 | Advances in breeding techniques for cereal crops This book provides a comprehensive review of advances in breeding techniques for cereals such as wheat, barley maize and rye. Part 1 discusses ways of better exploiting genetic diversity through techniques such as trait introgression. Parts 2-3 then summarise developments in the use of doubled haploids and hybrid breeding methods. Parts 4-5 review advances in high throughput phenotyping and its use in identifying markers for breeding using techniques such as genome-wide association studies and nested association mapping. Professor Frank Ordon is Vice-President of the Julius Kühn Institute (JKI) (Germany's Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants) and Head of the Institute for Resistance Research and Stress Tolerance at the JKI. Professor Wolfgang Friedt is Emeritus Professor of Plant Breeding at the Justus-Liebig University of Giessen, Germany. |
