This chapter describes sweet sorghum characteristics and utilization as food and fuel; climate requirements and distribution; reproductive biology including floral biology, pollination, fertilization and seed development; genomics; genetic transformation; breeding objectives and methods; and...

This chapter focuses on the importance of pollination and the use of insects, such as bees, as pollinators to increase seed yield. The various cultivar types (open-pollinated and hybrid cultivars) and the usefulness of transgenic technology and genetically modified organisms are discussed and the...

This chapter discusses pollination and fertilization in vegetable seed crops; the use of insects (with Hymenoptera and Diptera as the two most important insect orders concerned with the pollination of vegetable seed crops) to increase seed yield; the problems identified with the very important and...

This chapter reviews: the chromosomes; breeding systems; genetics; genetic linkage maps; genomics; hybrid vigour; genetic male sterility and hybrid breeding; techniques of breeding and cultivar improvement; pollination control in breeding; breeding objectives in edible alliums; selection methods...

Cultivated and wild carrots can hybridize spontaneously, and transgenes may therefore potentially spread from genetically modified carrots into wild populations. This can happen by several different routes. Flowering cultivated carrots may send out pollen to neighbouring populations of wild carrots ...

This chapter discusses bee pollination and briefly describes the plant parts (flowers and fruits) involved in this process. Plant pollination requirements are also described, as well as bees as effective insect pollinators. The ecology of bee pollination and the importance of crop attraction to...