Wheat Breeding

Wheat Breeding
Title Wheat Breeding PDF eBook
Author F. Lupton
Publisher Springer
Pages 575
Release 2014-11-14
Genre Science
ISBN 940093131X

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The World Wheat Book

The World Wheat Book
Title The World Wheat Book PDF eBook
Author Alain P. Bonjean
Publisher Intercept Limited
Pages 1131
Release 2001-01
Genre Nature
ISBN 9781898298724

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This work is a comprehensive history of wheat across all its main areas of production. New techniques such as in vitro culture now enable the development of a greater level of understanding of the genetics of wheat.

Hybrid

Hybrid
Title Hybrid PDF eBook
Author Noel Kingsbury
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 510
Release 2011-11-15
Genre Gardening
ISBN 0226437132

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"Noel Kingsbury reveals that even those imaginary perfect foods are themselves far from anything that could properly be called natural, rather, they represent the end of a millennia-long history of selective breeding and hybridization. Starting his story at the birth of agriculture, Kingsbury traces the history of human attempts to make plants more reliable, productive, and nutritiousa story that owes as much to accident and error as to innovation and experiment. Drawing on historical and scientific accounts, as well as a rich trove of anecdotes, Kingsbury shows how scientists, amateur breeders, and countless anonymous farmers and gardeners slowly caused the evolutionary pressures of nature to be supplanted by those of human needs and thus led us from sparse wild grasses to succulent corn cobs, and from mealy, white wild carrots to the juicy vegetables we enjoy today. At the same time, Kingsbury reminds us that contemporary controversies over the Green Revolution and genetically modified crops are not new, plant breeding has always had a political dimension."--Publisher's description.

Wheat: Prospects for Global Improvement

Wheat: Prospects for Global Improvement
Title Wheat: Prospects for Global Improvement PDF eBook
Author H.-J. Braun
Publisher Springer
Pages 606
Release 1997-12-31
Genre Science
ISBN

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Proceedings of the 5th International Wheat Conference, 10-14 June 1996, Ankara, Turkey

Advances in Wheat Breeding

Advances in Wheat Breeding
Title Advances in Wheat Breeding PDF eBook
Author Nusret Zencirci
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 783
Release
Genre
ISBN 9819994780

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Utilizing Wild Grass Biodiversity in Wheat Improvement

Utilizing Wild Grass Biodiversity in Wheat Improvement
Title Utilizing Wild Grass Biodiversity in Wheat Improvement PDF eBook
Author A. Mujeeb-Kazi
Publisher CIMMYT
Pages 165
Release 1995
Genre Biodiversity
ISBN 968692308X

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Quantitative and Ecological Aspects of Plant Breeding

Quantitative and Ecological Aspects of Plant Breeding
Title Quantitative and Ecological Aspects of Plant Breeding PDF eBook
Author J. Hill
Publisher Springer Science & Business Media
Pages 286
Release 2012-12-06
Genre Science
ISBN 9401158304

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Latest figures suggest that approximately 20% of the world's population of six billion is malnourished because of food shortages and inadequate distrib ution systems. To make matters worse, it is estimated that some 75 billion metric tons of soil are removed annually from the land by wind and soil ero sion, much of it from agricultural land, which is thereby rendered unsuitable for agricultural purposes. Moreover, out of a total land area under cultivation 9 6 of approximately 1. 5 x 10 ha, some 12 x 10 ha of arable land are destroyed and abandoned worldwide each year because of unsustainable agricultural practices. Add to this the fact that the world population is increasing at the rate of a quarter of a million per day, and the enormity of the task ahead becomes apparent. To quote the eminent wheat breeder E. R. Sears, It seems clear that plant geneticists can look forward to an expanded role in the 21st century, particularly in relation to plant improvement. The suc cess of these efforts may go a long way towards determining whether the world's increasing billions of humans will be adequately fed. Food for an ever-increasing population will have to be produced not only from an ever-diminishing, but from what will become an ever-deteriorating land resource unless justifiable environmental concerns are taken into account.