Cereal Genomics
. Ed(S): Gupta, Pushpendra Kumar; Varshney, Rajeev
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Paperback. Editor(s): Gupta, Pushpendra Kumar; Varshney, Rajeev. Num Pages: 647 pages, biography. BIC Classification: TCBG; TVKC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 33. Weight in Grams: 895.
Cereals make an important component of daily diet of a major section of human population, so that their survival mainly depends on the cereal grain production, which should match the burgeoning human population. Due to painstaking efforts of plant breeders and geneticists, at the global level, cereal production in the past witnessed a steady growth. However, the cereal production in the past has been achieved through the use of high yielding varieties, which have a heavy demand of inputs in the form of chemical fertilizers, herbicides and insecticides/pesticides, leading to environmental degradation. In view of this, while increasing cereal production, ... Read more
Cereals make an important component of daily diet of a major section of human population, so that their survival mainly depends on the cereal grain production, which should match the burgeoning human population. Due to painstaking efforts of plant breeders and geneticists, at the global level, cereal production in the past witnessed a steady growth. However, the cereal production in the past has been achieved through the use of high yielding varieties, which have a heavy demand of inputs in the form of chemical fertilizers, herbicides and insecticides/pesticides, leading to environmental degradation. In view of this, while increasing cereal production, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
647
Condition
New
Number of Pages
639
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789048166466
SKU
V9789048166466
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About . Ed(S): Gupta, Pushpendra Kumar; Varshney, Rajeev
This book is the first of its kind, where twenty chapters written by experts of international repute, cover all aspects of cereal genomics research. In recent years genomics has become a thrust area of research in life sciences, and cereals, being the most important group of crops, their genomes have been subjected to intensive/extensive analyses. The knowledge and the products ... Read more
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