Plant Breeding: The Arnel R. Hallauer International Symposium
Contents: Preface. 1. Plant breeding: past, present, and future/Theodore M. Crosbie, Sam R. Eathington, G. Richard Johnson, Marlin Edwards, Robert Reiter, S. Stark, Radha G. Mohanty, Manuel Oyervides, Robert E. Buehler, Alan K. Walker, Raymond Dobert, Xavier Delannay, Jay C. Pershing, Michael A. Hall, and Kendall R. Lamkey. 2. Who are plant breeders, what do they do, and why?/James G. Coors. 3. Social and environmental benefits of plant breeding/Donald N. Duvick. 4. Defining and achieving plant-breeding goals/Arnel R. Hallauer and S. Pandey. 5. Improving the connection between effective crop conservation and breeding/S. Kresovich, A.M. Casa, A.J. Garris, S.E. Mitchell and M.T. Hamblin. 6. Breeding for cropping systems/E. Charles Brummer. 7. Participatory plant breeding: a market-oriented, Cost-effective approach/J.R. Witcombe, D.S. Virk, S.N. Goyal, D.N. Singh, M. Chakraborty, M. Billore, T.P. Tiwari, R. Pandya, P. Rokadia, A.R. Pathak and S.C. Prasad. 8. Plant breeding education/Elizabeth A. Lee and John W. Dudley. 9. Theoretical and biological foundations of plant breeding/J.B. Holland. 10. Integrating breeding tools to generate information for efficient breeding: past, present, and future/M. Cooper, O.S. Smith, R.E. Merrill, L. Arthur, D.W. Podlich and C.M. Loffler. 11. Genotype by environment interaction--basics and beyond/Fred Van Eeuwijk. 12. Applications of comparative genomics to crop improvement/Mark E. Sorrells. 13. Perspectives on finding and using quantitative disease resistance genes in Barley/P.M. Hayes, L. Marquez-Cedillo, C.C. Mundt, K. Richardson and M.I. Vales. 14. Breeding for resistance to abiotic stresses in rice: the value of quantitative trait loci/David J. Mackill. 15. The phenotypic and genotypic eras of plant breeding/Michael Lee. 16. The historical and biological basis of the concept of heterotic patterns in Corn Belt Dent Maize/W.F. Tracy and M.A. Chandler. 17. Hybrid and open-pollinated varieties in modern agriculture/Kevin V. Pixley. 18. Breeding vegetatively propagated crops/Rodomiro Ortiz, Carine Dochez, Robert Asiedu, and Francis Moonan. 19. Origins of fruit culture and fruit breeding/Jules Janik. 20. Sugarcane genomics and breeding/Kuo-Kao Wu, Ray Ming, Paul H. Moore, and Andrew H. Paterson. 21. Improving tolerance to abiotic stresses in staple crops: a random or planned process?/Gregory Edmeades, Marianne Banziger, Hugo Campos and Jeffrey Schussler. 22. Breeding for resistance of biotic stresses/R.P. Singh, J. Huerta-Espino, and M. William. 23. Breeding for increased forage quality/M.D. Casler. 24. Breeding for Grain amino acid composition in maize/Audrey Darrigues, Kendall R. Lamkey and M. Paul Scott. 25. Derivation of open-pollinated inbred lines and their relation to Z-lines for cyclic hybridization/Fidel Marquez-Sanchez. 26. Breeding maize exotic germplasm/F.J. Betran, K. Mayfield, T. Isakeit and M. Menz. 27. Development of a heterotic pattern in orange flint maize/Guillermo Eyherabide, Graciela Nestares, and Maria Jose Hourquescos.
"Plant breeding practices have improved the livelihoods of millions. Current breeding practices have allowed farmers to produce enough crops to feed growing populations, added significant profits in the grain trade, and minimized the amount of land needed for agricultural production by permitting more intensive use of existing crop lands. This volume reviews the status of the major challenges, approaches, and accomplishments of plant breeding programs from around the world.
The coverage is broad and comprehensive and provides the latest developments affecting grains, trees fruits, nuts, and forage crops." (jacket)
