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Plant Breeding Reviews, Part 1: Long-term Selection: Maize, Volume 24

Jules Janick (Editor)
ISBN: 978-0-471-35316-4
Hardcover
384 pages
December 2003
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Contributors.

Preface (Kendall R. Lamkey).

1. Dedication John W. Dudley: The Man and His Work (Rita Hogan Mumm).

PERSPECTIVE AND BACKGROUND.

2. Genes and Selection: Retrospect and Prospect (George P. Rédei).

3. Champaign Country, Illinois, and the Origin of Hybrid Corn (A Forrest Troyer).

THE ILLINOIS LONG-TERM SELECTION EXPERIMENT.

4. The Intellectual Legacy of the Illinois Long-term Selection Experiment (Irwin L. Goldman).

5. 100 Generations of Selection for Oil and Protein in Corn (J.W. Dudley and R.J. Lambert).

6. RELP Variant Frequency Differences among Illinois Long-term Selection Protein Stains (V. Mikkilineni and T.R. Rocheford).

7. Physiological Changes Accompanying Long-term Selection for Grain Protein in Maize (F.E. Below, et al.).

8. Single Kernel Selection for Increased Grain Oils in Maize Synthetics and High-oil Hybrid Development (R.J. Lambert, et al.).

BIOLOGICAL AND THEORETICAL MODELS.

9. Population- and Quantitative-Genetic Models of Selection Limits (Bruce Walsh).

10. Mutational Variation and Long-term Selection Response (Peter D. Keightley).

11. Population Size and Long-term Selection (Kenneth Weber).

12. Gene Interaction and Selection (Charles J. Goodnight).

13. Marker-assisted Selection (Richard Johnson).

14. Long-term Selection with Known Quantitative Trait Loci (Jack C.M. Dekkers and Petek Settar).

Subject Index.

Cumulative Subject Index.

Cumulative Contributor Index.

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