Description: In Vitro Haploid Production in Higher Plants Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Volume 2: Applications Author(s): S. Mohan Jain, S.K. Sopory, R.E. Veilleux Format: Paperback Publisher: Springer, Netherlands Imprint: Springer ISBN-13: 9789048145805, 978-9048145805 Synopsis Since the beginning of agricultural production, there has been a continuous effort to grow more and better quality food to feed ever increasing popula tions. Both improved cultural practices and improved crop plants have al lowed us to divert more human resources to non-agricultural activities while still increasing agricultural production. Malthusian population predictions continue to alarm agricultural researchers, especially plant breeders, to seek new technologies that will continue to allow us to produce more and better food by fewer people on less land. Both improvement of existing cultivars and development of new high-yielding cultivars are common goals for breeders of all crops. In vitro haploid production is among the new technologies that show great promise toward the goal of increasing crop yields by making similar germplasm available for many crops that was used to implement one of the greatest plant breeding success stories of this century, i. e. , the development of hybrid maize by crosses of inbred lines. One of the main applications of anther culture has been to produce diploid homozygous pure lines in a single generation, thus saving many generations of backcrossing to reach homozygosity by traditional means or in crops where self-pollination is not possible. Because doubled haploids are equivalent to inbred lines, their value has been appreciated by plant breeders for decades. The search for natural haploids and methods to induce them has been ongoing since the beginning of the 20th century.
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Book Title: In Vitro Haploid Production in Higher Plants
Number of Pages: 442 Pages
Publication Name: In Vitro Haploid Production in Higher Plants: Volume 2: Applications
Language: English
Publisher: Springer
Item Height: 235 mm
Subject: Biology
Publication Year: 2010
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 700 g
Author: S.K. Sopory, R.E. Veilleux, S. Mohan Jain
Item Width: 155 mm
Series: Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture
Format: Paperback
