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In Vitro Haploid Production in Higher Plants - Volume 2: Applications (Hardcover, 1996 ed.)
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In Vitro Haploid Production in Higher Plants - Volume 2: Applications (Hardcover, 1996 ed.)
Series: Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture, 24
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Since the beginning of agricultural production, there has been a
continuous effort to grow more and better quality food to feed ever
increasing popula tions. Both improved cultural practices and
improved crop plants have al lowed us to divert more human
resources to non-agricultural activities while still increasing
agricultural production. Malthusian population predictions continue
to alarm agricultural researchers, especially plant breeders, to
seek new technologies that will continue to allow us to produce
more and better food by fewer people on less land. Both improvement
of existing cultivars and development of new high-yielding
cultivars are common goals for breeders of all crops. In vitro
haploid production is among the new technologies that show great
promise toward the goal of increasing crop yields by making similar
germplasm available for many crops that was used to implement one
of the greatest plant breeding success stories of this century, i.
e., the development of hybrid maize by crosses of inbred lines. One
of the main applications of anther culture has been to produce
diploid homozygous pure lines in a single generation, thus saving
many generations of backcrossing to reach homozygosity by
traditional means or in crops where self-pollination is not
possible. Because doubled haploids are equivalent to inbred lines,
their value has been appreciated by plant breeders for decades. The
search for natural haploids and methods to induce them has been
ongoing since the beginning of the 20th century."
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