Plant Breeding in the 1990s. Proceedings of the Symposium on Plant Breeding in the 1990s,Raleigh, NC,March 1991.Publ.1992.Illustr.539 p. gr8vo.Hardcover.

Contents (partly): The gene base for plant breeding (Availability ofplant germplasm for use in crop improvement, T.T.Chang/ Use of geneticvariation for breeding populations in cross-pollinated species, ArnelR.Hallauer/ Genetic variation: Its origin and use for breedingself-pollinated species, P.S.Baenziger and C.J.Peterson/ etc.)/Modification of plants to tolerate environmental stresses (Mechanismsfor obtaining water use efficiency and drought resistance, J.S.Boyer/Genetic basis of plant tolerance of soil toxicity, J.Dvorak, E.Epstein,A.Galvez, P.Gulick and J.A.Omielan/ etc.)/ Modification of plants totolerate stresses due to diseases and insects (Selecting components ofpartial resistance, J.E.Parlevliet/ Selecting rice for simply inheritedresistances, Gurdev S.Khush/ Emerging breeding strategies for insectresistance, O.M.P. de Ponti and C.Mollema)/ Contributions ofbiotechnology to plant improvement (RFLP analyses for manipulatingagronomic traits in plants, T.G.Helentjaris/ Identification andisolation of agronomically important genes from plants, S.P.Briggs/Novel approaches to the induction of genetic variation and plantbreeding implications, R.L.Phillips, D.J.Plunkett and S.M.Kaeppler/etc.)/ Strategies for utilizing unadapted germplasm/ Symposium overview.