Polyploidy and Hybridization for Crop Improvement
Many of our current agricultural crops are natural or agricultural hybrids (between two or more species), or polyploids (containing more than one genome or set of chromosomes). These include potato, oats, cotton, oilseed rape, wheat, strawberries, kiwifruit, banana, seedless watermelon, triticale and many others. Polyploidy and hybridization can also be used for crop improvement: for example, to introgress disease resistance from wild species into crops, to produce seedless fruits for human consumption, or even to create entirely new crop types. Some crop genera have hundreds of years of interspecific hybridization and ploidy manipulation beh…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4987-4068-5
- EAN: 9781498740685
- Produktnummer: 21414833
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 490 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 20'644 KB
- Abbildungen: 24 schwarz-weiße und 25 farbige Abbildungen
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Annaliese S. Mason
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