Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
Breeding Major Food Staples
Manjit Kang
€ 270.13
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Breeding Major Food Staples
Hardcover. Food production and population growth are inextricably linked. Remarkable progress in production and productivity of major food staples has been achieved, and the addition of valuable new technologies such as bioinformatics and biofortification are important to continue to produce nutrient-filled crops for the growing world population. Num Pages: 438 pages, 160 illustrations. BIC Classification: TVK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 264 x 186 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1200.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Iowa State University Press United States
Number of pages
438
Condition
New
Number of Pages
456
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780813818351
SKU
V9780813818351
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Manjit Kang
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
Reviews for Breeding Major Food Staples
“…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