate Fruit Crop Breeding by Jim F. Hancock [PDF: 1402069065]

Temperate Fruit Crop Breeding by Jim F. Hancock

Title: Temperate Fruit Crop Breeding: Germplasm to Genomics
Autor: Jim F. Hancock
Pages: 456
Publisher (Publication Date): Springer; 2008 edition (April 28, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1402069065
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This book fully integrates the conventional and biotechnological approaches to fruit crop breeding. Individual chapters are written on a wide variety of species covering all the major fruit crops in one volume. For each crop, there is a discussion of their taxonomy and evolution, history of improvement, crossing techniques, evaluation methods, and heritability of major traits and germplasm resources. Also discussed are the most recent advances in genetic mapping and QTL (quantitative trait loci) analysis, marker assisted breeding, gene cloning, gene expression analysis, regeneration and transformation. Patenting and licensing issues are also covered.