George Acquaah - Principles of Plant Genetics and Breeding

30 Chapter 32Figure 32.1 The evolution of the Syngenta AG seed company. CH, Switzerland; ...Figure 32.2 A sample seed tag.Figure B32.1 Chickpea.Figure B32.2 Pigeonpea.Figure B32.3 Groundnut.Figure B32.4 Sorghum.Figure B32.5 Pearl millet.Figure B32.6 Finger millet.

31 Chapter 34Figure 34.1 A diagrammatic presentation of how the technology protection sys...

32 Chapter 35Figure B35.1 The scheme of decentralized participatory barley breeding imple...Figure B35.2 Syria Farmers visual selection.Figure B35.3 The participatory barley breeding in Syria at its peak (7 provi...Figure B35.4 Dr. Norman Borlaug in a wheat experimental field.Figure B35.5 Photocopies of the original Nobel citation for Dr. Norman Borla...

33 Chapter 37Figure B37.1 Heterosis in maize: A × B hybrid ears in the middle and corresp...Figure B37.2 Relative grains yield of an open pollinated population and a si...Figure B37.3 General scheme for the development of maize inbreds and hybrids...

34 Chapter 38Figure B38.1 Rice panicle being prepared for emasculation prior to making a ...Figure B38.2 Plant height is measured in yield plots after flowering has occ...Figure B38.3 Rice cultivars are evaluated for their reaction to a mixture of...Figure B38.4 Milled rice flour is used to determine grain amylose content.Figure B38.5 A foundation seed field of Saber rice.Figure B38.6 DNA markers on chromosome 2 that are associated with the Pi‐b b...

35 Chapter 39Figure B39.1 Schematic of the sorghum hybrid seed production process utilizi...Figure B39.2 Pedigree breeding scheme used by the TAES sorghum breeding prog...Figure B39.3 Map of Texas indicating locations used by the TAES sorghum bree...Figure B39.4 The advanced testing and sterilization scheme used by the TAES ...

36 Chapter 40Figure B40.1 Soybean plants infected with M. phaseolina that have wilted and...Figure B40.2 Microsclerotia on the lower interior (vascular, cortical, and p...

37 Chapter 43Figure B43.1 A comparison of resource cost per unit genetic fain between cot...

38 Chapter 44Figure B44.1 Tomato cultivars for fresh consumption growing in modern glass ...Figure B44.2 Diversified fruit colors and shapes of modern tomato cultivars....

39 1Figure S1.1 Maternal inheritance of the iojap (ij) gene in maize. The wild t...Figure S1.2 Diagrammatic presentation of mitosis in a cell with diploid numb...Figure S1.3 Diagrammatic presentation of meiosis in a cell with diploid numb...Figure S1.4 Genetic linkage. (a) Linked genes AB/ab are transmitted intact f...Figure S1.5 Crossover is preceded by the formation of bivalents, the pairing...Figure S1.6 A diagrammatic presentation of (a) penetrance and (b) expressivi...Figure S1.7 The basic chemical structure of a nucleotide molecule, showing i...Figure S1.8 The DNA molecule has a double helix structure comprising a sugar...Figure S1.9 A tRNA molecule has a cloverleaf shape. Two parts of special int...Figure S1.10 The central dogma of molecular genetics, showing the informatio...Figure S1.11 (a) The structure of an amino acid consists of three units – an...Figure S1.12 The genetic code may be likened to a coding dictionary for cons...Figure S1.13 Alternative splicing of the mRNA in eukaryotes to remove intron...Figure S1.14 A diagrammatic presentation of a typical eukaryotic gene showin...Figure S1.15 Schematic representation of the regulation of gene expression s...

40 2Figure S2.1 Standard normal distribution curve.Figure S2.2 The linear regression line.Figure BS2.1 Three‐way (Fig. 1a) and four‐way (Fig. 1b) classification/visua...Figure BS2.2 A hierarchical cluster analysis of Brassica napus germplasm bas...Figure BS2.3 Loadings of a selected number of variables on the first two fac...Figure BS2.4 Trait loadings on the first and second principal components acc...Figure BS2.5 Multidimensional scaling of agronomic traits along the first tw...Figure BS2.6 Canonical correlation between two sets of agronomic traits in B ...Figure BS2.7 Multiple correspondence analysis of several categorical agronom...Figure BS2.8 Percent correct classification, multivariate distances and dist...Figure BS2.9 Multiple comparisons between Brassica napus germplasm maturity–...Figure BS2.10 Partial least squares regression to predict oil% as a function...Figure BS2.11 Path analysis (as part of structural equation modeling) showin...Figure S2.3 The basic concept of path analysis.

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