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Plant Breeding - Principles and prospects (Hardcover, 1993 ed.)
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Plant Breeding - Principles and prospects (Hardcover, 1993 ed.)
Series: Plant Breeding
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Our requirement for plant breeders to be successful has never been
greater. However one views the forecasted numbers for future
population growth we will need, in the immediate future, to be
feeding, clothing and housing many more people than we do,
inadequately, at present. Plant breeding represents the most
valuable strategy in increasing our productivity in a way that is
sustainable and environmentally sensitive. Plant breeding can
rightly be considered as one of the oldest multidisciplinary
subjects that is known to humans. It was practised by people who
first started to carry out a settled form of agriculture. The art,
as it must have been at that stage, was applied without any formal
underlying framework, but achieved dramatic results, as witnessed
by the forms of cultivated plants we have today. We are now
learning how to apply successfully the results of yet imperfect
scientific knowledge. This knowledge is, however, rapidly
developing, particularly in areas of tissue culture, biotechnology
and molecular biology. Plant breeding's inherent multifaceted
nature means that alongside obvious subject areas like genetics we
also need to consider areas such as: statistics, physiology, plant
pathology, entomology, biochemistry, weed science, quality, seed
characteristics, repro ductive biology, trial design, selection and
computing. It therefore seems apparent that modern plant breeders
need to have a grasp of wide range of scientific knowledge and
expertise if they are successfully to a exploit the techniques,
protocols and strategies which are open to them.
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