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Contents, About the Editor,, Contributors,, Foreword,, Preface,, Part I: Introduction--Vision,, Chapter 1. Crop Breeding in the Twenty-First Century,, Introduction,, Present Status,, Summary and Predictions,, Part II: Crop Improvement,, Chapter 2. Rice Improvement: Past, Present, and Future,, Introduction,, Post-Green Revolution Varieties,, Impact of Modern Varieties,, Future Challenges,, Conclusions,, Chapter 3. Tropical Maize: Innovative Approaches for Sustainable Productivity and Production Increases,, Introduction,, Tropical Maize-Growing Environments,, Challenges of Maize Improvement for the Tropics,, New Approaches and Research That Combine Conventional Breeding and Molecular and Biotechnological Tools,, Moving the Benefits of Maize Genetic Improvement to Farmers,, Conclusions: Tropical Maize Improvement Needs,, Chapter 4. Maize Improvement for Resistance to Aflatoxins: Progress and Challenges,, Introduction,, Contamination Process,, Reducing Aflatoxin Contamination in Maize,, Interrupting/Reducing Toxin Production Ability of the Fungus,, Concluding Remarks,, Chapter 5. Sorghum Improvement: Past Achievements and Future Prospects,, Introduction,, Sorghum Production, Production Areas, and Importance in the Global Food Systems,, Evolutionary Genetics and Germplasm Diversity in Sorghum,, History of Sorghum Improvement,, Breeding Tools,, Breeding Objectives and Achievements,, Current Progress in Biotechnology for Sorghum Improvement,, Challenges and Future Prospects,,
