| Advances in Breeding Techniques for Cereal Crops Contributor(s): Ordon, Frank (Editor), Friedt, Wolfgang (Contribution by), Zhang, Wei (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 1786762447 ISBN-13: 9781786762443 Publisher: Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing Ltd OUR PRICE: $232.75 Product Type: Hardcover Published: June 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Technology & Engineering | Agriculture - Sustainable Agriculture - Technology & Engineering | Agriculture - Agronomy - Crop Science |
| Series: Burleigh Dodds Agricultural Science |
| Physical Information: 1.31" H x 6" W x 9" (2.17 lbs) 612 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book provides a comprehensive review of recent advances in breeding techniques for cereals such as wheat and barley. It discusses developments in conventional techniques such as backcross breeding, the use of doubled haploids (DH) and hybrid breeding. The book then reviews the latest advances in phenotyping to facilitate selection and in identifying genetic markers for marker-assisted breeding (MAS). This provides the foundation for summaries of advances in MAS techniques such as genome wide association studies (GWAS), nested association mapping (NAM) and genomic selection (GS). The final part of the book looks forward to emerging techniques such as gene editing (GE). |
Contributor Bio(s): Haas, Matthew: - Matthew completed his undergraduate degree in Biology at St. John's University in Collegeville, MN in 2009. He completed his PhD with the Department of Plant Pathology at the University of Minnesota in 2016. The focus of his doctoral work was on characterizing the genetic architecture of resistance to diseases of barley. He then joined the Domestication Genomics group at the Leibniz-Institute for Plant Genetics (IPK) in Gatersleben, Germany as a post-doc working on regulatory variation of gene expression in barley. He is now a post-doc at the University of Minnesota Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics providing bioinformatics support for the wild rice (Zizania palustris) breeding and conservation project.Friedt, Wolfgang: - Wolfgang Friedt is Professor Emeritus of Plant Breeding at the Justus Liebig-University of Giessen (Germany), where he has taught crop science, plant genetics and breeding. He has published widely on the genetic basis of important traits determining disease resistance, yield and quality of crop plants including cereals. Professor Friedt serves on the editorial board of two scientific journals. He is also chair or member of scientific boards for various professional organisations, including the Science Board of the Wheat Initiative.Ordon, Frank: - Professor Frank Ordon is President of the Julius Kühn-Institute (JKI), the Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants in Germany. He is Honorary Professor for Molecular Resistance Breeding at the Martin-Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Editor-in-Chief of Plant Breeding, a member of the editorial board of several other journals and Chair of the Wheat Initiative Research Committee. He has published widely on molecular markers and improving resistance to biotic and abiotic stress especially in cereals.Friedt, Wolfgang: - Wolfgang Friedt is Professor Emeritus of Plant Breeding at the Justus Liebig-University of Giessen (Germany), where he has taught crop science, plant genetics and breeding. He has published widely on the genetic basis of important traits determining disease resistance, yield and quality of crop plants including cereals. Professor Friedt serves on the editorial board of two scientific journals. He is also chair or member of scientific boards for various professional organisations, including the Science Board of the Wheat Initiative. |