Crop Genetics

This book provides an introduction to genetic concepts such as reproductive systems, recombination, mutation, segregation and linkage analysis, inbreeding, quantitative inheritance, fertility regulation, population genetics and polyploidy.

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Other Authors: Suza, Walter (Editor), Lamkey, Kendall (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Digital Press, Iowa State University [2023]
Series:Open textbook library.
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Table of Contents:
  • About the PBEA Series
  • Reproduction in Crop Plants
  • Flower Morphology and Distribution
  • Controlled Hybridization: Self-incompatibility, Male-sterility, and Sex-inheritance
  • Gene Segregation and Genetic Recombination
  • Linkage
  • Population Genetics
  • Inbreeding and Heterosis
  • Inheritance of Quantitative Traits
  • Mutations and Variation
  • Ploidy: Polyploidy, Aneuploidy, and Haploidy