Genetic and Production Innovations in Field Crop Technology : New Developments in Theory and

Contents Preface. 1. Is crop improvement still needed/L.T. Evans. 2. Crop breeding in the twenty first century/Donald N. Duvick. 3. Scientific breakthroughs and plant breeding/Gurdev S. Khush. 4. Designing for and analyzing results from field experiments/Walter T. Federer and Jose Crossa. 5. Physiological determinants of crop growth and yield in Maize sunflower and soybean their application to crop management modeling and breeding/F.H. Andrade V.O. Sadras C.R.C. Vega and L. Echarte. 6. Genetic diversity in crop improvement the soybean experience/Clay H. Sneller Randall L. Nelson T.E. Carter and Zhanglin Cui. 7. Advances in breeding of seed quality traits in soybean/Istvan Rajcan Guangyun Hou and Aron D. Weir. 8. At last another record corn crop/A. Forrest Troyer and Darrel Good. 9. Breeding Cassava for underprivileged institutional socio economic and biological factors for success/Kazuo Kawano and James H. Cock. 10. Yielding potential of rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) in sub optimal environments/P.M. Priyadarshan T.T.T. Hoa H. Huasun and P. De S. Goncalves. 11. Characterization of environments and genotypes for analyzing genotype X environment interaction some recent advances in winter wheat and prospects for QTL detection/M. Leflon C. Lecomte A. Barbottin M.H. Jeuffroy N. Robert and M. Brancourt Hulmel. 12. QTL identification mega environment classification and strategy development for marker based selection using biplots/Weikai Yan Nicholas A. Tinker and Duane E. Falk. 13. Scheffe Calinski and Shukla models their interpretation and usefulness in stability and adaptation analyses/Wieslaw Madry and Manjit S. Kang. Index. 384 pp.…