Advances in breeding techniques for cereal crops (Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science Book 60)

This book provides a comprehensive review of advances in breeding techniques for cereals such as wheat, barley maize and rye.

Part 1 discusses ways of better exploiting genetic diversity through techniques such as trait introgression.

Parts 2-3 then summarise developments in the use of doubled haploids and hybrid breeding methods.

Parts 4-5 review advances in high throughput phenotyping and its use in identifying markers for breeding using techniques such as genome-wide association studies and nested association mapping.