Soybean breeding. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Felipe Lopes da Silva, Aluízio Borém, Tuneo Sediyama, Willian Hytalo Ludke, editors.
• Editors: Silva, Felipe Lopes da; Borém, Aluízio; Syama, Tuneo; Ludke, Willian Hytalo
• Contents: 1. Economic importance and evolution of breeding in Brazil -- 2. FT seeds and the expansion of soybeans in Brazil -- 3. Diversity center and genetic resources -- 4. Vegetative and reproductive morphology -- 5. Qualitative characteristics in breeding -- 6. Quantitative characteristics in breeding -- 7. Quantitative genetics in breeding -- 8. Selection of parents -- 9. Methods of conduct segregating populations -- 10. Recurrent selection -- 11. Biometrics applied to the soybean genetic breeding -- 12. BLUP in the genetic evaluation of parents, generations, populations and progenies -- 13. Genetic mapping -- 14. Selection assisted by molecular markers and genomic selection -- 15. Breeding to transgenic cultivar -- 16. Transgenic cultivar -- 17. Resistance to diseases -- 18. Resistance to insects -- 19. Breeding for abiotic stresses -- 20. Breeding for nutritional quality -- 21. Agronomic traits in the development of cultivars -- 22. Multiplication and maintenance of seed -- 23. Registration and protection of soybean cultivars in Brazil.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvi, 440 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 633.3/4; Life sciences; Soybean -- Breeding; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Agronomy -- Crop Science; Soybean -- Breeding; Life Sciences; Plant Breeding/Biotechnology; Plant Genetics & Genomics; Agriculture; Plant Biochemistry; Science -- Life Sciences -- Botany; Technology & Engineering -- Agriculture -- General; Science -- Life Sciences -- Biochemistry; Botany & plant sciences; Agricultural science; Plant breeding; Plant genetics; Agriculture; Biochemistry; Plant reproduction & propagation; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319574332; 3319574337
• Related ISBNs: 9783319574325; 3319574329
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 23, 2017).
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