Plant breeding in the 1990s : proceedings of the Symposium on Plant Breeding in the 1990s held at North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC March 1991

This book presents the edited papers from a major international conference on plant breeding due to be held at Raleigh, North Carolina, in March 1991. The contents are divided into five main sections - the gene base for plant breeding, modification of plants to tolerate stresses due to diseases and insects, contributions from biotechnology to plant improvement, strategies for utilizing unadapted germplasm. The contributors are from the USA, Europe and the Philippines and include K.J. Frey, R.W. Allard, A.R. Hallauer, J.E. Parlevliet, G.S. Khush, R.B. Flavell, R. Lande, S.J. Peloquin, P.R. Day and others.