Quantitative Genetics, Genomics and Plant Breeding. Edited by M. S. KANG. CABI Publishing. 2002. 400 pages. ISBN 0 851 996019. Price £75.00. (hardback).

Quantitative Genetics, Genomics, and the Future of Plant Breeding

Quantitative genetics (in its various guises) has been the intellectual cornerstone of plant breeding for close to 100 years. While the roots of Mendelian genetics, and its rediscovery, are firmly in the hands of plant breeders, it was Fisher's (1918) variance decomposition paper that marks the modern foundation for both quantitative genetics and plant breeding. We are now embarking on the age ...

Critical Readings in Translation Studies, Edited by M. Baker (2010), Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-46955-5

critical readings in translation studies, edited by m. baker (2010), routledge, isbn 978-0-415-46955-5

Genomics and Plant Breeding

The recent announcements of the breakthroughs in obtaining the oil palm genome sequence map herald a new chapter in oil palm genetic improvement. These breakthroughs will spur the further development of oil palm genomics. This article examines how genomics would impact plant and oil palm breeding. The knowledge derived from genomics research in terms of the DNA structure of a gene, how it funct...

Food Safety and International Competitiveness: the Case of Beef CABI Publishing; ISBN 0 85199 424 5; £40.00.

By presenting this collection of timely and interesting papers in a single volume, Evans et al. make a valuable contribution to the growing literature on social inequalities in health. The volume includes work from and about countries on all the continents, and a wide range of conceptual, methodological, and empirical approaches. Anyone concerned with achieving greater equity in health and deve...