Principles of Plant Genetics and Breeding. George Acquaah

references and suggested reading Outcomes assessment 10 Plant genetic resources 10.1 Importance of germplasm to plant breeding 10.2 Centers of diversity in plant breeding 10.3 Sources of germplasm for plant breeding 10.4 Concept of genetic vulnerability 10.5 What plant breeders can do to address crop vulnerability 10.6 Wild (exotic) germplasm in plant breeding 10.7 Plant genetic resources conservation 10.8 Nature of cultivated plant genetic resources 10.9 Approaches to germplasm conservation 10.10 Germplasm collection 10.11 Types of plant germplasm collections 10.12 Managing plant genetic resources 10.13 Issue of redundancy and the concept of core subsets 10.14 Germplasm storage technologies 10.15 Using genetic resources 10.16 Plant explorations and introductions and their impact on agriculture 10.17 International conservation efforts 10.18 An example of a national germplasm conservation system 10.19 Who owns biodiversity? 10.20 Understanding the genetic architecture of germplasm for crop improvement Key references and suggested reading Internet resources Outcomes assessment

      10  Section 5: Breeding objectives 11 Yield andmorphological traits 11.1 Physiological traits 11.2 What is yield? 11.3 Biological versus economic yield 11.4 The ideotype concept 11.5 Improving the efficiency of dry matter partitioning 11.6 Harvest index as a selection criterion for yield 11.7 Selecting for yield per se 11.8 Biological pathway to economic yield 11.9 The concept of yield potential 11.10 The concept of yield plateau 11.11 Yield stability 11.12 Lodging resistance 11.13 Shattering resistance 11.14 Reduced plant height 11.15 Breeding determinacy 11.16 Photoperiod response 11.17 Early maturity Key references and suggested reading Outcomes assessment 12 Quality traits 12.1 Concept of quality 12.2 Nutritional quality of food crops 12.3 Brief history of breeding for improved nutritional quality of crops 12.4 Breeding for improved protein content 12.5 Improving protein content by genetic engineering 12.6 Breeding improved oil quality 12.7 Breeding low phytate cultivar 12.8 Breeding end‐use quality 12.9 Breeding seedlessness 12.10 Breeding for industrial uses 12.11 Breeding plants for novel traits 12.12 Breeding for enhanced bioavailable micronutrients Key references and suggested reading Internet resources Outcomes assessment 13 Environmental stress factors and plant breeding 13.1 Environmental stress factors in crop production 13.2 Climate change and plant breeding 13.3 Crop production environment and stress 13.4 Abiotic environmental stress factors 13.5 Biotic environmental stress factors 13.6 Effects of combined stresses 13.7 Impact of environmental stress factors in crop production Key references and suggested reading Outcomes assessment 14

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