Jerome Malitz - Plants for the Future: A Gardeners Wishbook
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The author speculates on the plants that may be created in the future by genetic engineering and creative hybridization. He presents a wishlist by observing desirable qualities found in tender or fussy members within various plant families that might be bred into hardier species.
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Copyright 1996 by Timber Press, Inc. All rights reserved.
ISBN 0-88192-349-4
Printed in Hong Kong
TIMBER PRESS, INC. The Haseltine Building 133 S.W. Second Avenue, Suite 450 Portland, Oregon 97204, U.S.A.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Malitz, Jerome, 1936 Plants for the future : a gardener's wishbook / by Jerome Malitz. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-88192-349-4 1. Plants, OrnamentalBreeding. 2. Plant introduction. 3. Plants, OrnamentalVarieties. I. Title SB406.8.M34 1996 635.9'1523dc20 95-37113 CIP
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To Suzy, Seth, and Jed
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CONTENTS
Preface
11
Acknowledgments
13
Part I. Creating the Plants of the Future
Chapter 1. Introduction
17
Chapter 2. What's in a Name?
21
Defining the Taxonomic Hierarchy
22
Sources of Data
23
The Traditional Approach: The Relative Primacy of Traits
24
The Modern Approach: Computers and Mathematical Formulae
25
Chapter 3. The Inheritance of Traits
27
Cells and Cell Structure
28
Genes and Chromosomes
28
Mitosis and Differentiation
30
Meiosis
33
Generation F2: Where Recessive Traits are Expressed
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