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Broadening the Genetic Base of Grain Cereals (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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Broadening the Genetic Base of Grain Cereals (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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This book offers comprehensive coverage of important grain cereals
including their origin and distribution, crop gene pool, level of
diversity, production constraints, traits of importance for genetic
base widening, crop improvement methodologies, genome mapping,
genomics for breeding, and future strategies. The chapters,
contributed by eminent crop researchers from around the world,
provide rare insights into the crop-specific constraints and
prospects drawing from their substantial experience. As such, the
book offers an essential source of information for grain cereals
scientists, teachers, students, policy planners and developmental
experts alike. Grain cereals, which comprise rice, wheat, maize,
barley, oats, sorghum and millets, are members of the grass family.
These crops are vital to human nutrition, thanks to their roles as
staple food crops in different parts of the globe. Some of them are
rich sources of carbohydrates, which provide energy, while others
are important sources of minerals, vitamins and proteins, in
addition to their medicinal properties. In most cereals, the
existing variability among elite germplasm has been exploited to
attain a desirable level of productivity. However, to make further
breakthroughs in enhancing yield and improving stability in future
crop cultivars, new sources of genes/alleles need to be identified
in wild/weedy species and incorporated into the cultivated
varieties. Though there have been many publications on various
aspects of grain cereal improvement in the recent past, to date
this essential information has remained scattered among different
periodicals.
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