Plant Breeding Methods
Walter R. Fehr and Walter P. Suza
Covers the main methods for developing new crop varieties, from hybridization and backcrossing to mutation breeding. A full chapter explains the novel traits that molecular genetics and biotechnology bring to breeding programs.
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