Introduction to Biochemical Basis of Plant Breeding

Description

The journey by this book from theoretical and historical underpinning through the actual processes now known as plant breeding thus begins. Mass selection is the simplest form of plant breeding. Plant breeding is an activity that has been carried out since humans first started undertaking settled farming. Plant breeding itself is still necessarily based on sound genetics, experimental design and traditional evaluation of phenotypes. The strategies therefore underlying the practice of plant breeding are therefore not only relevant but necessary in order to carry out a successful plant breeding program. The basis for such plant breeding practices is set out in this book. The reader is referred to many other informative and enlightening textbooks to appreciate that the subject of plant breeding may be approached and treated in many different ways.