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Utilization of plant genetic resources in crop breeding programmes

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Title Utilization of plant genetic resources in crop breeding programmes
 
Creator Bidinger, F R
 
Subject Genetics and Genomics
Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description There are a wide variety of ways in which plant genetic resources are used in crop
breeding programmes. These depend upon the problems which the breeder is t&g
to solve, the resources at hand to solve them, the reproductive biology of the crop,
and the availability of appropriate genetic resources collections. The important fact is
that all breeding programmes depend on genetic resources of one type or another to
make progress in improving yield, disease or pest resistance, and produd quality of
the crop, forage or ornamental plants they are responsible for. This paper considers
in general terms some of the important ways in which genetic resources collections
are used in m&k plant breeding programmes, and illustrates the general principles
with an example of different uses of a very good national genetic resources collection
in a breeding programme currently in its initial stages in Namibia.
 
Date 1991
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/4377/1/CP-762.pdf
Bidinger, F R (1991) Utilization of plant genetic resources in crop breeding programmes. In: First National Workshop on Plant Genetic Resources, 19-21 Nov 1991, ICRISAT Patancheru, India.