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Breeding Major Food Staples
Edited by Manjit Kang P. M. Priyadarshan
Blackwell
October 2007
Hardback 456 pp ISBN 9780813818351
£87.00
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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.
Contents
Foreword (G.S. Khush)
Preface (Kang & Priyadarshan)
I. General Topics
Introduction: Genetic Enhancement of Polyploid Crops Using Tools of Classical Cytogenetics and Modern
Biotechnology
Chapter 1: Breeding Methodologies: Classic and Modern (Kang et al.)
Chapter 2: Biofortification (Pfeiffer & McClafferty)
Chapter 3: Bioinformatics (Edwards)
II. Cereals and Oil/Protein Crops
Chapter 4: Wheat (Singh & Trethowan)
Chapter 5: Rice (Virmani & Ilyas-Ahmed)
Chapter 6: Barley (Ceccarelli et al.)
Chapter 7: Corn (Johnson)
Chapter 8: Soybean (Cianzio)
III. Carbohydrate Suppliers: Root Crops and Banana
Chapter 9: Potato (Bradshaw)
Chapter 10: Sweetpotato (Tan et al.)
Chapter 11: Cassava (Ceballos et al.)
Chapter 12: Banana (Pillay & Tripathi)
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