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Application of Mutation Breeding Methods in the Improvement of vegetatively propagated crops V2
1st Edition - January 1, 1978
Editor: C. Broertjes
eBook ISBN:9780444601636
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Application of Mutation Breeding Methods in the Improvement of Vegetatively Propagated Crops: An Interpretive Literature Review summarizes advances in the use of artificially… Read more
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Application of Mutation Breeding Methods in the Improvement of Vegetatively Propagated Crops: An Interpretive Literature Review summarizes advances in the use of artificially induced mutations to improve cultivated plants, particularly those that are vegetatively propagated. It brings together all available and accessible references that examine the advantages, drawbacks, and possibilities of the mutation breeding method, as well as the challenges that prevent it from being applied to various crops. Comprised of eight chapters, this volume begins with an overview of various aspects of mutagenic treatment using chemical and physical mutagens. It then discusses the structure and functioning of shoot apices and their behavior after irradiation; adventitious bud techniques and other in vivo or in vitro methods of asexual propagation; and breeding of root and tuber crops, such as cassava and potato, ornamental crops such as foliage plants and cut flowers, fruit crops, and other crops. Plant breeders who want to better understand how to apply mutation breeding to their crops will find this book extremely helpful.
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. Various aspects of mutagenic treatment
Chemical mutagens
Physical mutagens
Literature
Chapter 2. Shoot apices: organization and post-irradiation behaviour
Structure and functioning of shoot apices
Behaviour of axillary and adventitious buds
The position of a mutated cell within a plant; chimerism
Rearrangements of cell layers
Shoot apices after irradiation
Patterns of radiation-induced morphological/histological damage and recovery
The fate of a mutated apical cell
Diplontic selection
Literature
Chapter 3. Adventitious bud techniques and other in vivo or in vitro methods of asexual propagation
In vivo techniques
Adventitious buds originating from one cell
Adventitious buds originating from more than one cell
Buds in ontogenetically young stages of development
Various other methods
The production of solid polyploids
Literature
In vitro techniques
Mono-cell cultures
Callus cultures
Explant cultures
Literature
Chapter 4. Root and tuber crops
Cassava
Garlic
Potato
Spontaneous mutations
Induced mutations
Sweet potato
Yam and various other (tropical) root and tuber crops