Potato Breeding: Theory and Practice /
The potato (Solanum tuberosum) is the world's fourth most important food crop after maize, rice and wheat with 377 million tonnes fresh-weight of tubers produced in 2016 from 19.2 million hectares of land, in 163 countries, giving a global average yield of 19.6 t ha-1 (http://faostat.fao.org)....
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| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2021. |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Domestication to 21st century cultivars (id est historical introduction but including some modern analysis)
- 2. Need for new cultivars (FAO objectives, yield gap, nutritional value, ideotypes, climate change, end uses and target environments)
- 3. Utilization of germplasm: wild relatives, land races and modern cultivars (recent molecular studies and genetic structure of landraces, revised taxonomy of wild relatives)
- 4. Utilization of genes and their alleles (major genes, QTLs of large effect and polygenes)
- 5. Introgression breeding (diploid, tetraploid and marker-assisted)
- 6. Population improvement (diploid and tetraploid, base broadening, combining major genes and QTLs and combining polygenes through genomic selection)
- 7. Breeding clonally propagated cultivars (diploid and tetraploid, multistage and multi-trait selection)
- 8. Seed-tuber production (including problems faced by poor farmers in 'developing countries')
- 9. Breeding TPS propagated cultivars (diploid and tetraploid)
- 10. Breeding diploid F1 hybrids for TPS propagation
- 11. Genetically modified potatoes
- 12. Breeding for disease and pest resistance (theory, practice and problems)
- Index.