Wheat Breeding: Its scientific basis

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Systematics and evolution....Pages 1-30
The history of wheat cultivation....Pages 31-49
History of wheat breeding....Pages 51-70
Aneuploidy in wheat and its uses in genetic analysis....Pages 71-108
Conventional methods of genetic analysis in wheat....Pages 109-128
Wheat genetics....Pages 129-171
The introduction of alien genetic variation in wheat....Pages 173-210
Chromosome structure and organization....Pages 211-268
Triticale breeding....Pages 269-286
Development and structure of the wheat plant....Pages 287-311
Water relations....Pages 313-337
Yield assessment....Pages 339-368
Breeding for disease resistance....Pages 369-424
Breeding for resistance to insects....Pages 425-454
Grain quality....Pages 455-485
Production of new varieties: an integrated research approach to plant breeding....Pages 487-538
Future prospects....Pages 539-552
Back Matter....Pages 553-566