Principles of Plant Genetics and Breeding

566 INDEX
germplasm composites, 327
germplasm enhancement, 91, 102
gigas, 216
“Golden Rice”, 5, 410
green revolution, 10
growing degree days, 347
gymnosperms, 76
gynoecium, 58
half-sib family selection, 315
haploid number, 214
haploids, 186–188
anther culture, 186
definition, 189
doubled haploids, 187, 191
ovary culture, 187
Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium, 110, 112
Harlan, J.R., 23, 89
harvest index, 355
harvest maturity, 365
heat stress breeding, 399
heat units, 347
herbicide resistance engineering, 382
heredity, 18
heritability, 127–130
applications, 130
computation, 129
definition, 128
types, 128
hermaphrodity, 55
heterosis, 339
biometrics of heterosis, 340
dominance theory, 340
genetic basis, 339
overdominance theory, 340
heterostyly, 61
heterotic relationship (groups), 341
definition, 342
heterotic groups and patterns, 342
methods for developing groups, 342
heterozygote, 40
high lysine, 405
homeologous chromosome, 222
homologous chromosomes, 37
homozygote, 40
horizontal resistance, 371
host, 369
hybrid, 7
hybrid breeding, 491–494
hybrid cultivar, 283, 334
definition, 335
genetic basis of heterosis, 339
hybrid vigor, 335
inbreeding depression, 336
types of hybrids, 343
hybrid cultivation, 336
hybrid seed production, 448
hybrid vigor, 335
hybrid weakness, 172
hybridization, 164–172
artificial hybridization, 165
genetic issues, 168
linkage drag, 169
types of population generated, 170
identity preservation, 275
ideotype concept, 354
in situ conservation, 91, 98
in vitro culture, 182
in vitro selection, 188
inbred line, 285, 344, 346
inbreeding, 116–119
inbreeding depression, 61, 335
incomplete block designs, 431
incomplete dominance, 42
incomplete flower, 59
incomplete linkage, 45
independent curling, 133
indexing, 195
indirect organogenesis, 184
inflorescence, 59
insect resistance engineering, 377
intellectual property, 257–262
concept, 257
patents, 258–263
international agricultural research
centers, 106, 452–455
International Board of Plant
Nomenclature, 76
international centers, 452
International Crop Improvement
Association, 447
international crop research centers,
453
International Seed Testing Association,
445
interspecific cross, 7
intrapopulation improvement, 315
ear-to-row selection, 317
full-sib family selection, 318
half-sib family selection, 316
half-sib reciprocal recurrent selection,
326
modified half-sib selection, 318
introns, 50
intuitive index, 135
ionizing radiations, 203
isolines (near isogenic lines, NIL), 283,
308
isozymes, 248
Jones, D.F., 7
Koelreuter, J., 7
law of independent assortment, 39
law of segregation, 39
legal risk, 278
line cultivar, 288
linkage, genetic, 43
linkage block, 123
linkage drag, 169, 307
linkage group, 43
Linneaus, C., 8
living modified organisms (LMO), 274
local control, 148, 429
locus, 39
lodging resistance, 362
long-day plants, 364
low phytate breeding, 412
male gametophyte, 59
male sterility, 70–72
marker-assisted selection (MAS),
251–254, 478
mass selection, 286–288
maternal effect, 37
maternal inheritance, 37
Mather, C., 7
mating design
diallel cross, 143
North Carolina design I, 142
North Carolina design II, 142
polycross, 142
mating system, 60, 115, 119
maturity (early), 365
McClintock, B., 8
measures of central tendency, 149
measures of dispersion, 150
meiosis, 38
Mendel, G., 42
Mendelian concepts, 39, 42
Mendelian ratios, 43
Mendel’s laws, 7
messenger RNA, 48
metric traits, 84
microarrays (DNA), 239
microprojectile bombardment
(biolistics), 234
micropropagation, 62, 183
see also tissue, culture
middling resistance, 374
midparent heterosis, 340
migration, 113
mineral deficiency stress, 401
mineral toxicity breeding, 400