Principles of Plant Genetics and Breeding. George Acquaah

rel="nofollow" href="#ulink_6954ebdc-7d07-5d8d-a817-8bb554a6f714">S1.9 Nucleic acids: structure and function S1.10 Central dogma of molecular biology S1.11 Expression of genetic information S1.12 Protein structure S1.13 Regulation of gene expression S1.14 Synteny and plant breeding b b

      21  S2 S2Common statistical methods in plantbreeding S2.1 Role of statistics in plant breeding S2.2 Population versus sample S2.3 The issue of causality S2.4 Statistical hypothesis S2.5 Concept of statistical error S2.6 Principles of experimental design S2.7 Probability S2.8 Measures of central tendency S2.9 Measures of dispersion S2.10 Standard deviation S2.11 The normal distribution S2.12 Coefficient of variation S2.13 Standard error of the mean S2.14 Simple linear correlation S2.15 Simple linear regression S2.16 Chi‐square test S2.17 t‐test S2.18 Analysis of variance S2.19 Multivariate statistics in plant breeding S2.20 Path analysis Key references and suggested reading Outcomes assessment

      22  Glossary of terms

      23  Index

      24  End User License Agreement

      List of Tables

      1 Chapter 1Table 1.1 Twenty‐five major food crops of the world.Table 1.2 An operational classification of technologies of plant breeding.Table 1.3 Selected seed companies in various parts of the world.Table 1.4 Selected milestones in plant breeding.

      2 Chapter 4Table 4.1 Transgressive segregation.Table 4.2 Heritability (broad sense) estimates of some plant architectural tr...Table 4.3 Calculating general and specific combining abilities.

      3 Chapter 5Table 5.1 Pollination mechanisms in plants.Table 5.2 Examples of predominantly self‐pollinated species.Table B5.1 Old and new names of tomato and its wild relatives.Table 5.3 Examples of predominantly cross‐pollinated species.

      4 Chapter 6Table 6.1 The variability in an F₂ population as affected by the number of ge...Table 6.2 A summary of the reproductive isolation barriers in plants as first...

      5 Chapter 7Table 7.1 List of crops where desirable and heritable somaclonal variations h...

      6 Chapter 8Table 8.1 The five kingdoms of organisms as described by Whitaker.Table 8.2 Divisions in the Kingdom Plantae.Table 8.3 Important field crop families in the Division Magnoliophyta (Flower...

      7 Chapter 9Table 9.1 Important centers of diversity.Table 9.2 Characteristics of domestication syndrome traits.

      8 Chapter 10Table B10.1 Conservation methods for different categories of diversity rated ...Table B10.2 Varieties registered from 1973 to 1990 proved to have been develo...Table 10.1 Germplasm holdings in germplasm banks in the US.Table 10.2 Germplasm holdings at the International Agricultural Research Cent...

      9 Chapter 11Table B11.1 Characters listed in the current UK recommended lists of barley.

      10 Chapter 12Table 12.1 Essential amino acids that are low in selected major world food cr...Table B12.1 List of key traits of importance incorporated into biofortified m...Table B12.2 Description of sites used for the advanced yield and on‐farm tria...Table 12.2 Essential amino acids in animal/human nutrition.

      11 Chapter 15Table 15.1 Relative salt tolerance in plants.Table 15.2 Examples of warm‐ and cool‐season crops.Table 15.3 Summary of selected plant essential mineral nutrients and their ro...Table 15.4 Common deficiency symptoms of selected plant essential nutrient el...

      12 Chapter 16Table 16.1 The concept of congruency backcross.

      13 Chapter 19Table B19.1 Yam selection traits and improvement goal.

      14 Chapter 20Table B20.1 Garcinia accession studied.Table 20.1 A comparison of different molecular markers.

      15 Chapter 22Table 22.1 Comparing NGS with Sanger sequencing method.

      16 Chapter 24Table B24.1 Some remarks on the properties and limitations of two experimenta...

      17 Chapter 25Table 25.1 Examples of commonly used physical mutagens.Table 25.2 Examples of commonly used chemical mutagens.Table 25.3 Selected general areas of achievement in mutation breeding.

      18 Chapter 26Table 26.1 Polyploid series of selected species.Table 26.2 Classification of polyploidy.Table 26.3 Naming of polyploids.Table 26.4 Genetics of autoploids.Table 26.5 Genetic frequencies following chromosome segregation of autotetrap...Table 26.6 Multiple allelelism in autotetraploids.Table 26.7 Aneuploid