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Gain a better understanding of the genetic and physiological bases
of stress response and stress tolerance as part of crop improvement
programs Abiotic Stresses: Plant Resistance Through Breeding and
Molecular Approaches explores innovative methods for breeding new
varieties of major crops with resistance to environmental stresses
that limit crop production worldwide. Experts provide you with
basic principles and techniques of plant breeding as well as work
done in relation to improving resistance in specific important
world food crops. This book supplies extensive bibliographies at
the end of each chapter, as well as tables and figures that
illustrate the research findings. Abiotic Stresses is divided into
two sections. In the first section, you will find: the general
principles of breeding crops for stress resistance genetic
engineering and molecular biology procedures for crop improvement
for stress environments data on genome mapping and its implications
for improving stress resistance in plants information about
breeding for resistance/tolerance to salinity, drought, flooding,
metals, low nutrient availability, high/low temperatures The second
section of this timely resource focuses on the efforts of
acknowledged specialists who concentrated their efforts on
important individual crops, such as: wheat barley rice maize
oilseed crops cotton tomato This book fills a niche and interface
in the available literature as it deals with all of the major
stresses from a perspective of crop breeding, covering the latest
advances in molecular breeding technology. Abiotic Stresses will
help scientists and academics in botany, plant breeding, plant
environmental stress studies, agriculture, and horticulture modify
and improve breeding programs globally.
Gain a better understanding of the genetic and physiological bases
of stress response and stress tolerance as part of crop improvement
programs Abiotic Stresses: Plant Resistance Through Breeding and
Molecular Approaches explores innovative methods for breeding new
varieties of major crops with resistance to environmental stresses
that limit crop production worldwide. Experts provide you with
basic principles and techniques of plant breeding as well as work
done in relation to improving resistance in specific important
world food crops. This book supplies extensive bibliographies at
the end of each chapter, as well as tables and figures that
illustrate the research findings. Abiotic Stresses is divided into
two sections. In the first section, you will find: the general
principles of breeding crops for stress resistance genetic
engineering and molecular biology procedures for crop improvement
for stress environments data on genome mapping and its implications
for improving stress resistance in plants information about
breeding for resistance/tolerance to salinity, drought, flooding,
metals, low nutrient availability, high/low temperatures The second
section of this timely resource focuses on the efforts of
acknowledged specialists who concentrated their efforts on
important individual crops, such as: wheat barley rice maize
oilseed crops cotton tomato This book fills a niche and interface
in the available literature as it deals with all of the major
stresses from a perspective of crop breeding, covering the latest
advances in molecular breeding technology. Abiotic Stresses will
help scientists and academics in botany, plant breeding, plant
environmental stress studies, agriculture, and horticulture modify
and improve breeding programs globally.
Philip Harris I'm Still Writing: A Man of Diverse Interests
Many of the poems in this anthology are in response to the
countryside of Derbyshire and its history. Others arise from
experiences in 'lived life', events which were life-enhancing or
illuminating. The long narrative poem which completes the volume
started out as an anti-nuclear allegory and retains some of those
atributes still - that is before the demands of the story took
priority.
Trever and the Phoenix is about a young boy that is home alone for
the summer. He finds an adventure in an unexpected place, while
making a new friend with a magical Phoenix. This book is fun and
educational for children that teaches them to be responsible.
Humiliated and abused as a child, her only friend her father, her
only benefit her education - which enabled Ambrosia to excape to a
comparatively normal life as wife and mother and to earn a living
working as a research scholar on the Web. But jealousy and hate
will not leave her alone and the footsteps which have been stalking
her alll her life, finally close in. They lead to madness and
murder.
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