Hybrid Rice Breeding Manual
Hybrid Rice Breeding Manual

Author: S. S. Virmani

Publisher: Int. Rice Res. Inst.

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 9712201031

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Heterosis breeding and hybrid rice; Male sterility systems in rice; Organization of hybrid rice breeding program using CMS system; Source nursery; CMS maintenance and evaluation nursery; Testcross nursery; Restorer purification nursery; Backcross nursery; Combining ability nursery; Breeding rice hybrids with TGMS system; Nucleus and breeder seed production of A, B, R, and TGMS lines; Seed production of experimental rice hybrids; Evaluation of experimental rice hybrids; Improvement of parental lines; Methods of enhancing the levels of heterosis; Quality assurance procedures in hybrid rice breeding.

Heterosis and Hybrid Rice Breeding
Heterosis and Hybrid Rice Breeding

Author: Sant Singh Virmani

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 3642851150

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Rice is the most important food crop of the developing world and the demand for it is growing. Provided here is a concise account of hybrid breeding in rice, a newly deployed breeding approach to increase the yield. Research on heterosis, male sterility systems, outcrossing mechanisms, disease/insect management, and grain quality considerations in hybrid rice are reviewed. The book contains a wealth of useful information for practicing hybrid rice breeders, seed producers, researchers, and students of plant breeding.

Hybrid Rice Technology
Hybrid Rice Technology

Author: S. S. Virmani

Publisher: Int. Rice Res. Inst.

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9712200531

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This symposium is a follow-up to one held in China in 1986. Since then considerable progress has been made in research and development of hybrid rice. This second international symposium was held under the umbrella of the International Rice Research Conference. Eighty scientists and seed production experts from 18 countries, IRRI and FAO attended. Contributions covered breeding, biotechnology, seed production, agronomy, plant physiology, plant pathology, entomology and economics.

Hybrid
Hybrid

Author: Noel Kingsbury

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2011-11-15

Total Pages: 510

ISBN-13: 0226437132

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"Noel Kingsbury reveals that even those imaginary perfect foods are themselves far from anything that could properly be called natural, rather, they represent the end of a millennia-long history of selective breeding and hybridization. Starting his story at the birth of agriculture, Kingsbury traces the history of human attempts to make plants more reliable, productive, and nutritiousa story that owes as much to accident and error as to innovation and experiment. Drawing on historical and scientific accounts, as well as a rich trove of anecdotes, Kingsbury shows how scientists, amateur breeders, and countless anonymous farmers and gardeners slowly caused the evolutionary pressures of nature to be supplanted by those of human needs and thus led us from sparse wild grasses to succulent corn cobs, and from mealy, white wild carrots to the juicy vegetables we enjoy today. At the same time, Kingsbury reminds us that contemporary controversies over the Green Revolution and genetically modified crops are not new, plant breeding has always had a political dimension."--Publisher's description.

Manual on MUTATION BREEDING THIRD EDITION
Manual on MUTATION BREEDING THIRD EDITION

Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.

Published: 2018-10-09

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 9251305269

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This paper provides guidelines for new high-throughput screening methods – both phenotypic and genotypic – to enable the detection of rare mutant traits, and reviews techniques for increasing the efficiency of crop mutation breeding.

A Manual of Rice Seed Health Testing
A Manual of Rice Seed Health Testing

Author: T. W. Mew

Publisher: Int. Rice Res. Inst.

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 121

ISBN-13: 9712200493

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Rice seed health and quarantine; The rice plant and its environment; Equipment; Samples and sampling; dry seed inspection; Fungi; Bacteria; Nematodes; Viruses and mycoplasmalike organisms; Field inspection; Seed treatment; Weed seed; Insect pests; Fungal pathogens; Bacterial pathogens; Nematode pest; Organisms causing grain discoloration and damage.