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Plant Breeding Methods
This text has been compiled to provide an overview of how plant breeders develop cultivars of plant species. The methods that breeders use depend directly on the type of cultivar used to produce a commercial crop. he four most common types of cultivars are (a) clonal cultivars (b) synthetic cultivars (c) pure-line cultivars and (d) hybrid cultivars. These types of cultivars will be discussed throughout the book, alongside review questions for self-study.
- Author
- Walter R. Fehr and Walter P. Suza
- Publisher
- Iowa State University
- Source
- LibreTexts
- License
- CC BY-NC
- Language
- EN
- Category
- Basic Sciences
Contents· 10 sections
- 01: Chapters
- 1.01: Types of Cultivars and Modes of Plant Reproduction
- 1.02: Sources of Parental Germplasm
- 1.03: Population Formation by Hybridization
- 1.04: Techniques for Artificial Hybridization
- 1.05: Mutation Breeding
- 1.06: Novel Traits from Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology
- 1.07: Backcrossing
- 1.08: Inbreeding
- 1.09: Recurrent Selection