Research Catalog

Title

Genetic improvement of crops : emergent techniques / Irwin Rubenstein ... [et al.], editors.

Publication

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1980.

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Additional Authors

• Rubenstein, Irwin, 1931-
• Rubenstein, Irwin.
• University of Minnesota

Description

xii, 242 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Crops > Genetics > Congresses
• Plant breeding > Congresses
• Plant genetics > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• "Papers from a symposium held in 1979 at the University of Minnesota."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part I. Potentials and needs -- Potentials for improving crop production / G.A. Strobel -- Genetic needs of plant breeders / R.A. Kleese and D.N. Duvick -- Part II. Genome organization and function -- Patterns of DNA sequence repetition and interspersion in higher plants / W.F. Thompson [et al.] -- Cereal genome studies and plant breeding / R.B. Flavell, M. O'Dell, J. Jones -- Part III. Gene isolation and transfer -- Molecular cloning of higher plant DNA / J. Bedbrook [and others] -- Characteristics of T-DNA in Crown Gall tumors / M.D. Chilton [and others] -- Part IV. Organelle transfer -- The analysis of organelle behavior and genetics following protoplast fusion or organelle incorporation / H. Bonnett, A. Wallin, K. Glimelius -- Chromosome-mediated gene transfer and microcell hybridization / R.S. Athwal and O.W. McBride -- Part V. Plant tissue culture -- Mutant selection and plant regeneration from potato mesophyll protoplasts / J.F. Shepard -- Epigenetic changes in tobacco cell culture : studies of cytokinin habituation / F. Meins, Jr. and J. Lutz.

ISBN

0816609667 :

LCCN

^^^80023560^

OCLC

6709035

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