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Breeding Major Food Staples

ISBN: 978-0-470-37635-5

February 2008

Wiley-Blackwell

456 pages

Description
As the world’s population increases the need to produce greater quantities of major staple crops such as wheat, rice, maize, potato, cassava, soybean, sweet potato, barley, and banana in order to sufficiently feed the people of the world continues to grow. Breeding Major Food Staples covers improving yields and quality of these crops through breeding and the use of molecular biology tools such as gene transfer, genome mapping, biofortification, and bioinformatics. This book will be an important reference for anyone working in crop breeding.
About the Author
Manjit Kang is a former Professor of Quantitative Genetics at Louisiana State University and current Vice Chancellor of Punjab Agricultural University


P. M. Priyadarshan is a Plant Breeder at the Rubber Research Institute of India

Features

  • Chapters on breeding of all major food staples
  • New and renowned methodologies for breeding
  • A separate chapter on bioinformatics
  • International field of academics and scientists contributing chapters