George Acquaah - Principles of Plant Genetics and Breeding

Section XIIfocuses on the variety release process, including discussion of G × E interaction in Chapter 31, seed certification in Chapter 32, and regulatory issues in Chapter 33. Section XIIIincludes Chapter 34that deals with ethical and other social issues associated with the use of modern technologies in breeding. The chapter ends the section with a discussion of the role international organizations in breeding. Section XIV, the final section in the book, is devoted to briefly discussing the breeding of selected crops.

The author extends special gratitude to all old and new contributors to the industry highlights in the third edition. Several of these contributors were invited rather late to provide papers for inclusion in the new edition. Nonetheless, they came through with excellent papers. More importantly, the box readings are very detailed in the information they provide, and illustrate how the principles and concepts discussed in the main text are applied in addressing selected plant breeding problems.

I acknowledge, with appreciation, professors and industry professionals around the globe who have adopted this textbook for their courses. I am grateful for the encouragement and commendations from professionals and students to produce this new edition, and especially to those who pointed out errors and typos, as well as those who suggested areas that needed updating.

My love and appreciation go to my dear wife, Dr. Theresa Acquaah, and wonderful children, Parry, Kwasi, Bozuma, and Tina, who had to put up with all the time I took time away from them to focus on this great project. Finally, to my father, Dr. J.C. El‐Shadai, I am grateful for your loving kindness, support, and guidance throughout this project.

Chapter 1

Training Game Changers in Plant Breeding at the West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI) in Africa for Africa

Eric Danquah, Samule Offei, and Ronnie Coffman

Chapter 2

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Chapter 3

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Chapter 4

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Chapter 5

Introgression Breeding on Tomatoes for Resistance to Powdery Mildew

Yuling Bai

Chapter 6

Maize and Tripsacum : Experiments in Intergeneric Hybridization and the Transfer of Apomixis: A Historical Review

Bryan Kindiger

Chapter 7

Use of Comparative Molecular Markers and Plant Tissue Culture Techniques for Genetic Diversity Assessment and Rapid Production of Musa Species at Bowie State University

David Okeh Igwe, George Nkem Ude, and George Acquaah

Chapter 8

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Chapter 9

The Use of the Wild Potato Species, Solanum etuberosum , in Developing Virus and Insect‐Resistant Potato Varieties

Richard Novy

Chapter 10

Plant Genetic Resources for Breeding

K. Hammer, F. Heuser, K. Khoshbakht, Y. Teklu

Chapter 11

Barley Breeding in the United Kingdom

W.T.B. Thomas

Chapter 12

Development of High Pro‐Vitamin A‐Enriched Hybrid Maize Varieties in Ghana

Alexander Wireko Kena, Manfred Bondzie Ewool, Richard Akromah

Chapter 13

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Chapter 14

Breeding for Durable Resistance against Downy Mildew in Lettuce

Marieke Jeuken

Chapter 15

Introgressiomics for Adapting Crops to Climate Change

Mariola Plazas and Pietro Gramazio

Chapter 16

Recurrent Selection with Soybean

Joseph Burton

Chapter 17

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Chapter 18

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Chapter 19

The Practice of Yam Breeding

Asrat Asfaw, Kwabena Darkwa, and Robert Asiedu

Chapter 20

Molecular Marker Survey of Genetic Diversity in the Genus Garcinia

George N. Ude, Brian M. Irish, and George Acquaah

Chapter 21

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Chapter 22

Plant Metabolomic and Elicitation Approaches Enhance the Plant Metabolite Level and Play a Complementary Role in Plant Breeding

Anne Osano

Chapter 23

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Chapter 24

The Use of Haplotype Information in QTL Analysis

Herman J. van Eck

Chapter 25

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Chapter 26

Haploids and Doubled Haploids: Their Generation and Application in Plant Breeding

Sergey Chalyk

Utilizing a Dihaploid‐Gamete Selection Strategy for Tall Fescue Development

Bryan Kindiger

Chapter 27

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Chapter 28

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Chapter 29

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Chapter 30

Bioinformatics and its Applicability in Plant Breeding

David Okeh Igwe, George Nkem Ude, and George Acquaah

Chapter 31

Public Release and Registration of “Prolina” Soybean and Nitrogen Fixation Research Unit

Joseph Burton

Chapter 32

Plant Breeding Research at ICRISAT

P.M. Gaur, A. Ashok Kumar, M. Govindaraj, S.K. Gupta, A. Hingane, P. Janila, S. Sajja, and S. Samineni

Chapter 33

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Chapter 34

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Chapter 35

Normal Ernest Borlaug: The Man and His Passion

George Acquaah

An Example of Participatory Plant Breeding: Barley at ICARDA

Salvatore Ceccarelli and S. Grando

Chapter 36

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Chapter 37

Hybrid Breeding in Maize

Javier Bétran

Chapter 38

Rice Breeding

Anna McClung

Chapter 39

Sorghum Breeding

William Rooney

Chapter 40

Estimating Inheritance Factors and Developing Cultivars for Tolerance to Charcoal Rot in Soybean

James Smith

Chapter 41

Breeding peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) and root‐knot nematode resistance

Charles Simpson

Chapter 42

The Breeding of Potato

John Bradshaw

Chapter 43

Cotton Breeding

Don L. Keim

Chapter 44

The Breeding of Tomato

Yuling Bai

Supplementary Chapter 1

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Supplementary Chapter 2

Multivariate Methods: Applications in Plant Genetics, Breeding and Agronomy

Abdullah A. Jaradat

Acquaah, George. Bowie State University, Bowie, MD, 20715, USA

Akromah, Richard. Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana

Asfaw, Asrat. International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan, Nigeria

Ashok Kumar, A. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi‐Arid Tropics, Patancheru, Hyderabad 502 324, TS, India

Asiedu, Robert. International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan, Nigeria

Bai, Yuling. Wageningen UR Plant Breeding, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Bétran, Javier. Bayer Crop Science

Bradshaw, John. James Hutton Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee, DD2 5DA, UK

Burton, Joseph W. USDA Plant Science Building, 3127 Ligon Street, Raleigh, NC 27607, USA

Charles Simpson, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA

Ceccarelli, Salvatore. Independent Consultants, Corso Mazzini 256, 63100, Ascoli Piceno, Italy

Chalyk, Sergey. Institute of Genetics Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Chisinau, Moldova

Coffman, Ronnie. Director, International Programs, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (IP CALS), Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14850, USA

Danquah, Eric Yirenkyi. International Programmes, University of Ghana, Ghana

Darkwa, Kwabena. International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan, Nigeria

van Eck, Herman J. Laboratory for Plant Breeding, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708PB Wageningen, The Netherlands

Einarson, Stefan. Transnational Learning, International Programs College of Argiculture and Life Sciences (IP CALS), Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14850, USA

Ewool, Manfred Bondzie. Crops Research Institute, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CRI‐CSIR), Fumesua, Ghana