Cotton
Usha Barwale . Ed(S): Zehr
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Description for Cotton
Paperback. Cotton explores the use of biotechnology in cotton - the leading plant fiber crop worldwide. Renowned experts highlight the success of Bt cotton, the introduction of second and third generation traits and the impact at varying levels on the farming industry. Editor(s): Zehr, Usha Barwale. Series: Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry. Num Pages: 245 pages, 17 black & white illustrations, 13 colour illustrations, 28 black & white tables, biograp. BIC Classification: PSTL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 409.
The food, feed, ?ber, and fuel needs of the changing world pose the challenge of doubling or tripling of world food, feed, and ?ber production by the year 2050 to meet the needs of a 11 billion global population. In addition, the dramatic changes in food prices in the recent years further warrant that production and productivity need to be enhanced to ensure adequate supplies. Biotechnology can make a signi?cant contribution to this effort as demonstrated by cotton and other crops; the new advances in biotechnology have made it possible to develop plants that contain genes that were not possible ... Read more
The food, feed, ?ber, and fuel needs of the changing world pose the challenge of doubling or tripling of world food, feed, and ?ber production by the year 2050 to meet the needs of a 11 billion global population. In addition, the dramatic changes in food prices in the recent years further warrant that production and productivity need to be enhanced to ensure adequate supplies. Biotechnology can make a signi?cant contribution to this effort as demonstrated by cotton and other crops; the new advances in biotechnology have made it possible to develop plants that contain genes that were not possible ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
245
Condition
New
Series
Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry
Number of Pages
245
Place of Publication
Berlin, Germany
ISBN
9783642262265
SKU
V9783642262265
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
Reviews for Cotton
From the reviews: “The well-chosen panel of internationally renowned authors give us chapters on cotton’s history, breeding systems, genomics, transformation, breeding for fibre and yield enhancement, nematode resistance, the use of single and multiple action abiotic stress genes from antioxidants to ubiquitins and explanations of DNA markers, QTL mapping, genome wide introgression, etc, with excellent and up-to-date references. … ... Read more