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In Vitro Haploid Production in Higher Plants: Volume 4: Cereals
Since the beginning of agricultural production, there has been a continuous effort to grow more and better quality food to feed ever increasing populations. Both improved cultural practices and improved crop plants have allowed us to divert more human resources to non-agricultural activities while still increasing agricultural production. Malthusian population predictions continue to alarm agricultural researchers, especially plant breeders, to seek new technologies that will continue to allow us to produce more and better food by fewer people on less land. Both improvement of existing cultivars and development of new high-yielding cultivars are common goals for breeders of all crops. In vitro haploid production is among the new technologies that show great promise toward the goal of increasing crop yields by making similar germplasm available for many crops that was used to implement one of the greatest plant breeding success stories of this century, i. e. , the development of hybrid maize by crosses of inbred lines. One of the main applications of anther culture has been to produce diploid homozygous pure lines in a single generation, thus saving many generations of backcrossing to reach homozygosity by traditional means or in crops where self-pollination is not possible. Because doubled haploids are equivalent to inbred lines, their value has been appreciated by plant breeders for decades. The search for natural haploids and methods to induce them has been ongoing since the beginning of the 20th century.
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In Vitro Haploid Production in Higher Plants: Volume 4: Cereals
Since the beginning of agricultural production, there has been a continuous effort to grow more and better quality food to feed ever increasing populations. Both improved cultural practices and improved crop plants have allowed us to divert more human resources to non-agricultural activities while still increasing agricultural production. Malthusian population predictions continue to alarm agricultural researchers, especially plant breeders, to seek new technologies that will continue to allow us to produce more and better food by fewer people on less land. Both improvement of existing cultivars and development of new high-yielding cultivars are common goals for breeders of all crops. In vitro haploid production is among the new technologies that show great promise toward the goal of increasing crop yields by making similar germplasm available for many crops that was used to implement one of the greatest plant breeding success stories of this century, i. e. , the development of hybrid maize by crosses of inbred lines. One of the main applications of anther culture has been to produce diploid homozygous pure lines in a single generation, thus saving many generations of backcrossing to reach homozygosity by traditional means or in crops where self-pollination is not possible. Because doubled haploids are equivalent to inbred lines, their value has been appreciated by plant breeders for decades. The search for natural haploids and methods to induce them has been ongoing since the beginning of the 20th century.
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In Vitro Haploid Production in Higher Plants: Volume 4: Cereals

In Vitro Haploid Production in Higher Plants: Volume 4: Cereals

In Vitro Haploid Production in Higher Plants: Volume 4: Cereals

In Vitro Haploid Production in Higher Plants: Volume 4: Cereals

Overview

Since the beginning of agricultural production, there has been a continuous effort to grow more and better quality food to feed ever increasing populations. Both improved cultural practices and improved crop plants have allowed us to divert more human resources to non-agricultural activities while still increasing agricultural production. Malthusian population predictions continue to alarm agricultural researchers, especially plant breeders, to seek new technologies that will continue to allow us to produce more and better food by fewer people on less land. Both improvement of existing cultivars and development of new high-yielding cultivars are common goals for breeders of all crops. In vitro haploid production is among the new technologies that show great promise toward the goal of increasing crop yields by making similar germplasm available for many crops that was used to implement one of the greatest plant breeding success stories of this century, i. e. , the development of hybrid maize by crosses of inbred lines. One of the main applications of anther culture has been to produce diploid homozygous pure lines in a single generation, thus saving many generations of backcrossing to reach homozygosity by traditional means or in crops where self-pollination is not possible. Because doubled haploids are equivalent to inbred lines, their value has been appreciated by plant breeders for decades. The search for natural haploids and methods to induce them has been ongoing since the beginning of the 20th century.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9789048146826
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Publication date: 12/16/2010
Series: Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture , #26
Edition description: 1997
Pages: 236
Product dimensions: 8.27(w) x 10.98(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

IV.1. Haploidy in rice.- IV.2. In vitro haploid production of higher plants in maize.- IV.3. In vitro induced haploids in wheat.- IV.4. Haploidy in barley.- IV.5. Haploidy in triticale.- IV.6. Haploidy in ryegrass.- IV.7. Haploidy in sorghum.- IV.8. Haploid induction in buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum Moench).- IV.9. Haploidy in pearl millet [Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.].- IV.10. Haploidy in rye.- IV.11. Oat haploids from anther culture and from wide hybridizations.- List of Contributors.- Species and Subject index.
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