2008 Project and Review Guidelines
Notes (will be updated as we cover each section)
Required Readings (added was we go)
Overview
Darwin, C. 1859. On the Origin of Species, portions of Chapter 1.
Tracy, W.F. 2004. What is Plant Breeding? p. 23-30. In: M. Sligh and L. Lauffer (eds.) Summit on Seeds and Breeds for 21st Century Agriculture. RAFI-USA. Pittsboro, NC.
Genetic Principles
Fehr, Chapter 3.
Genetic Resources
Simmonds, N.W. 1993. Introgression and incorporation strategies for the use of crop genetic resources. Biol. Rev. 68:539-562.
Tanksley, S.D.
and S.R. McCouch. 1997. Seed banks and molecular maps: Unlocking genetic potential from the wild. Science 277:1063-1066.
Recurrent Selection
Burton, G.W. 1982. Improved recurrent restricted phenotypic selection increases bahiagrass forage yields. Crop. Sci. 22:1058-1061.
Burton, G.W. and B.G. Mullinix. 1998. Yield distributions of spaced plants within Pensacola bahiagrass populations developed by recurrent restricted phenotypic selection. Crop Sci. 333-336.
Maximizing Genetic Gain
Weyhrich, R.A., K.R. Lamkey, and A.R. Hallauer. 1998. Responses to seven methods of recurrent selection in the BS11 maize population. Crop Sci. 38:308-321.
Selection for Wide vs Local Adaptation
Simmonds, N.W. 1991. Selection for local adaptation in a plant breeding program. Theor. Appl. Genet. 82:363-367.
Marker-assisted Selection
Sanchez, A.C., D.S. Brar, N. Huang, Z. Li, and G.S. Khush. 2000. Sequence tagged site marker-assisted selection for three bacterial blight resistance genes in rice. Crop Sci. 40:792-797.
Bernardo, R. 2008. Molecular markers and selection for complex traits in plants: Learning from the last 20 years. Crop Sci. 48:1649-1664.
Peleman, J.D. and J.R. van der Voort. 2003. Breeding by design. Trends Plant Sci. 8: 330-334.
Breeding Apomictic Species
Miles, J.W. 2007. Apomixis for cultivar development in tropical forage grasses. Crop Sci. 47(S3) S238-S249.
Homework Assignments
Homework 1, 2008
Old
Exams (from Agron 521 - Principles of Cultivar Development at Iowa State University)
Exam 1, 2004
Exam 2, 2004
Exam 3, 2004
Final Exam, 2004