Plant breeding, the domestication and systematic improvement of crop species, is the basis of past and present agriculture. Our so called primitive progenitors selected practically all our present-day crop plants, and the improvement wrought through millenia of selection has so changed some of them that in many cases their links to the past have been obliterated. There is no doubt that this ranks among the greatest of human achievements. Although plant breeding has been a continuous empirical activity for as long as humans have forsaken the vagaries and thrill of hunting for the security and toil of agriculture, genetic crop improvement is now very much of a twentieth-century discipline. Its scientific underpinnings date to the beginning of this century with the discovery of Gregor Mendel's classic 1865 paper on the inheritance of seven characters in the garden pea. If any science can be traced to single event, the best example is surely found in the conception of modern genetics that appears in this single creative work. The relationship of plant breeding progress to advances in genetics has become closely entwined. Mendel himself was concerned with crop improvement and worked on schemes for apple and pear breeding. Plant breeding also has claims on other scientific and agricultural disci plines-botany, plant pathology, biochemistry, statistics, taxonomy, entomology, and cytology, to name a few-and has also impinged on our social, ethical, economic, and political consciousness.
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Jules Janick (Editor)

Janick, J.

Springer London, Limited

Springer US

United States, United States of America

Springer Nature, New York, NY, 2012

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Boston, MA, 1983

New Ed, 2012

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Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Dedication: Henry A. Jones (1889–1981) Plant Breeder Extraordinaire....Pages 1-10
The Genetics of Petunia....Pages 11-58
Breeding Common Bean for Improved Quantity and Quality of Seed Protein....Pages 59-102
Genetics of Storage Protein in Maize....Pages 103-138
The Use of Endosperm Genes for Sweet Corn Improvement....Pages 139-161
Breeding Pearl Millet....Pages 162-182
Breeding Soybeans Resistant to Diseases....Pages 183-235
The Genetic Improvement of Black Walnut for Timber Production....Pages 236-266
The Genes of Lettuce and Closely Related Species....Pages 267-293
Breeding Apple Rootstocks....Pages 294-394
Back Matter....Pages 395-397

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