Principles of Plant Genetics and Breeding

complex inheritance, 42
composite cultivar, 310
composites, 310
compositional traits, 9, 404
congruency backcross, 308
constitutive expression, 52
constitutive promoters, 235
Consultative Group of International
Agricultural Research (CGIAR),
452–455
conventional breeding, 29
convergent crosses, 170
cool season plants, 78
copyrights, 257
corn breeding, 485–497
corolla, 58
correlated response, 133
correlation coefficient, 151
cotton breeding, 546–554
coupling phase, 45
crop introduction, 20–22
crop registration, 432
cross-pollinated, 60
crossing, 165
crossing over, 38
cryopreservation, 100
cultivar, 4
cultivar release process, 438
cuttings, 62
cybrids, 186
cytoplasmic inheritance, 37
cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS), 335,
345, 488
Darwin, C., 17
decentralized participatory plant
breeding, 463
delayed ripening, 412
determinacy, 364
developing countries (breeding), 451
diallel cross, 143, 170
diallel cross test, 328
dichogamy, 61
dicots, 76
differential cultivars, 374
differential expression, 52
dihaploid, 214
dioecious plants, 59
dioecy, 61, 68, 349
diploidization, 219
direct organogenesis, 184
directed selection, 193
directional selection, 115
disease, 368
disease resistance, 367
disease triangle, 369
disruptive selection, 115
divergent crossing, 170
DNA, 8
DNA amplification fingerprinting
(DAF), 249
DNA markers, 247
DNA microarrays, 239, 243
DNA sequencing, 232, 237
domestication, 18–24
centers of diversity, 19
law of homologous series, 20
patterns, 19
syndrome, 23
dominance, 39
dominance effect, 12
dominance gene action, 126
dominance theory (of heterosis), 339
dominant mutation, 201
double cross, 170
double dwarfs, 363
double fertilization, 60
double helix, 48
doubled haploids, 187, 190
drought stress, 387
drought stress breeding, 387–392,
393–396
ear-to-row selection, 317
early generation testing, 139
economic yield, 353
ecosystem, 5
emasculation, 26, 166, 481
embryo rescue, 185
end-use quality breeding, 412
environmental index, 424
environmental variation, 79
epidemics, 383
epistasis, 43
ethics, 263
evolution, 17
ex situ conservation, 91, 98
exons, 51
experimental design, 427
experimental unit, 148, 427
explant, 183
expressivity, 46
factor analysis, 155
Fairchild, T., 7
female gametophyte, 59
fertilization, 59
field plot designs, 429
field plot technique, 427
filament, 58
INDEX 565
first division restitution (FDR), 216
“FlavrSavr” tomato, 413
flood stress, 402
flowers, 58
food allergy, 271
forward mutation, 200
foundation seed, 436, 440
frame shift mutation, 202
full-sib family selection, 318
functional genomics, 238
G × E interaction, 386, 420–423
gametic incompatibility, 172
gametogenesis, 59
gene action, 125
gene banks, 91
gene-for-gene hypothesis, 372
gene frequency, 110, 113
gene mutation, 200
gene pool, 109
gene pyramiding, 247, 374
general worth, 139
genes, 4
genetic advance, 130
genetic code, 50
genetic determination, 128
genetic engineering, 9
genetic erosion, 96
genetic gain, 130
genetic linkage, 43–46
genetic markers, 25
genetic transformation, 80, 234
genetic use restriction systems (GURT),
244–246
genetic variation, 79
genetic vulnerability, 90
genetically modified (GM), 6
genome, 36, 237
genomic DNA library, 233
genomic formula, 214
genomic mutation, 200
genomics, 477
genotype, 40
genotype × environment (G × E)
interaction, 386, 420–423
germplasm, 29, 87–107
collection, 98
conservation, 91, 98, 103
enhancement, 93
gene pools, 89
genetic vulnerability, 89, 95
importance, 87
sources, 88
storage technologies, 100
germplasm collection, 98