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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2022, 2022
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2022 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 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