Manual on mutation breeding
Madeleine Spencer-Lopes (Curatore scientifico), Brian P. Forster (Curatore scientifico), Liupcho Jankuloski (Curatore scientifico), Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, International Atomic Energy Agency
"Co-published by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. The previous (2nd) edition of the Manual on Mutation Breeding was published in 1977. After nearly 40 years it is time to up-date this manual as there have been several major developments in the intervening years. There has been an upsurge in the use of induced mutations - for both classical crop improvement and for functional genomic studies - and at the same time, there is an ever increasing and urgent need to generate novel variation in improving crop production: more nutritious, hardy, input use-efficient and productive crop varieties, to underpin 'green' sustainable food production for the 21st century, especially in safe-guarding food security which is challenged by climate change, hunger and world population growth. This 3rd edition of the Manual on Mutation Breeding that you now peruse, describes advances in plant mutation breeding, including basic irradiation techniques as well as chemical mutagenesis, in both seed-propagated and vegetatively propagated crops. The manual provides comprehensive overviews and guidelines for new high throughput screening methods - both phenotypic and genotypic - that are currently available to enable the detection of rare and valuable mutant traits and reviews techniques for increasing the efficiency of crop mutation breeding. Most of all the manual provides practical, hands on, methods in plant mutation breeding techniques, with clear illustrated step-by-step protocols. The Manual on Mutation Breeding is founded on the experience and knowledge of the staff of the Plant Breeding and Genetics Section and Laboratory of the Joint FAO/IAEA Division - past and present - and has been written in collaboration with external scientists who are internationally renowned experts in specific fields. The combined contributions, backed by the richness of the Mutant Variety Database of the Joint FAO/IAEA Division, represents a valuable resource for all those interested in the resurgence of plant mutation breeding."--Page 4 of cover
eBook, English, 2018
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, 2018