Wheat Improvement : Food Security in a Changing Climate

Wheat Improvement Food Security in a Changing Climate

This open-access textbook provides a comprehensive, up-to-date guide for students and practitioners wishing to access in a single volume the key disciplines and principles of wheat breeding. Wheat is a cornerstone of food security: it is the most widely grown of any crop and provides 20% of all huma...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Reynolds, Matthew P. (Editor), Reynolds, Matthew P. editor (editor), Braun, Hans-Joachim. editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham Springer Nature 2022
Cham : 2022.
Edición:1st ed. 2022.
Materias:
Agricultural genome mapping.
Agriculture.
Food science.
Medicine—Research.
Biology—Research.
Agricultural Genetics.
Food Science.
Translational Research.
Blat
Genètica vegetal
Millorament selectiu de plantes
crop breeding
breeding technologies
genetic gains
crop yield potential
wheat pathology
global economics of wheat
agriculture public-private parternship
Llibres electrònics
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009666924906719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • History of Wheat Breeding: A Personal View
  • Defining Target Wheat Breeding Environments
  • Global Trends in Wheat Production, Consumption and Trade
  • Breeding Methods: Line Development
  • Breeding Methods: Population Improvement and Selection Methods
  • Achieving Genetic Gains in Practice
  • Wheat Rusts: Current Status, Prospects of Genetic Control and Integrated Approaches to Enhance Resistance Durability
  • Globally Important Non-Rust Diseases of Wheat
  • Abiotic Stresses
  • Wheat Quality
  • Nutritionally Enhanced Wheat for Food and Nutrition Security
  • Experimental Design for Plant Improvement
  • Seed Systems to Support Rapid Adoption of Improved Varieties in Wheat
  • Crop Management for Breeding Trials
  • A Century of Cytogenetic and Genome Analysis: Impact on Wheat Crop Improvement
  • Conserving Wheat Genetic Resources
  • Exploring Untapped Wheat Genetic Resources to Boost Food Security
  • Disease Resistance
  • Insect Resistance
  • Yield Potential
  • Heat and Climate Change Mitigation
  • Drought
  • Micronutrient Toxicity and Deficiency
  • Pre-breeding Strategies
  • Translational Research Networks
  • High Throughput Field Phenotyping
  • Sequence-based marker assisted selection in wheat
  • Application of CRISPR-Cas-based Genome Editing for Precision Breeding in Wheat
  • Accelerating Breeding Cycles
  • Improving Wheat Production and Breeding Strategies Using Crop Models
  • Theory and Practice of Phenotypic and Genomic Selection Indices.

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