Breeding Major Food Staples Manjit Kang P M Priyadarshan by Manjit Kang, P. M. Priyadarshan 9780470376447, 9780813818351, 0470376449, 0813818354 instant download after payment.

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.Content:
Chapter 1 Crop Breeding Methodologies: Classic and Modern (pages 38–40): Manjit S. Kang, Prasanta K. Subudhi, Niranjan Baisakh and P. M. Priyadarshan
Chapter 2 Genetic Enhancement of Polyploid Crops Using Tools of Classical Cytogenetics and Modern Biotechnology (pages 41–60): Prem P. Jauhar
Chapter 3 Biofortification: Breeding Micronutrient?Dense Crops (pages 61–91): Wolfgang H. Pfeiffer and Bonnie McClafferty
Chapter 4 Bioinformatics and Plant Genomics for Staple Crops Improvement (pages 93–106): David Edwards
Chapter 5 Breeding Spring Bread Wheat for Irrigated and Rainfed Production Systems of the Developing World (pages 107–140): Ravi P. Singh and Richard Trethowan
Chapter 6 Rice Breeding for Sustainable Production (pages 141–191): Sant S. Virmani and M. Ilyas? Ahmed
Chapter 7 Barley Breeding for Sustainable Production (pages 193–225): Salvatore Ceccarelli, Stefania Grando, Flavio Capettini and Michael Baum
Chapter 8 Corn Breeding in the Twenty?First Century (pages 227–244): G. Richard Johnson
Chapter 9 Soybean Breeding Achievements and Challenges (pages 245–273): Silvia R. Cianzio
Chapter 10 Breeding Potato as a Major Staple Crop (pages 277–332): John E. Bradshaw
Chapter 11 Breeding of Sweetpotato (pages 333–363): S.L. Tan, M. Nakatani and K. Komaki
Chapter 12 Cassava Genetic Improvement (pages 365–391): Hernan Ceballos, Martin Fregene, Juan Perez Carlos, Nelson Morante and Fernando Calle
Chapter 13 Banana Breeding (pages 393–428): Michael Pillay and Leena Tripathi