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This book fully integrates the conventional and biotechnological approaches to fruit crop breeding. Individual chapters are written on a wide variety of species including apple, apricot, blackberry, blueberry, cranberry, cherry, currant, gooseberry, grape, kiwifruit, peach, pear, plum, raspberry and strawberry. For each crop, there is a discussion of their taxonomy and evolution, history of improvement, crossing techniques, evaluation methods, heritability of major traits and germplasm resources, along with the most recent advances in genetic mapping and QTL (quantitative trait loci) analysis, marker assisted breeding, gene cloning, gene expression analysis, regeneration and transformation. Patenting and licensing issues are also covered. This book will be useful in fruit breeding classes and should provide as a springboard for all fruit breeders desiring an update on the latest technologies, horticulturalists who wonder what is being done in fruit breeding and genomicists searching for a way to contribute to fruit breeding efforts.

Fruit --- Breeding. --- Development. --- Fruiting --- Fruit breeding --- Life sciences. --- Botany. --- Plant anatomy. --- Plant genetics. --- Life Sciences, general. --- Plant Sciences. --- Plant Anatomy/Development. --- Plant Genetics and Genomics. --- Plants --- Genetics --- Botany --- Plant structure --- Structural botany --- Vegetable anatomy --- Anatomy --- Botanical science --- Phytobiology --- Phytography --- Phytology --- Plant biology --- Plant science --- Biology --- Natural history --- Biosciences --- Sciences, Life --- Science --- Structure --- Plant science. --- Plant development. --- Development of plants --- Plant development --- Developmental biology --- Growth (Plants) --- Ontogeny --- Floristic botany