Book ID: 97696
Schlegel, Rolf H.J.
Dictionary of Plant Breeding. 2nd ed. 2009. figs. tabs. 563 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.
From Abaxial to Zymogram, the book contains clear and usefuldefinitions of the terms associated with plant breeding and related scientific/technological disciplines. This second edition defines jargon, provides helpful tables, examples, and breeding schemes, and includes a list of crop plants with salient details. Packed with data and organized to make that data easy to access, this revised and expanded reference provides comprehensive coverage of the latest discoveries in cytogenetics, molecular genetics, marker-assisted selection, experimental gene transfer, seed sciences, crop physiology, and genetically modified crops.