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Adaptation in Plant Breeding: Selected Papers from the XIV Eucarpia Congress on Adaptation in Plant Breeding Held at Jyväskylä, Sweden from July 31 to

Adaptation in Plant Breeding: Selected Papers from the XIV Eucarpia Congress on Adaptation in Plant Breeding Held at Jyväskylä, Sweden from July 31 to

Tigerstedt, P. M. a.

Hardcover

Series: Developments in Plant Breeding, Book 4

AgricultureBotany & HorticultureGenetics

ISBN10: 0792340620
ISBN13: 9780792340621
Publisher: Springer
Published: Feb 28 1997
Pages: 308
Weight: 1.70
Height: 0.75 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Plant adaptation is a fundamental process in plant breeding. It was the first criterion in the initial domestication of plants thousands of years ago. Adaptedness is generally a quantitative complex feature of the plant, involving many traits, many of which are quantitative. Adaptation to stresses like cold, drought or diseases are among the most central problems in a world grappling with global food security. Modern plant breeding, based on mendelian genetics, has made plant improvement more effective and more precise and selective. Molecular genetics and genetic engineering has considerably increased this selectivity down to single genes affecting single traits. The time has come when plant breeding efficiency may cause loss of genetic resources and adaptation. In these proceedings an effort is made to merge modern plant breeding efficiency with ecological aspects of plant breeding, reflected in adaptation. It is hoped that this merger results in more sustainable use ofgenetic resources and physical environments.

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