Breeding Major Food Staples


Full Title of Book: Breeding Major Food Staples
Author(s) / Editor(s): Manjit S. Kang, P.M. Priyadarshan.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell.
Year Published: 2007.
Edition: 1st.
DOI: 10.1002/9780470376447.
ISBN: Print 9780813818351, Online 9780470376447.
Size & Format: Hardcover, 437 pages. 1 PDF 5 Mb.

Brief Description & Contents: 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.
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