Breeding Major Food Staples

Breeding Major Food Staples

by Kang (Author), Priyadarshan (Author)

Synopsis

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.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 456
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 29 Oct 2007

ISBN 10: 0813818354
ISBN 13: 9780813818351

Media Reviews
...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
Author Bio
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