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Plant Breeding for Abiotic Stress Tolerance (Paperback, 2012 ed.)
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Plant Breeding for Abiotic Stress Tolerance (Paperback, 2012 ed.)
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The rapid population growth and the increase in the per capita
income, especially in the group of emerging countries referred to
as BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa)
has created huge pressure for the expansion of the agricultural
growing area and the crop yields to meet the rising demand. As a
result, many areas that have been considered marginal for growing
crops, due to their low fertility, drought, salinity, and many
other abiotic stresses, have now been incorporated in the
production system. Additionally, climate change has brought new
challenges to agriculture to produce food, feed, fiber and
biofuels. To cope with these new challenges, many plant breeding
programs have reoriented their breeding scope to stress tolerance
in the last years. The authors of this book have collected the most
recent advances and discoveries applied to breeding for abiotic
stresses in this book, starting with new physiological concepts and
breeding methods, and moving on to discuss modern molecular
biological approaches geared to the development of improved
cultivars tolerant to most sorts of abiotic stress. Written in an
easy to understand style, this book is an excellent reference work
for students, scientists and farmers interested in learning how to
breed for abiotic stresses scenarios, presenting the
state-of-the-art in plant stresses and allowing the reader to
develop a greater understanding of the basic mechanisms of
tolerance to abiotic stresses and how to breed for them.
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