Quantitative Genetics and Selection in Plant Breeding / / Eberhard Weber, Günter Wricke.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Medicine and Life Sciences - <1990
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2010]
©1986
Year of Publication:2010
Edition:Reprint 2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (406 p.) :; Numerous figs. and tabs.
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Table of Contents:
  • I-XII
  • 1. Basic population genetics
  • 2. Quantitative genetics
  • 3. Covariances between relatives
  • 4. Estimation of genetic variances and covariances from experiments
  • 5. Basic concepts of selection
  • 6. Selection between clones and homozygous lines
  • 7. Selection in cross-fertilizing crops - population improvement
  • 8. Synthetic varieties
  • 9. Hybrid varieties
  • 10. Selection in segregating generations of self-fertilizing crops
  • 11. Selection in autotetraploids
  • 12. Selection for several characters
  • 13. Selection progress and selection limits
  • Appendix
  • References
  • Author index
  • Subject index
  • 407-408