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Breeding plants to encourage specific traits is usual in
agriculture but less common in ornamental horticulture. Daffodils,
daylilies, hostas, lilacs, magnolias, and rhododendrons are among
the 15 subjects covered by experts in the field.
Conventional agriculture has attempted to exploit arable land by
applying chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and irrigation water.
These practices become increasingly tenuous as they exhaust our
supplies of fossil fuels, deplete aquifers and raise concerns about
the safety of food and the overall effect of agriculture on the
quality of rural life. The contributors to this volume believe that
instead of changing the environment, we can change the adaptation
of the plants that we grow in it. Genetic improvement of crop
plants for stress conditions and for less favorable environments is
a cost-effective way to develop future sustainable agricultural
systems. There area number of favorable genetic traits that can be
incorporated into crop plants, thus making them more hardy and more
productive. Eighteen noted researchers currently working in plant
breeding and related fields bring together the best thinking about
achieving crop improvement--especially the development of new
genetic combina-tions--to create a sustainable agriculture.
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