TY  - BOOK
AU  - Suza,Walter
AU  - Lamkey,Kendall
AU  - Mumm,Rita H.
ED  - Open Textbook Library
TI  - Cultivar Development
T2  - Open textbook library
AV  - QE1 
CY  - Minneapolis, MN
PB  - Open Textbook Library
KW  - Earth Sciences
KW  - Textbooks
N1  - About the PBEA Series -- Chapter 1: Plant Breeders Rise to the Challenge of Feeding the World -- Chapter 2: The Process of Cultivar Development: Pure Line Variety -- Chapter 3: New Line Development and New Line Evaluation: Single-cross Hybrid -- Chapter 4: New Line Development and New Line Evaluation: Clonally Propagated Cultivars -- Chapter 5: Value-added Trait Integration -- Chapter 6: Optimization of Product Pipeline -- Chapter 7: Launching Improved Cultivars -- Contributors -- Applied Learning Activities
N2  - This open textbook places emphasis on the design of a process pipeline for continuous development of new improved cultivars as a means to implement the cycle of crop improvement. Essential topics in New Line Development and New Line Evaluation are addressed, such as choice of parents, creation of progeny, and evaluation and selection of progeny. Students learn to design a process pipeline to produce improved cultivars that meet a specific product target which represents stakeholders’ needs
UR  - https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/1515
ER  -