Table of Contents

Part 1 Enabling Technologies.- Chapter 1 Statistical Approaches in Plant Breeding: Maximizing the Use of the Genetic Information.- Chapter 2 Genomic Selection – State of the Art.- Part 2  Crops.- Chapter 3 Tropical Maize (Zea mays L.).- Chapter 4 Rice (Oryza sativa L.).- Chapter 5 Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz).- Chapter 6 Sweetpotato, (Ipomoea batatas L.).- Chapter 7 Bananas and Plantains (Musa spp.).- Chapter 8 Oil Palm (Elaeis guinensis).- Chapter 9 Sugarcane (S. officinarum X S. spontaneum).

About the Author

Hugo Campos, Ph.D Over 26 years of international experience in developing varieties and leading plant breeding and biotechnology teams in diverse tropical and temperate crop species. Director of Research at the International Potato Center, a CGIAR center in Lima, Peru. Previously worked at Centro de Tecnologia Canavieira (Brazil), Dupont Pioneer (US and Chile) and Monsanto (several Latin American countries) in international roles of increasing responsibility. Research Fellow at Monsanto, and while at Monsanto received twice the prestigious “Above and Beyond” award for achievements well beyond expectations. B.A. in Agronomy at the Universidad Austral de Chile, Highest Honours, Ph.D. at the John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK, and MBA at the Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile. This is his second book, having previously published with J. Brown and P.D.S. Caligari the book Plant breeding 2nd Edition (Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.). Member of the Scientific Board of Verdant BioScience (Singapore).

Peter D. S. Caligari, D. Sc. Over 40 years of international experience in conducting research and developing varieties through plant breeding and biotechnology in diverse tropical and temperate crop species. Science Strategy Executive Director of Verdant Bioscience.  Previously, Full Professor at the Universidad de Talca, Chile, Fellow of the Royal Biology Society and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (UK), Full member of the Chilean Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Previously Professor of Agricultural Botany and Head of the Department of Agricultural Botany at the University of Reading (UK). Prof. Caligari has had a distinguished and very successful career, including ana very extensive lists of published scientific papers and several books (Brown, J., Caligari, P.D.S & Campos, H.  2014 Plant Breeding 2nd Edition.  Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK;   Brown, J. & Caligari, P.D.S. 2008 An Introduction to Plant Breeding.  Blackwell Scientific, Oxford, UK. pp 224; Bos, I and Caligari, P.D.S.  2008.  Selection Methods in Plant Breeding - 2nd Edition, Springer. The Netherlands) as well as extensive peer review for international journals, grant awarding bodies etc. Director or Managing Director of several companies.