Agricultural Genetics From the DNA Molecule to Population Management

Readers will find in this book a comprehensive text on the intersection of genetic and agriculture, addressing the different levels at which DNA is studied for agricultural purposes. The different subdivisions of genetics (molecular, Mendelian, quantitative and populations) are all discussed in the light of agriculture research and practice. Agricultural Genetics aims to be a support for advanced and undergraduate students taking courses on biology, genetics and breeding applied to agriculture, both for plant sciences and animal sciences.

Part I. Molecular Genetics.- Chapter 1. Introduction to genetics.- Chapter. 2. DNA as hereditary material.- Chapter. 3. Central Dogma of Molecular Biology.- Chapter. 4. Applications of molecular biology in agriculture.- Part. II. Mendelian Genetics.- Chapter. 5. DNA, Genes, Cells and Mendelian Genetics.- Chapter. 6. Gene interactions.- Chapter. 7. Sex-linked inheritance.- Chapter. 8. Gene linkage.- Chapter. 9. Extranuclear inheritance.- Chapter. 10. Chromosomal mutations.- Part. III. Population Management.- Chapter. 11. Population genetics.- Chapter. 12. Quantitative Genetics.- Chapter. 13. Heterosis.- Chapter. 14. Population management and Genetic Improvement.

Hernán Eduardo Laurentin Táriba is an agronomist from Universidad Centroccidental Lisandro Alvarado, Magister Scientiarum in Agronomy from Universidad Central de Venezuela and Ph. D. in Agricultural Sciences from Georg-August University. He is a lecturer in Genetics, Plant Breeding and Seed Production at Universidad Centroccidental Lisandro Alvarado since 1997. He's the Head of sesame breeding program in Universidad Centroccidental Lisandro Alvarado and of breeding and seed programs in sesame, vegetable species and maize for several private companies in Venezuela.