Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9789389412833
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
Tree Breeding and Improvement
Author: Tree Breeding and Improvement Theory and Technology
Author: K.T. ParthibanPublisher: Scientific Publishers
ISBN: 9389412846
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
Tree Breeding and lmprovement is gaining significant attention and attraction across the country as a scientific tool to enhance the productivity and wood quality besides facilitating conservation of Forest Genetic Resources. The science of Tree Breeding is comparatively young but extended greater scope in the recent past in operational plantation development programme. The Tree Breeding and lmprovement has been incorporated as a subject in Under Graduate as well as Post graduate degree programme in Forestry offered at various State Agricultural Universities of the country. The existing text books on Tree Breeding are very limited and the practical aspects of tree breeding have not been evidenced in most books. The students and the tree breeding scientists require a comprehensive text book incorporating all theoretical and practical aspects of tree breeding. Accordingly the current book entitled “TREE BREEDING AND IMPROVEMENT - THEORY AND TECHNlQUES” has been designed with 18 chapters. The basic and fundamental aspects of tree breeding have been presented in chapter 1. The chapters 2 and 3 elaborate the Center’s of origin and pollination mechanism of trees. The theoretical and practical aspects of tree breeding methods, hybrid development, genetic tests and their biometric analysis have been presented with suitable field level examples from chapter 4 to 9. Incorporation of Seed orchard, clonal forestry, Exotic Forestry and Forest Biotechnology with -the-state-of-art- recent development will find greater utility by the students and researchers. Above all, the chapters on Varietal Developmental Process, Variety Registration and Organizations involved in tree breeding will have profound utility. ln a holistic perspective, the information furnished in the book will act as a great piece of information to the graduating scholars to understand theoretical and practical aspects of tree breeding towards satisfying their academic needs besides applying them in tree breeding research. For the scientists and teaching faculties, the book will act as a ready reckoner not only for reference but also to apply them in all field level applications.
Tree Improvement
Author: Sunil PuriPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Contributed articles.
Experimental Design and Analysis for Tree Improvement
Author: ER WilliamsPublisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 0643098887
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Experimental Design and Analysis for Tree Improvement provides a set of practical procedures to follow when planning, designing and analysing tree improvement trials. Using many fully-worked examples, it outlines how to: design field, glasshouse and laboratory trials; efficiently collect data and construct electronic data files; pre-process data, screening for data quality and outliers; analyse data from single and across-site trials using either GenStat or SAS; and interpret the results from statistical analyses. The authors address the many practical issues often faced in forest tree improvement trials and describe techniques that will give conclusive results with the minimum expense. The techniques provided are applicable to the improvement of not only trees, but to crops in general. Building on the success of the first edition, this edition includes commercially-available software packages for design generation (CycDesigN) and data pre-processing and automated generation of programs for statistical analysis (DataPlus). For analysis, it provides both GenStat and SAS programs as generated by DataPlus.
Tree Breeding: Principles and Strategies
Author: G. NamkoongPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461238927
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
It has become apparent, during discussions with students and colleagues in forest genetics, that a universal concern is the achievement of diverse goals of forestry from fiber production in industrial as well as farm forests to conserving forest ecosystems. Although we generally have several breeding methods available and several species to breed, we seek to satisfy multiple-use goals on diverse sites by management techniques that at best can only partially control edaphic environmental variation. The dominant approach, which was agriculturally motivated, has involved inten sive effort with complicated breeding plans on single species for uniform adaptability and single-product plantations. However, this is obviously neither the only, nor necessarily the best, solution for the genetic management of tree species, and thus our intent in this volume is to develop ways to achieve multiple objectives in tree breeding. We include an array of breeding plans from simple iterated designs to sets of multiple populations capable of using gene actions for different traits in different environments for uncertain futures. The presentation is organized around the development of breeding from single-to multiple-option plans, from single to multiple traits, from single to mUltiple environ ments, and from single to multiple populations. However, it is not a complete "How To" book, and includes neither exercises nor instructions on data handling. It also does not include discussion of all modes of reproduction and inheritance encountered in plants.
Tree Breeding for Genetic Improvement of Tropical Tree Species
Author: P. E. BedellPublisher: Allied Publishers
ISBN: 9788177648911
Category : Trees
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Forest Tree Imporvement And Seed Technology
Author: Dr. M. Dutta & Dr. G. C. SainiPublisher:
ISBN: 9788170893554
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Forest Tree Improvement and seed Technology are relatively neglected subjects as compared to forest management in general. Importance of forest improvement and seed technology has become important in recent years as forests have a significant role in maintaining climatic balance and conservation of biodiversity. The impending climate change may have a catastrophic effect on the ecological health of planet earth and may imperil the survival of life itself. This book is a modest effort in bringing out fundamental scientific information on forest tree improvement and forest seed science and technology in one compilation and therefore may prove useful to the researchers ad students of forestry.
Experimental Design and Analysis for Tree Improvement
Author: A. C... MathesonPublisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 148631712X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Experimental Design and Analysis for Tree Improvement provides a set of practical procedures to follow when planning, designing and analysing tree improvement trials. Using examples, it outlines how to: design field, glasshouse and laboratory trials efficiently collect and construct electronic data files pre-process data, screening for data quality and outliers analyse data from single and across-site trials interpret the results from statistical analyses. The authors address the many practical issues often faced in forest tree improvement trials and describe techniques that will give meaningful results. The techniques provided are applicable to the improvement of not only trees, but to crops in general. This fully revised third edition includes the construction of p-rep and spatial designs using the commercially available software package for design generation (CycDesigN). For analysis of the examples, it provides online Genstat and SAS programs and a link to R programs.
Bibliography on Tree Breeding and Seed Technology
Author: B. BirkenhaegerExperimental Design and Analysis for Tree Improvement
Author: Emlyn R WilliamsPublisher: Cabi
ISBN: 9781800624504
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Experimental Design and Analysis for Tree Improvement provides a set of practical procedures to follow when planning, designing and analyzing tree improvement trials. Using examples, it outlines how to: - design field, glasshouse and laboratory trials - efficiently collect and construct electronic data files - pre-process data, screening for data quality and outliers - analyze data from single and across-site trials - interpret the results from statistical analyses. The authors address the many practical issues often faced in forest tree improvement trials and describe techniques that will give meaningful results. The techniques provided are applicable to the improvement of not only trees, but to crops in general. This fully revised third edition includes the construction of p-rep and spatial designs using the commercially available software package for design generation (CycDesigN). For analysis of the examples, it provides online Genstat and SAS programs and a link to R programs.