Achieving Sustainable Cultivation of Wheat Volume 1 - Breeding, Quality Traits, Pests and Diseases

This book reviews advances in breeding techniques as well as their application to produce drought-resistant and other improved varieties. It also discusses wheat nutritional quality. Finally it reviews developments such as disease-resistant varieties and other techniques to combat pests and diseases.

About the author

Dr Peter Langridge is Emeritus Professor of Plant Science at the University of Adelaide and former CEO of the Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics (ACPFC). Professor Langridge is also Chair of the Scientific Board of the Wheat Initiative set up to coordinate international research in wheat.

Summary

This book reviews advances in breeding techniques as well as their application to produce drought-resistant and other improved varieties. It also discusses wheat nutritional quality. Finally it reviews developments such as disease-resistant varieties and other techniques to combat pests and diseases.

Product details

• Authors: Paula Bramel, Simon Griffiths, Greg Rebetzke
• Assisted by: Peter Langridge (Editor), Prof. Peter Langridge (Editor)
• Publisher: Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2017
• EAN: 9781786760166
• ISBN: 978-1-78676-016-6
• No. of pages: 688
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 41 mm
• Weight: 1131 g
• Series: Burleigh Dodds Series in Agric; Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science; Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Miscellaneous