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Plant Breeding - Principles and prospects (Hardcover, 1993 ed.) Loot Price: R8,689
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Plant Breeding - Principles and prospects (Hardcover, 1993 ed.): M.D. Hayward, N.O. Bosemark, T. Romagosa

Plant Breeding - Principles and prospects (Hardcover, 1993 ed.)

M.D. Hayward, N.O. Bosemark, T. Romagosa

Series: Plant Breeding

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Our requirement for plant breeders to be successful has never been greater. However one views the forecasted numbers for future population growth we will need, in the immediate future, to be feeding, clothing and housing many more people than we do, inadequately, at present. Plant breeding represents the most valuable strategy in increasing our productivity in a way that is sustainable and environmentally sensitive. Plant breeding can rightly be considered as one of the oldest multidisciplinary subjects that is known to humans. It was practised by people who first started to carry out a settled form of agriculture. The art, as it must have been at that stage, was applied without any formal underlying framework, but achieved dramatic results, as witnessed by the forms of cultivated plants we have today. We are now learning how to apply successfully the results of yet imperfect scientific knowledge. This knowledge is, however, rapidly developing, particularly in areas of tissue culture, biotechnology and molecular biology. Plant breeding's inherent multifaceted nature means that alongside obvious subject areas like genetics we also need to consider areas such as: statistics, physiology, plant pathology, entomology, biochemistry, weed science, quality, seed characteristics, repro ductive biology, trial design, selection and computing. It therefore seems apparent that modern plant breeders need to have a grasp of wide range of scientific knowledge and expertise if they are successfully to a exploit the techniques, protocols and strategies which are open to them.

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Imprint: Chapman and Hall
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Plant Breeding
Release date: May 1993
First published: 1993
Editors: M.D. Hayward • N.O. Bosemark • T. Romagosa
Dimensions: 254 x 178 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 550
Edition: 1993 ed.
ISBN-13: 978-0-412-43390-0
Categories: Books > Professional & Technical > Agriculture & farming > General
Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Botany & plant sciences > Plant reproduction & propagation > General
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LSN: 0-412-43390-7
Barcode: 9780412433900

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