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Originally Posted by camille1585
The textbook I used last year was called 'Principles of Plant Genetics and Breeding' by George Acquaah from 2006. It's easy to read but it's not at all for the hobby breeder. It's really axed towards future pro breeders presenting both classical and molecular breeding tools, as well as different breeding schemes based on the type of plant you are dealing with.
If you are interested, I have all the powerpoint presentations from my lectures last year. There are lectures on breeding allogamous, autogamous, asexually progagated and hybrid crops, on mutation breeding, on breeding for quality traits, as well as molecular approaches to crop improvement and also selection methods.... Just to name a few!
Breeding is no longer my specialization, I quickly changed over to phytopathology and entomology. My main area of interest is plant-insect interactions, on an ecological and molecular level. My Masters major thesis is in on cabbage-aphid-caterpillar interactions, and I'm currently in discussion with Cornell U to do my minor thesis there, in the same domain. I find playing with insects to be way funner than plant breeding!
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I'd LOVE a copy of your lecture notes! (shh i won't tell anyone). thanks! Ill pm you my email. I don't have anything to swap (unless you're interested in cognitive neuropsychology, abnormal psychology or Heideggerian philosophy? LOL).
I did see that text searching at the uni library but it was at the country campus and i can't get out there. Most of the texts were grain-based (especially here in Aus) so not sure i would have gotten a lot out of them anyway.
I can imagine why you changed from breeding, just by looking at the text, it's very dry and mathematical.. although not sure i would have switched to bugs
.. I was semi-interested in orchid flower volatile scent compounds a while back, and i thought flower/pollinator interactions looked interesting though.
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