Genetic and Production Innovations in Field Crop Technology: New Developments in Theory and Practice

by Kang; Manjit S.

• ISBN13: 9781560221227
• ISBN10: 1560221224
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-12-15
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

Get cutting-edge information to improve crop breeding and productivity! Crop improvement will become progressively important over the next few decades as the world's population is expected to top 10 billion people, with more than eight billion in developing countries alone. Genetic and Production Innovations in Field Crop Technology: New Developments in Theory and Practice tackles this enormous challenge by detailing the latest available research and innovations for crop breeders and physiologists for the twenty-first century. Respected multidisciplinary scientists comprehensively discuss cutting-edge advances in field crop technology and genetic production as they keep an eye on the goal of providing nutrition to a hungry world. Genetic and Production Innovations in Field Crop Technology emphasizes an integrated approach to solve global crop production problems and increase crop productivity. Crop research experts review methods of globally improving crop yield, food product efficiency, and providing adequate nutrition in diet. The authors discuss various types of field crops, including corn, soybeans, winter wheat, cassavas, rubber, sunflowers, and barley, as well as review the exciting innovations on the food production horizon. The text is extensively referenced and includes useful graphs and tables to clearly present data. Genetic and Production Innovations in Field Crop Technology presents: visionary articles by authorities in agricultural sciences statistical design axioms and modern plot techniques discussions of integration of crop physiology and plant breeding information on systematic collection and preservation of germplasm explanations of genetic diversity in soybeans corn breeding and production research--including the economics--in the United States research on cassava breeding in less favorable environments to alleviate poverty strategies for improving yielding potential of rubber in sub-optimal environments information on fine-tuning wheat genotype-by-environment interaction methodology reviews of QTL identification, mega-environment classification, and effective strategies for marker-based selection via GGE biplot analyses research on statistical properties and practical usefulness of the Scheffe-Calinski and Shukla models relative to genotype-by-environment interaction Genetic and Production Innovations in Field Crop Technology: New Developments in Theory and Practice belongs in every agricultural university library. Crop breeders, geneticists, agronomists and horticulturists, educators, and students will find this an invaluable research source for now and for the future.

Table of Contents

Preface	xv
Is Crop Improvement Still Needed?	1	(8)
L. T. Evans
Crop Breeding in the Twenty-First Century	9	(14)
Donald N. Duvick
Scientific Breakthroughs and Plant Breeding	23	(6)
Gurdev S. Khush
Designing for and Analyzing Results from Field Experiments	29	(22)
Walter T. Federer
Jose Crossa
Physiological Determinants of Crop Growth and Yield in Maize, Sunflower and Soybean: Their Application to Crop Management, Modeling and Breeding	51	(52)
F. H. Andrade
V. O. Sadras
C. R. C. Vega
L. Echarte
Genetic Diversity in Crop Improvement: The Soybean Experience	103	(42)
Clay H. Sneller
Randall L. Nelson
T. E. Carter Jr.
Zhanglin Cui
Advances in Breeding of Seed-Quality Traits in Soybean	145	(30)
Istvan Rajcan
Guangyun Hou
Aron D. Weir
At Last, Another Record Corn Crop	175	(22)
A. Forrest Troyer
Darrel Good
Breeding Cassava for Underprivileged: Institutional, Socio-Economic and Biological Factors for Success	197	(24)
Kazuo Kawano
James H. Cock
Yielding Potential of Rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) in Sub-Optimal Environments	221	(28)
P. M. Priyadarshan
T. T. T. Hoa
H. Huasun
P. de S. Goncalves
Characterization of Environments and Genotypes for Analyzing Genotype X Environment Interaction: Some Recent Advances in Winter Wheat and Prospects for QTL Detection	249	(50)
M. Leflon
C. Lecomte
A. Barbottin
M. H. Jeuffroy
N. Robert
M. Brancourt-Hulmel
QTL Identification, Mega-Environment Classification, and Strategy Development for Marker-Based Selection Using Biplots	299	(26)
Weikai Yan
Nicholas A. Tinker
Duane E. Falk
Scheffe-Calinski and Shukla Models: Their Interpretation and Usefulness in Stability and Adaptation Analyses	325	(46)
Wieslaw Madry
Manjit S. Kang
Index	371