Plant Biotechnology and Genetics: Principles, Techniques and Applications

systems in plants (Darwin 1876). Plant mating systems have continued to fascinate botanists and geneticists since that time. Pla ...

often calledpure lines. Some of the surviving lines may be characterized by reduced vigour and fertility, a condition known asin ...

effectiveness of SI in promoting outbreeding is believed to be one of the most important factors that ensured the evolutionary s ...

ability of the pistil to discern the presence of self-pollen and to inhibit the germination or subsequent development of self-re ...

biomass has to be employed in producing flowers, nectar, and so on. Other disadvantages to an obligate outcrosser are that if on ...

parent species, calledunreduced gametes. If two unreduced gametes fertilize one another, the resultant hybrid would have the com ...

during their evolution (Soltis et al. 2004). Hybrid speciation is another important pheno- menon. Interspecific hybridization an ...

LIFE BOX 2.1. RICHARD A. DIXON Richard A. Dixon, Professor and Director, Plant Biology Division, Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation ...

production goals through basic and applied science and demonstration, and, during the previous years, I had hired a number of ex ...

word pictures in order to explain what had been discovered. Their careful tute- lage gave me the understanding of how to pursue ...

have generated by highlighting the obser- vation common to the vast majority of hybridizing plant and animal taxa (as well as fo ...

Goss J (1824): On the variation in the colour of peas, occasioned by cross-impregnation.Trans Hort Soc Lond 5 :234. Grant V (198 ...

&CHAPTER 3 Plant Breeding NICHOLAS A. TINKER Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 3.0. CHAPTER SUMMARY ...

3.1 Introduction Plant breeders enjoy quoting a famous US president, who wrote that “The greatest service which can be rendered ...

specific parents, and the selection (or elimination) of progeny. This seemingly simple itera- tive process is elaborated by many ...

by single genes). Such traits are also described as showingsimple inheritance. However, many other traits that a plant breeder w ...

color. These other differences may or may not be noticeable, and they may or may not be present within a specific set of germpla ...

SinceVPis always greater than or equal toVG, the heritability of a trait can range from 0 to 1. IfHis equal to one, then all var ...

This prediction applies to a single locus, and to the average level of homozygosity afterX generations of selfing. Thus, after j ...

In 1903 a Danish biologist, Wilhelm Johannsen, reported an important finding that has provided the foundation for modern breedin ...