Summarizing landmark research, Volume 3 of this essential series
furnishes information on the availability of germplasm resources
that breeders can exploit for producing high-yielding vegetable
crop varieties. Written by leading international experts, this
volume offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date information on
employing genetic resources to increase the yield of those
vegetable crops that provide a main source of minerals, vitamins,
and antioxidants. In eleven succinct chapters, Genetic Resources,
Chromosome Engineering, and Crop Improvement: Vegetable Crops,
Volume 3 focuses on potato, tomato, brassicas, okra, capsicum,
alliums, cucurbits, lettuce, eggplant, and carrot. An introductory
chapter outlines the cytogenetic architecture of vegetable crops,
describes the principles and strategies of cytogenetics and
breeding, and summarizes landmarks in current research. This sets
the stage for the ensuing crop-specific chapters. Each chapter
generally provides a comprehensive account of the crop, its origin
and taxonomy, wild relatives, exploitation of genetic resources
diversity in the primary, secondary, and tertiary gene pools
through breeding and cytogenetic manipulation, and genetic
enrichment using the tools of molecular genetics and biotechnology.
Certain to become the standard reference for improving the yields
of these critical vegetable crops, this book is the definitive
source of information for plant breeders, gene-bankers,
cytogeneticists, taxonomists, molecular biologists,
biotechnologists, and graduate students, researchers, agronomists,
horticulturists, farmers and consumers in these fields.
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