An Introduction to Plant Breeding

Plants have been successfully selectively bred for thousands of years, culminating in incredible yields, quality, and pest resistance and so on that we see in our modern day crops and ornamental plants. In recent years the techniques used have been rapidly advanced and refined to include molecular, cell and genetic techniques.

An Introduction to Plant Breeding has been carefully compiled by the authors, who have between them many years’ experience as plant breeders, and as teachers on underg...