Breeding Major Food Staples
Manjit Kang author P M Priyadarshan author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Published:18th Oct '07
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
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