The present invention provides a method for generating a woody perennial breeding line, comprising: a) selecting one or more woody perennial plants comprising at least one allele associated with male sterility; b) selecting one or more woody perennial plants which are capable of hybridisation with ...
Among the molecular breeding methods, MABC has been most widely and successfully used in plant breeding up to date. It has been applied to different types of traits (e.g. disease/pest resistance, drought tolerance and quality) in many species, e.g. rice, wheat, maize, barley, pear millet...
The breeding systems in common use in hybrid cereal populations are based on two methods, neither of which is well suited for the study of quantitative characters. In the Pedigree Method about 95 per cent, of the plants in the segregating generations are thrown away each year, purely on eye...
Plant breeding(育种)is the science of changing the characteristics of plants in order to produce desired ones.Genes in a plant are what determine what type of characteristics it will have.Plant breeders try to create a specific outcome of plants and potentially new plant varieties by changing the...
Plant breeders try to create a specific outcome of plants and potentially new plant varieties by changing the genes of the plants through breeding, which is making new plants from parents of different varieties or species.(植物育种是一门改变植物特性以产生所需特性的科学。植物中的基因是决定它将...
In a plant breeding program, the breeders noticed that some plants had a much higher resistance to a certain disease compared to others. After investigation, they found that it was related to a small change in the DNA sequence. This small change is _. A. A genetic variation B. A genomic...
Visual assessment of soil structure: Evaluation of methodologies on sites in Canada, China and Germany: Part I: Comparing visual methods and linking them w... Visual observations of soil structure in the field offer the potential of semi-quantitative information for use in extension and monitoring...
1.1 An urgent need in plant breeding 1.1.1 Three eras in plant-breeding history What is plant breeding? A definition in Bernardo (2002) captured its essence: “Plant breeding is the science, art, and business of improving plants for human benefit.” Plant breeding is a discipline initiated ...
The purpose of this valuable book 'is to summarize the methods of plant breeding that have been developed for particular categories of crop plants, to explain the reason why particular methods are chosen for certain types of crop-improvement problems, and to give methods of field-plot technique ...
Publication Year 2023 US$82 Essentials of Plant Breedingis a textbook for a first-semester course in plant breeding. This book describes how modes of reproduction affect the choice of breeding methods, and outlines the breeding methods appropriate for self-pollinated, cross-pollinated, and asexuall...