Root and tuber crops
It is important to include "Tuber and Root Crops" in the "Handbook of Plant Breeding". They include starchy staple crops that are of increasing importance for global food security and relief of poverty, important millennium goals for the United Nations. Indeed, 2008 was the UN In...
| Other Authors: | Bradshaw, J. E., SpringerLink (Online service) |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York ; London :
Springer,
2010.
New York ; London : 2010. |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource. |
| Series: |
Handbook of plant breeding ;
v. 7. |
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| Summary: |
It is important to include "Tuber and Root Crops" in the "Handbook of Plant Breeding". They include starchy staple crops that are of increasing importance for global food security and relief of poverty, important millennium goals for the United Nations. Indeed, 2008 was the UN International Year of the Potato in recognition of this role of the potato as the world's third most important food crop after wheat and rice. The other major staples are cassava, sweet potato and yam. Together they occupy about 50 million hectares, with production at 640 million metric tons, of which. |
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| Item Description: |
Preface; Contents; Contributors; 1 Potatoes; 2 Cassava; 3 Sweet Potato; 4 Yams; 5 Taro and Cocoyam; 6 Sugar Beet; 7 Fodder Beet; 8 Swedes and Turnips; Index. It is important to include "Tuber and Root Crops" in the "Handbook of Plant Breeding". They include starchy staple crops that are of increasing importance for global food security and relief of poverty, important millennium goals for the United Nations. Indeed, 2008 was the UN International Year of the Potato in recognition of this role of the potato as the world's third most important food crop after wheat and rice. The other major staples are cassava, sweet potato and yam. Together they occupy about 50 million hectares, with production at 640 million metric tons, of which. Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780387927657 0387927654 0387927646 9780387927640 1282979426 9781282979420 |