A Manual Nur, Fazrin Primary Author mixed material bibliography United Kingdom CABI Publishing 2018 en English

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As noted in the Foreword to this series, a central objective in Verdant Bioscience’s mission is to develop better cultivars of oil palm, rubber and other plantation crops through plant breeding. Essential to this objective is a wide germplasm base. Conventional breeding is practised by Verdant in the development of new cultivars. However, this can be a time-consuming exercise, especially as the generation time in oil palm is 4–5 years. Verdant is therefore committed to accelerated breeding methods, one of which is mutation breeding. Mutation breeding is not a genetic manipulation (GM) technique and, indeed, it has been practised for many decades; the first mutant cultivar was produced in tobacco in Indonesia in 1934. There are now well over 3000 mutant cultivars in over 200 crop species (http://mvgs.iaea.org) worldwide. It is notable that oil palm is the only oil crop not to have been improved with the aid of mutation breeding, although some experiments have been carried out. In this manual, we give an introduction to mutation breeding and practical protocols on mutation induc- tion and mutant selection in oil palm. Our target audiences are students and researchers in agriculture, plant breeders, growers and end-users interested in the practicalities of producing novel oil palm genotypes for further breeding and commercial exploitation. EBOOK oil palm NONE 9781786396235 e-BOOK UPT Perpustakaan Instiper Yogyakarta Techniques_in_Plantation_Science_Series_Mutation_Breeding_in_Oil_Palm.jpg.jpg 508 2019-07-04 10:23:46 2019-07-04 10:24:01 machine generated