Chromosomes and nuclear division
S1.6 Genetic linkage and its implications
S1.7 Chromosome mapping
S1.8 Penetrance and expressivity
S1.9 Nucleic acids: structure and function
S1.10 Central dogma of molecular biology
S1.11 Expression of genetic information
S1.12 Protein structure
S1.13 Regulation of gene expression
S1.14 Synteny and plant breeding
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List of Tables
1 Chapter 1Table 1.1 Twenty‐five major food crops of the world.Table 1.2 An operational classification of technologies of plant breeding.Table 1.3 Selected seed companies in various parts of the world.Table 1.4 Selected milestones in plant breeding.
2 Chapter 4Table 4.1 Transgressive segregation.Table 4.2 Heritability (broad sense) estimates of some plant architectural tr...Table 4.3 Calculating general and specific combining abilities.
3 Chapter 5Table 5.1 Pollination mechanisms in plants.Table 5.2 Examples of predominantly self‐pollinated species.Table B5.1 Old and new names of tomato and its wild relatives.Table 5.3 Examples of predominantly cross‐pollinated species.
4 Chapter 6Table 6.1 The variability in an F2 population as affected by the number of ge...Table 6.2 A summary of the reproductive isolation barriers in plants as first...
5 Chapter 7Table 7.1 List of crops where desirable and heritable somaclonal variations h...
6 Chapter 8Table 8.1 The five kingdoms of organisms as described by Whitaker.Table 8.2 Divisions in the Kingdom Plantae.Table 8.3 Important field crop families in the Division Magnoliophyta (Flower...
7 Chapter 9Table 9.1 Important centers of diversity.Table 9.2 Characteristics of domestication syndrome traits.
8 Chapter 10Table B10.1 Conservation methods for different categories of diversity rated ...Table B10.2 Varieties registered from 1973 to 1990 proved to have been develo...Table 10.1 Germplasm holdings in germplasm banks in the US.Table 10.2 Germplasm holdings at the International Agricultural Research Cent...
9 Chapter 11Table B11.1 Characters listed in the current UK recommended lists of barley.
10 Chapter 12Table 12.1 Essential amino acids that are low in selected major world food cr...Table B12.1 List of key traits of importance incorporated into biofortified m...Table B12.2 Description of sites used for the advanced yield and on‐farm tria...Table 12.2 Essential amino acids in animal/human nutrition.
11 Chapter 15Table 15.1 Relative salt tolerance in plants.Table 15.2 Examples of warm‐ and cool‐season crops.Table 15.3 Summary of selected plant essential mineral nutrients and their ro...Table 15.4 Common deficiency symptoms of selected plant essential nutrient el...
12 Chapter 16Table 16.1 The concept of congruency backcross.
13 Chapter 19Table B19.1 Yam selection traits and improvement goal.
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