This book contains 42 chapters focusing on the various aspects of the utilization and conservation of crop wild relative (CWR) and landrace (LR) diversity as a basis for crop improvement and future food security. Information on the various characterization techniques, conservati…
This book contains 42 chapters focusing on the various aspects of the utilization and conservation of crop wild relative (CWR) and landrace (LR) diversity as a basis for crop improvement and future food security. Information on the various characterization techniques, conservati…
"Maintaining food security in the face of human population increase and climate change is one of the critical challenges facing us in the 21st century. Utilization of the full range of agrobiodiversity will be a necessary tool in addressing this challenge. In this book, a team o…
This book contains 42 chapters focusing on the various aspects of the utilization and conservation of crop wild relative (CWR) and landrace (LR) diversity as a basis for crop improvement and future food security. Information on the various characterization techniques, conservati…
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- 1: Interspecific Hybridization for Upland Cotton Improvement -- Abstract -- The Cotton Crop -- Origin and Taxonomy of Gossypium hirsutum -- Domestication and "Upland" Cotton -- Cotton Improvem…
Polyploidy and hybridizaton for crop improvement
Polyploidy and hybridization for crop improvement
Polyploidy and hybridisation are critical processes in plant evolution and speciation. Many current agricultural crops are either natural or agricultural hybrids or polyploids, including potato, sugarcane, wheat, strawberries, and banana. There is a great deal of potential to …
Polyploidy and hybridization for crop improvement
Polyploidy and hybridisation are critical processes in plant evolution and speciation. Many current agricultural crops are either natural or agricultural hybrids or polyploids, including potato, sugarcane, wheat, strawberries, and banana. There is a great deal of potential to …
Polyploidy and hybridizaton for crop improvement
Many of our current agricultural crops are natural or agricultural hybrids (between two or more species), or polyploids (containing more than one genome or set of chromosomes). These include potato, oats, cotton, oilseed rape, wheat, strawberries, kiwifruit, banana, seedless wat…
This book reports on the productivity impacts of varietal improvement research conducted at a number of international centres affiliated with the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research. Such centres have been at the forefront of a 40-year effort to breed new v…
This volume reports the findings of a study of the productivity impacts of varietal improvements research conducted at a number of international centres affiliated with the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research.