Organic Crop Breeding
Lammerts Van Bueren
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Description for Organic Crop Breeding
Hardcover. Organic Crop Breeding provides readers with a thorough review of the latest efforts by crop breeders and geneticists to develop improved varieties for organic production. Editor(s): Lammerts van Bueren, Edith T.; Myers, James R. Num Pages: 308 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: TVG; TVK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 252 x 172 x 19. Weight in Grams: 766.
Organic Crop Breeding provides readers with a thorough review of the latest efforts by crop breeders and geneticists to develop improved varieties for organic production. The book opens with chapters looking at breeding efforts that focus on specific valuable traits such as quality, pest and disease resistance as well as the impacts improved breeding efforts can have on organic production. The second part of the book is a series of crop specific case studies that look at breeding efforts currently underway from around the world in crops ranging from carrots to corn. Organic Crop Breeding includes chapters from leading researchers ... Read more
Organic Crop Breeding provides readers with a thorough review of the latest efforts by crop breeders and geneticists to develop improved varieties for organic production. The book opens with chapters looking at breeding efforts that focus on specific valuable traits such as quality, pest and disease resistance as well as the impacts improved breeding efforts can have on organic production. The second part of the book is a series of crop specific case studies that look at breeding efforts currently underway from around the world in crops ranging from carrots to corn. Organic Crop Breeding includes chapters from leading researchers ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780470958582
SKU
V9780470958582
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Lammerts Van Bueren
Edith T. Lammerts van Bueren holds an endowed chair at Wageningen University as Professor of Organic Plant Breeding and senior researcher Organic Plant Breeding at the Louis Bolk Institute in the Netherlands. James R. Myers is the Baggett-Frazier Professor of Vegetable Breeding and Genetics in the Department of Horticulture at Oregon State University.
Reviews for Organic Crop Breeding
“The editors have done an excellent job in putting together a well-organized and informative book, which covers theory, practice, issues and the latest research.” (Experimental Agriculture, 4 October 2012)