Flower Breeding and Genetics: Issues, Challenges and Opportunities for the 21st Century - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1402065698 ISBN 13: 9781402065699

Publisher: Springer, 2007

Synopsis

Floriculture is one of the fastest-growing sectors of commercial agriculture. This book provides a unique and valuable resource on the many issues and challenges facing flower breeders, as well as the industry at-large. Featuring contributions from 32 international authorities, it offers tools and directions for future crop domestication and enhancement as well as offers essential information for breeding a wide range of floriculture crops.

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From the Back Cover:

Flowers are essential crops which beautify interiorscapes, outdoor landscapes and enhance human health. Floriculture is one of the fastest-growing sectors of commercial agriculture world-wide with many highly profitable crops. Such a diversity of new and domesticated flower crops is created by public and private sector flower breeders. This book provides a unique and valuable resource on the many issues and challenges facing flower breeders, as well as the industry at-large. In this volume, the first comprehensive assemblage of its kind, a team of 32 international authorities has contributed to make this book a ‘must-have’ reference to research and develop flower crops for the 21st century consumers. Part 1 of this book (flower breeding program issues) contains unique features of interest to horticultural professionals and students, include coverage of plant protection strategies, cultivar trialing methodology, germplasm collection/preservation, preventing invasiveness, and other timely topics. The collective body of knowledge for 24 flower crops (Part 2: Crop-specific Breeding and Genetics) represents the in-depth science and art of breeding technology available for bedding plants, flowering potted plants, cut flowers, and herbaceous perennials. Each author provides crop-specific history, evolution, biology, taxonomy, state-of-the-art breeding/genetics, classical/molecular technologies, species traits, interspecific hybridization, and directions for future development/enhancement.

Review:

From the reviews:

"This book will come as a very welcome addition to the a ] library covering the genetics and breeding of ornamentals, and usefully brings the topic into the 21st century with its scientific and technical content. a ] There is some very useful scientific content here, well supported with reference lists for further reading and investigation, and the topics are covered comprehensively. a ] The tables and diagrams a ] are excellent, clearly laid out, relevant and helpful." (A. E. Arthur, Experimental Agriculture, Vol. 43, 2007)

About this edition

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1402065698
• ISBN 13: 9781402065699
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 848
• Editor: Anderson Neil O.