Plant Breeding Reviews

<p><b>Contents</b> <ul> <p>1. Maria Isabel Andrade: Sweetpotato Breeder, Technology Transfer Specialist, and Advocate <b>1</b> <p>2. Development of Cold Climate Grapes in the Upper Midwestern U.S.: The Pioneering Work of Elmer Swenson <b>31</b> <p>3. Candidate Genes to Extend Fleshy Fruit Shelf Life <b>61</b> <p>4. Breeding Naked Barley for Food, Feed, and Malt <b>95</b> <p>5. The Foundations, Continuing Evolution, and Outcomes from the Application of Intellectual Property Protection in Plant Breeding and Agriculture <b>121</b> <p>6. The Use of Endosperm Genes for Sweet Corn Improvement: A review of developments in endosperm genes in sweet corn since the seminal publication in Plant Breeding Reviews, Volume 1, by Charles Boyer and Jack Shannon (1984) <b>215</b> <p>7. Gender and Farmer Preferences for Varietal Traits: Evidence and Issues for Crop Improvement <b>243</b> <p>8. Domestication, Genetics, and Genomics of the American Cranberry <b>279</b> <p>9. Images and Descriptions of <i>Cucurbita maxima</i> in Western Europe in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries <b>317</b> </ul>