Advances in plant breeding strategies Cereals. Volume 5 /
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...
| Other Authors: | Al-Khayri, Jameel M.,, Jain, S. Mohan,, Johnson, Dennis Victor, 1937-, SpringerLink (Online service) |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cham :
Springer,
[2019]
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource : illustrations (some color) |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- About the Editors
- Contributors
- 1. Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) Breeding; Essam Fathy El-Hashash, Karima Mohamed El-Absy
- 2. Fonio (Digitaria spp.) Breeding; Suleiman Dangana Abdul, Afam I.O. Jideani
- 3. Finger Millet (Eleusine coracana L. Gartn.) Breeding; Neelofar Mirza, Soma S. Marla
- 4. Foxtail Millet (Setaria italica L.): Potential of Smaller Millet for Future Breeding; Mangesh Pradip Moharil et al
- 5. Breeding of Pearl Millet (Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.); Ashita Bisht et al
- 6. Proso Millet (Panicum miliaceum L.) Breeding: Progress, Challenges and Opportunities; Dipak K. Santra et al
- 7. Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) Breeding; Luz Rayda Gomez-Pando et al
- 8. Molecular Breeding Strategies for Genetic Improvement in Rice (Oryza sativa L.); Ritu Mahajan, Nisha Kapoor
- 9. Hybrid Breeding in Rye (Secale cereale L.); Thomas Miedaner, Friedrich Laidig
- 10. Tef [Eragrostis tef (Zucc.) Trotter] Breeding; Solomon Chanyalew et al
- 11. Triticale (X Triticosecale Wittmack) Breeding; Mohamed Mergoum et al
- 12. CRISPR/Cas9 Genome Editing in Bread Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) Genetic Improvement; Soleyman Dayani et al
- 13. Durum Wheat (Triticum turgidum ssp. durum) Breeding to Meet the Challenge of Climate Change; Pasquale De Vita, Francesca Taranto
- 14. Spelt Wheat [Triticum aestivum ssp. spelta (L.) Thell.] Breeding via In Vitro Androgenesis for Special Food Quality Parameters; János Pauk et al
- 15. Recent Advances in Wheat (Triticum spp.) Breeding; Amira M.I. Mourad et al
- Index.