Advances in Plant Breeding Strategies: Industrial and Food Crops Volume 6 /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Al-Khayri, Jameel M. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Jain, Shri Mohan (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Johnson, Dennis V. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Θέματα: Agriculture.; Plant science.; Botany.; Plant Sciences.

Plant breeders and geneticists are under constant pressure to sustain and expand food production by using innovative breeding strategies and introducing minor crops, which are well adapted to marginal lands, provide a source of nutrition, and have abiotic and biotic stress tolerance, to feed an ever...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Preface
• About the Editors
• Contributors
• Part I. Industrial Crops
• 1. Genetics and Breeding of Tropical Acacias for Forest Products: Acacia mangium, A. auriculiformis and A. crassicarpa; Arif Nirsatmanto, Sri Sunarti
• 2. Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) Breeding Strategies; Saeed Rauf et al
• 3. CRISPR/Cas9: A New Genome Editing Tool to Accelerate Cotton (Gossypium spp.) Breeding; Muhammad N. Sattar et al
• 4. Jute (Corchorus spp.) Breeding; Liwu Zhang et al
• 5. Ramie (Boehmeria nivea L. Gaud) Genetic Improvement; Pratik Satya et al
• 6. Genetic Improvement of Guayule (Parthenium argentatum A. Gray): An Alternative Rubber Crop; Hussein Abdel-Haleem et al
• 7. Biotechnological Advances in Rubber Tree (Hevea brasiliensis Muell. Arg.) Breeding; Sankaran Sobha et al
• 8. Genetics and Breeding of Jojoba [Simmondsia chinensis (Link) Schneider]; Mohamed M.A. Khairi
• 9. Flax (Linum usitatissimum L.) Genomics and Breeding; Frank M. You et al
• 10. Breeding Strategies to Improve Production of Agave (Agave spp.); Kelly M. Monja-Mio et al
• 11. Sugarcane (Saccharum spp.): Breeding and Genomics; Shriram J. Mirajkar et al
• Part II. Food Crops
• 12. Cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) Breeding; Frances Bekele, Wilbert Phillips-Mora
• 13. Oil Palm (Elaeis spp.) Breeding in Malaysia; Fadila Ahmad Malike et al
• 14. Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) Breeding; Pooran Golkar, Somayeh Karimi
• 15. Advances in Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) Breeding; Swapan K. Tripathy et al
• 16. Breeding Strategies for Sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) Genetic Improvement; Saeed Rauf
• 17. Saffron (Crocus sativus L.) Breeding: Opportunities and Challenges; Majid Shokrpour
• 18. Vanilla (Vanilla spp.) Breeding; Alan H. Chambers
• Index. .