Wheat Improvement Food Security in a Changing Climate /

Wheat Improvement Food Security in a Changing Climate /

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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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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Reynolds, Matthew P. (Editor), Braun, Hans-Joachim (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2022.
Edition:1st ed. 2022.
Subjects:
Agricultural genome mapping.
Agriculture.
Food science.
Medicine > Research.
Biology > Research.
Agricultural Genetics.
Food Science.
Translational Research.
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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.

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