Plant Breeding Reviews, Volume 43

Contents

1.Maria Isabel Andrade: Sweetpotato Breeder, Technology Transfer Specialist, and Advocate1

2.Development of Cold Climate Grapes in the Upper Midwestern U.S.: The Pioneering Work of Elmer Swenson31

3. Candidate Genes to Extend Fleshy Fruit Shelf Life61

4.Breeding Naked Barley for Food, Feed, and Malt95

5.The Foundations, Continuing Evolution, and Outcomes from the Application of Intellectual Property Protection in Plant Breeding and Agriculture121

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)215

7.Gender and Farmer Preferences for Varietal Traits: Evidence and Issues for Crop Improvement243

8.Domestication, Genetics, and Genomics of the American Cranberry279

9.Images and Descriptions of Cucurbita maxima in Western Europe in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries317