Cultivar Development

by Walter Suza, Kendall Lamkey, and Rita H. Mumm

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This open textbook places emphasis on the design of a process pipeline for continuous development of new improved cultivars as a means to implement the cycle of crop improvement. Essential topics in New Line Development and New Line Evaluation are addressed, such as choice of parents, creation of progeny, and evaluation and selection of progeny. Students learn to design a process pipeline to produce improved cultivars that meet a specific product target which represents stakeholders’ needs.

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Publisher
Iowa State University
Subjects
Biology, Agriculture and Horticulture
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0, as LibreTexts states it. Non-commercial use only.
Who can read
Tweens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Licensing
  6. About the PBEA Series
  7. Contributors
  8. 1: Chapters
  9. 1: Plant Breeders Rise to the Challenge of Feeding the World
  10. 2: The Process of Cultivar Development- Pure Line Variety
  11. 3: New Line Development and New Line Evaluation- Single-cross Hybrid
  12. 4: New Line Development and New Line Evaluation- Clonally Propagated Cultivars
  13. 5: Value-added Trait Integration
  14. 6: Optimization of Product Pipeline
  15. 7: Launching Improved Cultivars
  16. Back Matter
  17. Index
  18. Glossary
  19. Detailed Licensing
  20. 1: Applied Learning Activities
  21. Detailed Licensing