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Biblioteca(s): | Embrapa Trigo.
Data corrente: | 07/05/1996
Data da última atualização: | 30/01/2019
Autoria: | MUHAMMED, A.; AKSEL, R.; BORSTEL, R. C. von. (ed.).
Título: | Genetic diversity in plants.
Ano de publicação: | 1977
Fonte/Imprenta: | New York: Plenum Press, 1977.
Páginas: | 506 p.
Série: | (Basic Life Sciences, 8).
ISBN: | 0-306-36508-1
Idioma: | Inglês
Notas: | Most of the chapters in this volume are based on papers that were read at the International Symposium on Genetic Control of Diversity in Plants held at Lahone, Pakistan, 1976.

Conteúdo:

I. Introduction. Perspective. Inaugural address. The world food crisis. 
II. Natural and induced genetic variability. Natural variation and its conservation. On germ plasm conservation with special reference to the genus Medicago. Distribution patterns of indigenous wheat varieties in Northern Pakistan. Useful genetics sources of economic importance and their utilization in wheat-breeding programs in Pakistan. Natural and induced genetic variability in wheat. The exploitation of natural genetic variability for the improvement of chickpea. Synthetic Amphiploids in breeding - genetic and evolutionary studies in wheat. KIMBER, G. The use of Aneuploids in studies of genetics, breeding, and evolution in wheat. p. 103-116. SP-10059. Prospects and perspectives in mutation breeding. Norin-10-based semidwarfism. Evaluation of branched ear derivatives of Triticum aestivum L. 
III. Genetic variability and resistance to disease. Artificial mutagenesis as an aid in overcoming genetic vulnerability of crop plants. AKHTAR, C. M. Principal diseases of major crops in Pakistan with reference to genetic resistance. p. 179-191. SP-04268. The measurement of disease severity in cereal smut. Stabilizing selection for pathogenicity in cereal rust fungi. Development of disease-resistant chickpea. 
IV. Genetics of quantitative characters. Coadaptation in plant populations. Estimation of genotypic and environmental variation in plants. SOOMRO, B. A. Heritability estimates from four generations of a diallel cross of common wheat. p. 241-248. SP-04210. Diallel analysis of four agronomic traits in common wheat. The use of selection indices in maize (Zea mays L.). Quantitative genetically nonequivalent reciprocal crosses in cultivated plants. 
V. Prospects of breeding for physiological characters. Physiological basis of salt tolerance in plants. Prospects of breeding for salt tolerance in rice. Plant responses to high temperatures. KHAN, R. A. Effect of high-temperature stress on the growth and seed characteristics of barley and cotton. p. 319-324. Plant genotype effects on nitrogen fixation in grasses.
VI. Seed storage proteins. storage proteins in cereals. Nutritional aspects of cereal proteins. Wheat protein. ....
VII. Genetic manipulation in cell cultures.

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