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Chromosome Engineering in Plants, Part A: Genetics, Breeding, Evolution

Out of Print
Edited By: T Tsuchiya
656 pages
Publisher: Elsevier
Chromosome Engineering in Plants, Part A: Genetics, Breeding, Evolution
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  • Chromosome Engineering in Plants, Part A: Genetics, Breeding, Evolution ISBN: 9780444882592 Hardback May 1991 Out of Print #19954
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About this book

Deals with cytogenetics of plant materials including legumes, vegetable and oil crops, sugar crops, forage crops, fibre crops, medicinal crops and ornamentals.

Contents

Preface. List of Contributors. SECTION A - GENERAL FEATURES. 1. Chromosome Manipulations in Higher Plants - An Overview (P.K. Gupta and T. Tsuchiya). 2. Terminology of Chromosome Numbers (A. Levan and A. Muntzing). 3. Genetic Engineering in Crop Improvement (W. Rohde, A. Marocco and F. Salamini). 4. Variation in Nuclear and Individual Chromosomal DNA Content and its Role in Evolution of Plants (Y. Furuta and K. Nishikawa). 5. Cytogenetics of Chromosome Interchanges in Plants (P.K. Gupta and S.N. Gupta). 6. Karyotype Reconstruction in Plants with Special Emphasis on Vicia faba L. (I. Schubert, R. Rieger and G. Kunzel). 7. Cytogenetics of B-Chromosomes in Crops (R.N. Jones). 8. Cytogenetics of Polyploids and Their Diploid Progenitors (R.C. Jackson). 9. Monosomic Analysis in Maize and Other Diploid Crop Plants (D.F. Weber). 10. Cytogenetic Changes During Seed Storage (M. Murato). 11. Apomixis in Crop Plants - Cytogenetic Basis and Role in Plant Breeding (W.W. Hanna). SECTION B - CEREALS (AND MILLETS). 12. Cytogenetics of Wheat and its Close Wild Relatives - Triticum and Aegilops (P.K. Gupta). 13. Molecular Genetics of Wheat (P.K. Gupta, I. Altosaar and D.K. Garg). 14. Alien Genetic Variation in Wheat Improvement (A.K.M.R. Islam and K.W. Shepherd). 15. Chromosome Manipulation in Secale [Rye] (F.J. Zeller and M.-C. Cermen#o). 16. Cytogenetics of Triticale - A Man-Made Cereal (P.K. Cupta and V.R.K. Reddy). 17. Chromosome Mapping by Means of Aneuploid Analysis in Barley (T. Tsuchiya). 18. Chromosome Manipulations in Barley Breeding (R.T. Ramage). 19. Production and Analysis of Chromosome Duplications in Barley (A. Hagberg and P. Hagberg). 20. Interspecific Hybrids within the Genus Hordeum (R. von Bothmer and N. Jacobsen). 21. Intergenetic Hybrids involving the Genus Hordeum (G. Fedak). 22. The Chromosomes of Avena (T. Rajhathy). 23. The Cytogenetic Evolution of Triticeae Grasses (S. Sakamoto). 24. Cytogenetics of Zea and Tripsacum (J.M.J. de Wet). 25. Cytogenetic, Genetic and Plant Breeding Applications of B-A Translocations in Maize (J.B. Beckett). 26. Chromosome Manipulations in Maize (J.A. Birchler). 27. Molecular Analysis of the Nucleolus Organizer Region in Maize (M.D. McMullen, R.L. Phillips and I. Rubenstein). 28. Chromosome Architecture and Aneuploidy in Rice (G.S. Khush and R.J. Singh). 29. Pearl Millet Cytogenetics (J.L. Minocha). 30. Cytogenetics of Minor Millets (M.S. Chennaveeraiah and S.C. Hiremath). Index.

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Out of Print
Edited By: T Tsuchiya
656 pages
Publisher: Elsevier
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