Author : Sir Joseph Burtt Hutchinson
Release : 1958
Genre : Plant breeding
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Genetics and the Improvement of Tropical Crops, an Inaugural Lecture by : Sir Joseph Burtt Hutchinson

Download or read book Genetics and the Improvement of Tropical Crops, an Inaugural Lecture written by Sir Joseph Burtt Hutchinson. This book was released on 1958. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is perhaps appropriati that the relation between genetics and crop-plant improvement should be the subject of a lecture in this School, since it was here that some of the first attepts to apply Mendelian theory to practical plant breeding were made, and theory to practical plant breendig were made, and the School was the birthplace of famous new cropplant varieties as Yeomen and Holdfast wheats and Proctor barley. I have given notice in my title of my intention to restrict myself to tropical crops, because it is of tropical crops that I have some experience, but I hope to show that the conclusions to be drawn from their study are of general application, and that a knowledge of the genetics of tropical crops is a sound base from which to launch an incursion into the field of applied genetics temperate regions.