Plant Breeding Reviews, Volume 24, Part 2

Plant Breeding Reviews, Volume 24, Part 2 presents state-of-the-art reviews on plant genetics and the breeding of all types of crops by both traditional means and molecular methods. The emphasis of the series is on methodology, a practical understanding of crop genetics, and applications to major crops.

Contributors. Preface. CROPS. 1. Crop Domestication as a Long-term Selection Experiment (Paul Gepts). 2. Long-term Selection in Plants in the Developing World (J.W. Miles and S. Pandey). 3. Trends in Productivity of U.S. Crops and Long-term Selection (William F. Tracy, et al.). 4. Long-term Selection in a Commercial Hybrid Maize Breeding Program (D.N. Duvick, et al.). 5. Long-term Divergent Selection for Ear Length in Maize (Arnel R. Hallauer, et al.). ANIMALS. 6. Inferences on the Genetic of Quantitative Traits from Long-term Selection in Laboratory and Domestic Animals (William G. Hill and Lutz Bünger). 7. Long-term Selection for Pupal Weight in Tribolium castaneum (W.M. Muir, et al.). BACTERIA. 8. Phenotypic and Genomic Evolution during a 20,000-Generation Experiment with the Bacterium Escherichia coli (Richard E. Lenski). Subject Index. Cumulative Subject Index. Cumulative Contributor Index.