Author: Mohar Singh
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 8132236130
Size: 62.94 MB
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Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 275
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This book offers comprehensive coverage of important grain cereals including their origin and distribution, crop gene pool, level of diversity, production constraints, traits of importance for genetic base widening, crop improvement methodologies, genome mapping, genomics for breeding, and future strategies. The chapters, contributed by eminent crop researchers from around the world, provide rare insights into the crop-specific constraints and prospects drawing from their substantial experience. As such, the book offers an essential source of information for grain cereals scientists, teachers, students, policy planners and developmental experts alike. Grain cereals, which comprise rice, wheat, maize, barley, oats, sorghum and millets, are members of the grass family. These crops are vital to human nutrition, thanks to their roles as staple food crops in different parts of the globe. Some of them are rich sources of carbohydrates, which provide energy, while others are important sources of minerals, vitamins and proteins, in addition to their medicinal properties. In most cereals, the existing variability among elite germplasm has been exploited to attain a desirable level of productivity. However, to make further breakthroughs in enhancing yield and improving stability in future crop cultivars, new sources of genes/alleles need to be identified in wild/weedy species and incorporated into the cultivated varieties. Though there have been many publications on various aspects of grain cereal improvement in the recent past, to date this essential information has remained scattered among different periodicals.
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Author: S. Kumar
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 47.30 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 269
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Contributed seminar papers presented at National Symposium on "Plant Science Research in India: Challenges and Prospects" held during 24-26th October 2005 by Botanical Survey of India, Northern Circle, Dehradun.
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Size: 18.90 MB
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Category : Environmental law
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: H. Ade Freeman
Publisher:
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Size: 24.90 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : Agricultural innovations
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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Author: Niko Huttunen
Publisher: Nova Science Pub Incorporated
ISBN:
Size: 60.72 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 343
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Plant breeding is the art and science of changing the genetics of plants for the benefit of humankind. A major goal of plant breeders is to select genotypes with stable and high performing phenotypes across environments. However, a selected genotype often performs differently across environments. This book presents a comprehensive review of various stability analysis methods and their application in plant breeding for selection of stable and high performing genotypes. Additionally, efficient methods to produce doubled haploid plants and to provide embryogenic suitable haploid cells systems are needed for future genetic manipulations and breeding in bread and durum wheat. This book describes a new stress in durum wheat, for its effectiveness to induce embryogenesis and regeneration plants. Along with its implications for plant selection, the methods used for dose-response variation are also explored, as well as the relationship between genetic variation and changes in dose-response behaviour. Other chapters in this book discuss the breeding strategy of self-incompatibility, an evolutionary force to preserve genetic variability in plants, the pros and cons of marker-assisted selection (MAS) breeding along with its future prospects, and the use of Joint Regression Analysis (JRA) in the management of plant breeding programs.
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Size: 79.87 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Category : Agricultural conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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