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Sections:
Introduction
Principles of inheritance
Genotypic variation
Other forms of heritable variation
Quantitative variation and heritability
Novel sources of genetic variation
The practice of plant breeding
Breeding methods
Plant Breeders' rights
New technologies for plant breeding
Phenotyping technologies
Phenotyping technologies: aerial photography
Aerial photography: example
Transgenics
Marker-Assisted Breeding (MAB)
DNA sequencing
Next generation sequencing
Genotyping by reduced representation
Genomic selection
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS)
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Aerial photography: example

Here an aerial photograph of a field of reed canarygrass plots has been transformed into a computerized image that can be used to measure plant width, etc.

(Thanks to Dr. Moira Sheehan)