Genetic and Production Innovations in Field Crop Technology : New Developments in Theory and Practice
Contents: Preface. 1. Is crop improvement still needed?/L.T. Evans. 2. Crop breeding in the twenty-first century/Donald N. Duvick. 3. Scientific breakthroughs and plant breeding/Gurdev S. Khush. 4. Designing for and analyzing results from field experiments/Walter T. Federer and Jose Crossa. 5. Physiological determinants of crop growth and yield in Maize, sunflower and soybean: their application to crop management, modeling and breeding/F.H. Andrade, V.O. Sadras, C.R.C. Vega and L. Echarte. 6. Genetic diversity in crop improvement: the soybean experience/Clay H. Sneller, Randall L. Nelson, T.E. Carter and Zhanglin Cui. 7. Advances in breeding of seed-quality traits in soybean/Istvan Rajcan, Guangyun Hou and Aron D. Weir. 8. At last, another record corn crop/A. Forrest Troyer and Darrel Good. 9. Breeding Cassava for underprivileged: institutional socio-economic and biological factors for success/Kazuo Kawano and James H. Cock. 10. Yielding potential of rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) in sub-optimal environments/P.M. Priyadarshan, T.T.T. Hoa, H. Huasun and P. De S. Goncalves. 11. Characterization of environments and genotypes for analyzing genotype X environment interaction: some recent advances in winter wheat and prospects for QTL detection/M. Leflon, C. Lecomte, A. Barbottin, M.H. Jeuffroy, N. Robert and M. Brancourt-Hulmel. 12. QTL identification, mega-environment classification, and strategy development for marker-based selection using biplots/Weikai Yan, Nicholas A. Tinker and Duane E. Falk. 13. Scheffe-Calinski and Shukla models: their interpretation and usefulness in stability and adaptation analyses/Wieslaw Madry and Manjit S. Kang. Index.
