Potato Breeding: Theory and Practice [E-Book] / by John E. Bradshaw.
The potato (Solanum tuberosum) is the world's fourth most important food crop after maize, rice and wheat with 377 million tonnes fresh-weight of tubers produced in 2016 from 19.2 million hectares of land, in 163 countries, giving a global average yield of 19.6 t ha-1 (http://faostat.fao.org)....
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Personal Name(s): | Bradshaw, John E., author |
Edition: |
1st edition 2021. |
Imprint: |
Cham :
Springer,
2021
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Physical Description: |
XVII, 563 pages 92 illustrations, 68 illustrations in color (online resource) |
Note: |
englisch |
ISBN: |
9783030644147 |
DOI: |
10.1007/978-3-030-64414-7 |
Subject (LOC): |
- 1. Domestication to 21st century cultivars (i.e. historical introduction but including some modern analysis)
- 2. Need for new cultivars (FAO objectives, yield gap, nutritional value, ideotypes, climate change, end uses and target environments)
- 3. Utilization of germplasm: wild relatives, land races and modern cultivars (recent molecular studies and genetic structure of landraces, revised taxonomy of wild relatives)
- 4. Utilization of genes and their alleles (major genes, QTLs of large effect and polygenes)
- 5. Introgression breeding (diploid, tetraploid and marker-assisted)
- 6. Population improvement (diploid and tetraploid, base broadening, combining major genes and QTLs and combining polygenes through genomic selection)
- 7. Breeding clonally propagated cultivars (diploid and tetraploid, multistage and multi-trait selection)
- 8. Seed-tuber production (including problems faced by poor farmers in 'developing countries')
- 9. Breeding TPS propagated cultivars (diploid and tetraploid)
- 10. Breeding diploid F1 hybrids for TPS propagation
- 11. Genetically modified potatoes
- 12. Breeding for disease and pest resistance (theory, practice and problems)
- Index.