To respond to the increasing need to
feed the world's population as well as an ever greater demand for a balanced
and healthy diet there is a continuing need to produce improved new cultivars
or varieties of plants, particularly crop plants. The strategies used to
produce these are increasingly based on our knowledge of relevant science,
particularly genetics, but involves a multidisciplinary understanding that
optimizes the approaches taken.
Principles of Plant Genetics and Breeding, 2nd Edition introduces both classical and
molecular tools for plant breeding. Topics such as biotechnology in plant
breeding, intellectual property, risks, emerging concepts (decentralized
breeding, organic breeding), and more are addressed in the new, updated edition
of this text. Industry highlight boxes are included throughout the text to
contextualize the information given through the professional experiences of
plant breeders. The final chapters provide a useful reference on breeding the
largest and most common crops.
It represents a
thoroughly overhauled version of the preceding edition, following
recommendations and suggestions from users and reviewers. The major changes in
the new edition include restructuring and reordering the chapters to follow
more closely with how plant breeding is done in practice, and expanding the
molecular genetics component. Also, the basic science information has been
reduced. Two of the chapters in the first edition have been transferred to the
back of the textbook as supplementary material, so it may be referred to by
users only as needed. In this way, students and users who already have a
background in genetics will not feel obligated to study those chapters before
advancing to more plant breeding related topics. A feature of the first edition
that is retained and expanded in the second edition is the inclusion of
contributions on selected topics by industry professionals. The book is
copiously illustrated to facilitate teaching and learning of the topics.
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