Principles of Plant Genetics and Breeding

Chapter 1
http://www.foodfirst.org/media/opeds/2000/
4-greenrev.html Lessons from the Green Revolution.
http://www.arches.uga.edu/~wparks/ppt/green/
Biotechnology and the Green Revolution. Interview with
Norman Borlaug.
http://cuke.hort.ncsu.edu/cucurbit/wehner/741/
hs741hist.html History of plant breeding.
Chapter 2
http://agronomy.ucdavis.edu/gepts/pb143/pb143.thm
Gepts, P. 2002. The evolution of crop plants.
http://cucurbitsvr.hort.ncsu.edu/breeding/
usplantbreeding/uspbmain.html Plant breeding in the USA.
List of land grant institutions and seed companies.
http://pas.byu.edu/AgHrt100/evolutio.htm Synopsis on
plant breeding and evolution.
Chapter 3
http://molvis.sdsc.edu/atlas/atlas.htm#dnarna Colorful
animated figures of DNA and other macromolecules.
http://www-scf.usc.edu/~chem203/resources/DNA/
doublehelix.html DNA structure.
http://biog-101-104.bio.cornell.edu/BioG101_104/
tutorials/cell_division.html Well illustrated tutorial site on
cell division.
Chapter 4
http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/
A/AsexualReproduction.html Asexual reproduction in
plants.
http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/BIOBK/
BioBookflowers.html Excellent illustrations and discussion of
aspects of reproduction in flowering plants.
http://www.ukans.edu/~bio152/17/sld001.htm Excellent
slides on plant reproduction.
Appendix 1
Internet resources
http://billie.btny.purdue.edu/apomixis/apomixis.html
Excellent overview of apomixis.
Chapter 6
http://www.barc.usda.gov/psi/ngrl/ngrl.html Website of
National Germplasm Resources Lab.
http://www.plantstress.com/admin/WRFiles/
germplasmwr.htm List of websites for plant germplasm
resource centers worldwide.
http://www.ciesin.org/docs/002-256a/002–256a.html
Paper on current status of biological diversity by E. O. Wilson
of Harvard University.
Chapter 7
http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/
H/Hardy_Weinberg.html Excellent discussion of population
genetics.
Chapter 10
http://csf.colorado.edu/perma/stse/isolate.htm Basic
isolation practices for reducing or eliminating natural
cross-pollination in field crossing.
http://www.actahort.org/books/200/200_3.htm
Application of wide crosses in tomato improvement.
Chapter 11
http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/tisscult/microprop/
microprop.html Links to numerous aspects of plant
micropropagation.
http://billie.btny.purdue.edu/apomixis/apomixis.html
Excellent overview of apomixis.
http://www.sprrs.usda.gov/apomixis.htm Comments from
foremost scientists in field of apomixis.
http://www.blogontheweb.com/tissue_culture Excellent
discussion on tissue culture.