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Crop Improvement: New Approaches and Modern Techniques

By Parvaiz Ahmad , Ibrahim Ilker Ozyigit , Ilhan Dogan , Ebru Artam Tarhan (auth.) , Khalid Rehman Hakeem , Munir Ozturk (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer US
Year
2013
ISBN
978-1-4614-7027-4, 978-1-4614-7028-1
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4614-7028-1
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7007202 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
494\503
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-08-01 04:00:00
Plant Breeding/Biotechnology; Plant Genetics & Gen

Description

The improvement of crop species has been a basic pursuit since cultivation began thousands of years ago. To feed an ever increasing world population will require a great increase in food production. Wheat, corn, rice, potato and few others are expected to lead as the most important crops in the world. Enormous efforts are made all over the world to document as well as use these resources. Everybody knows that the introgression of genes in wheat provided the foundation for the “Green Revolution”. Later also demonstrated the great impact that genetic resources have on production. Several factors are contributing to high plant performance under different environmental conditions, therefore an effective and complementary use of all available technological tools and resources is needed to meet the challenge.

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