Genetic Improvement of Tropical Crops

Part I. Enabling Technologies

1. Statistical Approaches in Plant Breeding: Maximising the Use of theGenetic Information
Joanne K. Stringer, Felicity C. Atkin, Salvador A. Gezan

2. Genomic Selection: State of theArt
Luís Felipe Ventorim Ferrão, Rodomiro Ortiz, Antonio Augusto Franco Garcia

Part II. Crops

3. Tropical Maize (Zea mays L.)
Gregory O. Edmeades, Walter Trevisan, B. M. Prasanna, Hugo Campos

4. Genetic Improvement of Rice (Oryza sativa L.)
Kshirod K. Jena, Eero A. J. Nissila

5. Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz)
Hernan Ceballos, Clair H. Hershey

6. Sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas L.)
Robert O. M. Mwanga, Maria I. Andrade, Edward E. Carey, Jan W. Low, G. Craig Yencho, Wolfgang J. Grüneberg

7. Bananas and Plantains (Musa spp.)
Allan Brown, Robooni Tumuhimbise, Delphine Amah, Brigitte Uwimana, Moses Nyine, Hassan Mduma, David Talengera, Deborah Karamura, Jerome Kuriba, Rony Swennen

8. Oil Palm (Elaeis guineensis)
Brian P. Forster, Baihaqui Sitepu, Umi Setiawati, Eddy S. Kelanaputra, Fazrin Nur, Heru Rusfiandi, Safrina Rahmah, Jennifer Ciomas, Yassier Anwar, Syamsul Bahri, Peter D. S. Caligari

9. Sugarcane (S. officinarum x S. spontaneum)
Marvellous Zhou

Keywords: Life Sciences, Plant Breeding/Biotechnology, Plant Genetics and Genomics, Tree Biology