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Book Relationship of Per Se Performance of Parents Hybrids with Their General specific Combining Ability for Seed Yield and Its Component Traits in Sunflower  Helianthus Annuus L

Download or read book Relationship of Per Se Performance of Parents Hybrids with Their General specific Combining Ability for Seed Yield and Its Component Traits in Sunflower Helianthus Annuus L written by Vijayalaxmi Bavage and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Plant Breeding Abstracts

Download or read book Plant Breeding Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 1212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Indian Science Abstracts

Download or read book Indian Science Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 1072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Agrindex

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  • Release : 1995
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  • Pages : 822 pages

Download or read book Agrindex written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Biotechnology Research Abstracts

Download or read book Biotechnology Research Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monthly. Classified listing of references to worldwide articles dealing with all aspects of biotechnology. Also includes books and conferences. Each entry gives bibliographic information, institutional address of author(s), and abstract. Author and subject index.

Book The Biology of Nectaries

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  • Author : Barbara Bentley
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 1983
  • ISBN : 9780231044462
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book The Biology of Nectaries written by Barbara Bentley and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Quantitative Genetics in Maize Breeding

Download or read book Quantitative Genetics in Maize Breeding written by Arnel R. Hallauer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 669 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maize is used in an endless list of products that are directly or indirectly related to human nutrition and food security. Maize is grown in producer farms, farmers depend on genetically improved cultivars, and maize breeders develop improved maize cultivars for farmers. Nikolai I. Vavilov defined plant breeding as plant evolution directed by man. Among crops, maize is one of the most successful examples for breeder-directed evolution. Maize is a cross-pollinated species with unique and separate male and female organs allowing techniques from both self and cross-pollinated crops to be utilized. As a consequence, a diverse set of breeding methods can be utilized for the development of various maize cultivar types for all economic conditions (e.g., improved populations, inbred lines, and their hybrids for different types of markets). Maize breeding is the science of maize cultivar development. Public investment in maize breeding from 1865 to 1996 was $3 billion (Crosbie et al., 2004) and the return on investment was $260 billion as a consequence of applied maize breeding, even without full understanding of the genetic basis of heterosis. The principles of quantitative genetics have been successfully applied by maize breeders worldwide to adapt and improve germplasm sources of cultivars for very simple traits (e.g. maize flowering) and very complex ones (e.g., grain yield). For instance, genomic efforts have isolated early-maturing genes and QTL for potential MAS but very simple and low cost phenotypic efforts have caused significant and fast genetic progress across genotypes moving elite tropical and late temperate maize northward with minimal investment. Quantitative genetics has allowed the integration of pre-breeding with cultivar development by characterizing populations genetically, adapting them to places never thought of (e.g., tropical to short-seasons), improving them by all sorts of intra- and inter-population recurrent selection methods, extracting lines with more probability of success, and exploiting inbreeding and heterosis. Quantitative genetics in maize breeding has improved the odds of developing outstanding maize cultivars from genetically broad based improved populations such as B73. The inbred-hybrid concept in maize was a public sector invention 100 years ago and it is still considered one of the greatest achievements in plant breeding. Maize hybrids grown by farmers today are still produced following this methodology and there is still no limit to genetic improvement when most genes are targeted in the breeding process. Heterotic effects are unique for each hybrid and exotic genetic materials (e.g., tropical, early maturing) carry useful alleles for complex traits not present in the B73 genome just sequenced while increasing the genetic diversity of U.S. hybrids. Breeding programs based on classical quantitative genetics and selection methods will be the basis for proving theoretical approaches on breeding plans based on molecular markers. Mating designs still offer large sample sizes when compared to QTL approaches and there is still a need to successful integration of these methods. There is a need to increase the genetic diversity of maize hybrids available in the market (e.g., there is a need to increase the number of early maturing testers in the northern U.S.). Public programs can still develop new and genetically diverse products not available in industry. However, public U.S. maize breeding programs have either been discontinued or are eroding because of decreasing state and federal funding toward basic science. Future significant genetic gains in maize are dependent on the incorporation of useful and unique genetic diversity not available in industry (e.g., NDSU EarlyGEM lines). The integration of pre-breeding methods with cultivar development should enhance future breeding efforts to maintain active public breeding programs not only adapting and improving genetically broad-based germplasm but also developing unique products and training the next generation of maize breeders producing research dissertations directly linked to breeding programs. This is especially important in areas where commercial hybrids are not locally bred. More than ever public and private institutions are encouraged to cooperate in order to share breeding rights, research goals, winter nurseries, managed stress environments, and latest technology for the benefit of producing the best possible hybrids for farmers with the least cost. We have the opportunity to link both classical and modern technology for the benefit of breeding in close cooperation with industry without the need for investing in academic labs and time (e.g., industry labs take a week vs months/years in academic labs for the same work). This volume, as part of the Handbook of Plant Breeding series, aims to increase awareness of the relative value and impact of maize breeding for food, feed, and fuel security. Without breeding programs continuously developing improved germplasm, no technology can develop improved cultivars. Quantitative Genetics in Maize Breeding presents principles and data that can be applied to maximize genetic improvement of germplasm and develop superior genotypes in different crops. The topics included should be of interest of graduate students and breeders conducting research not only on breeding and selection methods but also developing pure lines and hybrid cultivars in crop species. This volume is a unique and permanent contribution to breeders, geneticists, students, policy makers, and land-grant institutions still promoting quality research in applied plant breeding as opposed to promoting grant monies and indirect costs at any short-term cost. The book is dedicated to those who envision the development of the next generation of cultivars with less need of water and inputs, with better nutrition; and with higher percentages of exotic germplasm as well as those that pursue independent research goals before searching for funding. Scientists are encouraged to use all possible breeding methodologies available (e.g., transgenics, classical breeding, MAS, and all possible combinations could be used with specific sound long and short-term goals on mind) once germplasm is chosen making wise decisions with proven and scientifically sound technologies for assisting current breeding efforts depending on the particular trait under selection. Arnel R. Hallauer is C. F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor in Agriculture (Emeritus) at Iowa State University (ISU). Dr. Hallauer has led maize-breeding research for mid-season maturity at ISU since 1958. His work has had a worldwide impact on plant-breeding programs, industry, and students and was named a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Hallauer is a native of Kansas, USA. José B. Miranda Filho is full-professor in the Department of Genetics, Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz - University of São Paulo located at Piracicaba, Brazil. His research interests have emphasized development of quantitative genetic theory and its application to maize breeding. Miranda Filho is native of Pirassununga, São Paulo, Brazil. M.J. Carena is professor of plant sciences at North Dakota State University (NDSU). Dr. Carena has led maize-breeding research for short-season maturity at NDSU since 1999. This program is currently one the of the few public U.S. programs left integrating pre-breeding with cultivar development and training in applied maize breeding. He teaches Quantitative Genetics and Crop Breeding Techniques at NDSU. Carena is a native of Buenos Aires, Argentina. http://www.ag.ndsu.nodak.edu/plantsci/faculty/Carena.htm

Book Genetic Basis of Achene Yield and Oil Contents in Sunflower

Download or read book Genetic Basis of Achene Yield and Oil Contents in Sunflower written by Naila Kanwal and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cultivated sunflower scientifically is Helianthus annuus L. that belongs to family Asteraceae. It is a diploid specie (2n = 2x = 34) that belongs to the sub tribe Helianthinae, subfamily Asteroideae. The genus Helianthus includes 12 annual and 36 perennial species. Sunflower, in Pakistan is cultivated on 443.2 thousand hectares with the seed production of 643 thousand tones and oil production of 244 thousand tones.Sunflower is highly cross pollinated crop and is ideally suited for heterosis exploitation. In sunflower, heterosis breeding evolved successfully as the detection of cytoplasmic male sterility source. The line x tester analysis is an efficient method to assess the large number of inbreds and it provides the information on the relative importance of general and specific combining ability effects to understand the genetic basis of important plant characters viz., plant height, head diameter, stem diameter, achene weight, achene yield and oil contents etc. The general combining ability (GCA) of line means the average value of its performance in hybrids when crossed with other lines. The specific combining ability (SCA) means the performance of individual hybrids.

Book Combining Ability and Heterosis in Rapeseed

Download or read book Combining Ability and Heterosis in Rapeseed written by Oliul Hassan and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study was initiated to evaluate six female parents (CMS lines) and 3 male parents (testers) in a line x tester mating design at the research field of Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, during November 2009 to March 2010 to estimate their combining ability and heterosis.BARI Sharisha-7 was taken as check. The data recorded on 18 F1s and their parents for their combining ability indicated that GCA effect was significant for days to fifty percent flowering, plant height, No. of siliqua per plant, seed per siliqua, primary branches &secondary branches per plant and seed yield per plant . The specific combining ability (SCA) effect was significant for all the characters. High ratio of SCA and GCA variance was observed, indicating preponderance of non additive gene effects in the inheritance of the yield and yield relating characters under study. Among the lines, CMS2, CMS3 and CMS5 were found good general combiners. But seven hybrids were found good specific combiner among eighteen hybrids. The average heterosis for seed yield of eighteen hybrids over mid parent was 19.26% and that of better parent and standard check was7.96% and 73.90% respectively."

Book Proceedings

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  • Release : 1982
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  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book Proceedings written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morphological differences between high and low yielding hybrids of sunflower; A study of the morphological characters of sunflower achenes in relation to their emergence under adverse conditions; The effects of ethephon on dormant seeds of cultivated sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.); Pathways of yields elaboration in sunflower under various water stresses; The behaviour of some sunflower genotypes (Helianthus annuus L.) under various flooding regimes; Tolerance of sunflower hybrids to competition among plants; Growth analysis irrigated sunflower at two plant populations; Estimation of leaf area on sunflower plants; Photosynthesis in sunflower leaves: RUBP carboxylates properties activities and quantitative determination; Effects of defoliation during seed filling of sunflower plants; Evolution for biosynthesis during the cycle of development of sunflower, and assimilates partition among organs and constituents; The sunflower roots activity in the field; Effect of daylength in the time of inflorescence initiation and rate of post-initiation development in two early sunflower cultivars; Yield and harvest index of sunflower cultivars: influence of duration and water stress; Determination of physiological nad harvest maturity in sunflower; Effect of physiological maturation on quantitative characters of sunflower varieties and hybrids; Growth and development of sunflower in a semi-arid environment; Determination of regional strategies for sunflower production; Effect of early spring planting of sunflower on yield in Iraq; Oil content oi oilseed sunflower (Helianthus annuu L.) hybrids grown in Texas, USA; Effect of the planting date of sunflowers on the agronomic characteristics and on the quantity and quality of oil; A technique for selecting sunflower genotypes with temperature-stable linoleic acid synthesis; Water requirement of sunflower in a semi-arid environment; Effect of irrigation on water use pattern in sunflower root zone; Influence of plant population on phasic development, growth, yield and water use of irrigated sunflower in a semi-arid environment; The response of sunflower to strategies of irrigation; Salinity and sunflower agronomy in Egypt; Effect of sodium chloride on the lipid composition of sunflower oil; Nitrogen nutrition of sunflower with special reference to nitrogen stress; Effect of nutritional and cultural treatments on seed production on winter grown sunflower; The response of irrigated sunflower cultivars to nitrogen fertilizer; Studies of the uptake of soil and fertilizer nitrogen by sunflower using 15-N techniques; Interactions between moisture supply, N and P, in the performance of an open-pollinated and a hybrid sunflower variety in a semi-arid environment; Differential response to two sunflower cultivars to boron fertilization; Effect of phosphorus and nitrogen fertilization levels on the yield and oil content of sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.); Pollination studies in hybrid sunflower seed production; Sunflower hollow seededness and nitrogen fertilization in relation to harvest time; Effect of achene (seed) size on subsequent growth and development of hybrid sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.); Behaviour of NS sunflower hybrids harvested at different seed moistures; Evaluation of losses in the harvesting of sunflower; Maturity and seed quality in sunflower: physiobiochemical assessment through accelerated ageing; Irrigated sunflower production from the red-brown soils of Northern Victoria; Irrigated sunflower in the Ord River Valley; Potential for pest management in sunflowers in Australia; Insect and mite pests of Queensland sunflowers; Seasonal abundance of the Rutherglen bug (Nysius vinitor) on sunflowers and weeds in N.E. Victoria; Effect of moisture stress on damage to sunflowers by Rutherglen bug (Nysius vinitor); Sunflower seed yield as influenced by pollination and insect pests; Effect6 of maldison (malathion) ULV) on sunfloer insects; Phytomelanin: development and role in hybrid resistance of Homoeosoma electellum larvae (Lepidoptera: Pyrallidae); The control of alternaria blight of sunflowers in Eastern Australia; Some factors affecting the incidence and importance of sunflower rust in Australia; Investigations into increased rust (Puccinia helianthi) intensity on some hybrid sunflower cultivars grown in Queensland; Occurrence of sunflower diseases in Portugal in the last four years (1978 - 1981); White blister and petiole blight of sunflowers caused by Albugo tragopogonis; Stemphylium sp. the agent of reddish-brown spot on sunflowers stem; Further studies on the sunflower disease caused by Diaporthe (Phomopsis) helianthi and possibilities of breeding for resistance; A leaf spot disease of sunflower caused by Septoria sp.; The distribution, and incidence of charcoal rot of sunflower in Eastern Australia; Effect os stand density on the occurrence of charcoal rot and oil yield of some sunflower hybrids; Methods of studying the reaction of some cultivars and wild species of sunflower to infection by Sclerotinia sclerotiorum (Lib) de Bary; Field inoculation of sunflower for Sclerotinia sclerotiorum basal stalk rot and virulence of isolates from various hosts; Coniothyrium minitans as a treatment for sclerotinia wilt of sunflowers; The use of high frequency microwaves on sclerotia to control inoculum of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum; Use of the enzyme-linked immunosorbest assay (Elisa) for the detection of downy mildew (Plasmopara halstedii) in sunflower; Resistance to a new race of sunflower downy mildew; A new race of Verticillium dahliae; Models for potential status of infection: some aspects of the functioning of the climate x plant x pest system; Models for potential status of infection: application to sunflower-botrytis; A model for the development of grey mould (Botrytis cinerea) in sunflower heads; Losses caused in sunflowers by birds in Hungary; Pest status of parrot species on sunflowers in northern N.S.W.; An innovation in the control of galahs, Cacatua roseicapilla, and sulphur-crested cockatoos, Cacatua galerita, in sunflower; The economics of chemical dessication and mechanical drying as methods of reducing bird damage in sunflower; Very early combine harvesting of sunflower to avoid bird depredation; Allelopathic activity of cultivated sunflowers; Post-emergence weed control in sunflower; Information concerning the effect of cultivation as a complement for weed control; Utilization of wild Helianthus annuus in germplasm development; Cluster analysis of wild Helianthus annuus accessions; Variability on oil content in seed pf Helianthus spp.; Variation in oil and quality of wild annual sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) populations in a uniform environment; Variability in the composition of higher fatty acids in oil of sunflower inbreds with different oil contents in seed; Variability in protein and amino acid contents in different sunflower inbreds; Investigations into seedset in sunflowers; Effect of isolation bags on seedset in sunflowers; Effect of stigmatic manipulation of pollination and seedset in sunflowers; The inheritance of drought tolerance in sunflower; Inheritance of plant height and leaf number in diallel crossing of sunflower inbreds; Inheritance of trichome characteristics in sunflower, Helianthus spp.; Genetic implications in transfering fertility restorer genes to a new genetic background in sunflower Helianthus annuus L.); Correlations for important agronomic characters between parent lines and F1 hybrids of sunflower; Relationships among traits of inbreds and hybrids of sunflower; Maternal and embryo effects on the oleic and linoleic acid contents of sunflower oil; Maternal and paternal effects on the oil content of cypsela in F1 seed; Genetic effect of days to flowering in sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) under short day regimes; Epistatic gene action in sunflower - a caution to sunflower geneticists and breeders; Use of multivariate techniques in a breeding programme to assit selection of sunflower inbreds and hybrids; Stratified masal selection on sunflower as breeding method for synthetic varieties for forage or grain; Selection of sunflower plants containing high linoleic acid and its agronomic significance; Selection in sunflowers for resistance to Rutherglen bug (Nysius vinitor); Chemically induced mutations in sunflower; Genetic advances by mass selection in the oil percentage of sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.); Performance of early maturing hybrids in Manitoba, Canada; Sunflower variety evaluation, Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia; Evaluation of sunflower hybrids in international trial plantings; Plant breeder's rights and varieties registration in France; An objective description of sunflower for varietal registration, plant variety protection and other purposes; Oil quality analyser; TBHQ in sunflower oil; Utilization of sunflower oil in making plastic fat products for edible uses by miscella interesterification process; Plant oils as a fuel for diesel engines: experiences with sunflower oil; Energy farming update: the bio-oil option?; Lysine availabity in sunflower meals for pigs and chiks; What will the market place expect from sunflower?.

Book Stability Analysis of Experimental Hybrids for Seed Yield and Its Component Characters in Sunflower  Helianthus Annuus L

Download or read book Stability Analysis of Experimental Hybrids for Seed Yield and Its Component Characters in Sunflower Helianthus Annuus L written by KALLENAVAR LAXMAN S and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Heterosis

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  • Author : R. Frankel
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2013-06-29
  • ISBN : 364281977X
  • Pages : 301 pages

Download or read book Heterosis written by R. Frankel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When trying to solicit authors for this book it became apparent that the causal factors for heterosis at the physiological and biochemical level are today almost as obscure as they were 30 years ago. Though biometrical-genetical analyses point to dispersion of complementary genes - not overdominance - as the major cause of the phenomenon, plant breeders' experience still suggests a cautious, pragmatic approach to the dominance-overdominance controversy in breeding hybrid cultivars. Thus we are faced with a striking discordance between our limited comprehension of the causal factors and mechanism of heter osis on the one hand, and the extensive agricultural practice of utiliza tion of hybrid vigor on the other. Such utilization is the result of the economic value of hybrid combinations displaying superior yields and qualities as well as stability of performance, of benefits derived in breeding programs, and of the enhanced varietal protection of proprietary rights. No comprehensive and critical analysis of the phenomenon of heterosis in economic plants has been published for the last three decades since the now classical book Heterosis, edited by J . W. Gowen (Iowa State College Press, Ames, Iowa, 1952). The present book attempts to fill the gap and to assess the status of our present knowl edge of the concept, the basis, the extent, and the application of heterosis in economic plants.

Book Selection Methods in Plant Breeding

Download or read book Selection Methods in Plant Breeding written by Izak Bos and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 multidisciplin ary 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 develop ing, 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, reproductive biology, trial design, se lection and computing.