Plant Breeding Reviews, Volume 22

Jules Janick is the James Troop Distinguished Professor of Horticulture at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN, USA.

• List of Contributors viii1. Dedication: Denton E. Alexander; Teacher, Maize Geneticist, and Breeder 1Robert J. Lambert2. Estimating and Interpreting Heritability for Plant Breeding: An Update 9James B. Holland, Wyman E. Nyquist, and Cuauhtemoc T. Cervantes-MartínezI. The Meaning of Heritability 10II. Response to Selection 12III. Covariances of Relatives 21IV. Variance Among Selection Units 25V. Estimating Heritability as a Function of Variance Components 29VI. Estimating Heritability from Parent-Offspring Regression 65VII. Estimating Realized Heritability 69VIII. Examples of Heritability Estimates 70Appendices 102Literature Cited 1083. Advanced Statistical Methods for Estimating Genetic Variances in Plants 113Shizhong XuI. Introduction 113II. Genetic Model 118III. Least Squares Estimation 132IV. Maximum Likelihood Analysis 138V. Bayesian Analysis 152VI. Discussion and Conclusions 157Literature Cited 1614. Oil Palm Genetic Improvement 165A. C. Soh, G. Wong, T. Y. Hor, C. C. Tan, and P. S. ChewI. Introduction 166II. Germplasm Resources 169III. Improvement Objectives 174IV. Breeding Techniques 180V. Future Prospects 205Literature Cited 2065. Breeding Wheat for Resistance to Insects 221William A. Berzonsky, Hongjian Ding, Scott D. Haley, Marion O. Harris, Robert J. Lamb, R. I. H. McKenzie, Herbert W. Ohm, Fred L. Patterson, Frank Peairs, David R. Porter, Roger H. Ratcliffe, and Thomas G. ShanowerI. Introduction 222II. Wheat Stem Sawfly 225III. Wheat Midge 234IV. Hessian Fly 247V. Russian Wheat Aphid 260VI. Greenbug 270Literature Cited 2786. Peanut Breeding and Genetic Resources 297C. Corley Holbrook and H. Thomas StalkerI. Introduction 298II. Evolution and Taxonomy 300III. Reproductive Development 305IV. Cytogenetics and Genomes 307V. Genetic Resources 309VI. Breeding Peanut 316VII. Summary 338Literature Cited 3407. History and Breeding of Table Beet in the United States 357I. L. Goldman and J. P. NavazioI. Introduction 358II. Crop Origins 359III. Horticulture of Table Beet 361IV. Genetics and Breeding 367V. Breeding Methods 376VI. Future Directions 384Literature Cited 3868. Yeast as a Molecular Genetic System for Improvement of Plant Salt Tolerance 389Tracie K. Matsumoto, Ray A. Bressan, P. M. Hasegawa, and José M. PardoI. Introduction 390II. Yeast Complementation 394III. Orthologous Plant and Yeast Genes 398IV. Similarity of Cellular Salt Tolerance in Plants and Yeast 415Literature Cited 416Subject Index 427Cumulative Subject Index 428Cumulative Contributor Index 443