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Plant Breeding and Whole-System Crop Physiology - Improving Adaptation, Maturity and Yield (Hardcover)
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Plant Breeding and Whole-System Crop Physiology - Improving Adaptation, Maturity and Yield (Hardcover)
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Improvements in adaptation and maturity leading to greater yield
are the most important criteria for the acceptance of a new crop
cultivar, since it is the yield which dictates the economic value
of the crop. Therefore, yield improvement is one goal of virtually
every crop breeding program. Many such programs have tended to
concentrate on identifying the genetic traits responsible for
higher yield and selecting each of them in the later stages of the
breeding cycle. However, selection for yield per se is still the
most effective method, since it is a combination of traits,
operating within the limits of the system, which finally determines
yield. This book presents a whole-system, or holistic viewpoint for
the improvement of adaptation, maturity and yield. Central to its
thesis is recognition that system-established changes in levels of
the components of the plant system, within a constant capacity,
i.e. within the limitations of the system, determines yield and
other cultivar characteristics. It goes on to describe how this can
improve our understanding of plant systems and enable breeders to
maximize performance under prevailing field conditions. Based
principally on 25 years of research by the authors, the ideas
presented in this book are essential reading for crop physiologists
and plant breeders.
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