Best Book Collection for Plant Breeding and Genetics

If you are looking for some of the best book suggestion for Plant breeding and genetics to broaden your knowledge, then these plant breeding books will prove very useful to you. We have selected some of the most trusted and best selling famous breeding book for you.

Principles of plant genetics

Principles of Genetics by Josh Acquaah is a famous plant breeder and he is the author of this plant breeding gem. This book contains all the information for principles of genetics.

Detailed description of principles of genetics Book by Josh Acquaah

To respond to the increasing need to feed the world's population as well as an ever greater demand for a balanced and healthy diet there is a continuing need to produce improved new cultivars or varieties of plants, particularly crop plants. The strategies used to produce these are increasingly based on our knowledge of relevant science, particularly genetics, but involves a multidisciplinary understanding that optimizes the approaches taken.

Principles of Plant Genetics and Breeding, 2nd Edition introduces both classical and molecular tools for plant breeding. Topics such as biotechnology in plant breeding, intellectual property, risks, emerging concepts (decentralized breeding, organic breeding), and more are addressed in the new, updated edition of this text. Industry highlight boxes are included throughout the text to contextualize the information given through the professional experiences of plant breeders. The final chapters provide a useful reference on breeding the largest and most common crops.

• Up-to-date edition of this bestselling book incorporating the most recent technologies in the field
• Combines both theory and practice in modern plant breeding
• Updated industry highlights help to illustrate the concepts outlined in the text
• Self assessment questions at the end of each chapter aid student learning
• Accompanying website with artwork from the book available to instructors

 

Plants from Test Tubes: An Introduction to Micropropogation

Get the best plant breeding book "Plants from test tubes: An introduction to Micropropagation by  Holly Scoggins. It covers all the aspects of tissue culturing and micro propagation in plants. It is the forth edition and it give a detailed introduction to Micro propagation. 

Detailed introduction of Plants from Test Tubes: An introduction to Micro propagation

Thirty years ago, in vitro propagation was a new technique for producing plants, and Lydiane Kyte’s Plants from Test Tubes became the standard work on the topic.

The new fourth edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the many advances in science and technology, including the five accepted sequential stages of micropropagation. Ten new plants have been added. This in turn has greatly expanded the already extensive bibliography. Among the new topics that have been introduced or expanded on are embryo culture for breeding, somaclonal variation, anther culture, somatic embryogenesis, cryopreservation, and genetic engineering. More ornamental plant examples are given and many new illustrations provided, including a chronology of discoveries in micro-propagation.

Plant Breeding for the Home Gardener: How to Create Unique Vegetables and Flowers

Checkout this book written by Joseph Tychonievich. It covers all the aspects of home gardening. It is very useful for person who love to do gardening. It includes many practices for growing vegetables and flowers with helpful plant breeding methods to get more fruitful results.

Plant Breeding for the Home Gardener makes it easier than ever to breed and grow your own varieties of vegetables and flowers. This comprehensive and accessible guide explains how to decide what to breed, provides simple explanations on how to cross plants, and features a basic primer on genetics and advanced techniques. Case studies provide breeding examples for favorite plants like daffodils, hollyhocks, roses, sweet corn, and tomatoes.

Hybrid: The History And Science Of Plant Breeding

Checkout this book by the author Noel Kingsbury.It is the go to book for Hybrid plant history and their role in plant breeding and genetics. It covers all the aspects of plant breeding and genetics.

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Disheartened by the shrink-wrapped, Styrofoam-packed state of contemporary supermarket fruits and vegetables, many shoppers hark back to a more innocent time, to visions of succulent red tomatoes plucked straight from the vine, gleaming orange carrots pulled from loamy brown soil, swirling heads of green lettuce basking in the sun.

With Hybrid, Noel Kingsbury reveals that even those imaginary perfect foods are themselves far from anything that could properly be called natural; rather, they represent the end of a millennia-long history of selective breeding and hybridization. Starting his story at the birth of agriculture, Kingsbury traces the history of human attempts to make plants more reliable, productive, and nutritious—a story that owes as much to accident and error as to innovation and experiment. Drawing on historical and scientific accounts, as well as a rich trove of anecdotes, Kingsbury shows how scientists, amateur breeders, and countless anonymous farmers and gardeners slowly caused the evolutionary pressures of nature to be supplanted by those of human needs—and thus led us from sparse wild grasses to succulent corn cobs, and from mealy, white wild carrots to the juicy vegetables we enjoy today. At the same time, Kingsbury reminds us that contemporary controversies over the Green Revolution and genetically modified crops are not new; plant breeding has always had a political dimension.

A powerful reminder of the complicated and ever-evolving relationship between humans and the natural world, Hybrid will give readers a thoughtful new perspective on—and a renewed appreciation of—the cereal crops, vegetables, fruits, and flowers that are central to our way of life.