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Breeding Major Food Staples

Manjit Kang author P M Priyadarshan author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Published:18th Oct '07

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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.

“…comprised of informed and informative essays…offering state-of-the-art technical information…An impressive body of scholarship… should be considered a fundamental cornerstone acquisition for all…reference collections.”
Midwest Book Review

ISBN: 9780813818351

Dimensions: 264mm x 187mm x 28mm

Weight: 1207g

456 pages