What''s New About Crop Plants - Novel Discoveries of the 21st Century

Informationen zum Autor Gupta, U. S. Klappentext Until recently, breeding efforts in mass produced food crops centered on high yield production while sacrificing flavor, taste and other quality traits. Now, more emphasis is being placed on the enhancement of nutritional and medicinal properties of the food crops. Aside from merely being considered a source of food, crops are today being looked from a health benefit perspective and even from an environmental standpoint. This volume looks at the use of crops for a myriad of purposes, including the prevention and/or mitigation of various diseases, vaccine and antigen production, biofuel production, and the suppression of weeds. Zusammenfassung This volume looks at the use of crops for a myriad of purposes, including the prevention and/or mitigation of various diseases, vaccine and antigen production, biofuel production, and the suppression of weeds. Inhaltsverzeichnis Qualitative Improvement of Crop Plants. Rice. Wheat. Barley. Oat. Rye. Maize. Sorghum. Potato. Sweet Potato. Cassava. Phaseolus. Vigna Species. Broad Bean. Chickpea. Tomato. Brassica Vegetables. Cucurbita Vegetables. Spinach. Onion. Soybean. Peanut. Oilseed Brassicas. Sunflower. Sugarcane. Cotton. Tobacco.

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• Authors: U S Gupta, U. S. Gupta, U. S. (Retired Adj Gupta, U. S. (Retired Adj Professor Gupta, U.S. Gupta, Gupta U. S., U. S. Gupta
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.02.2011
• EAN: 9781578086993
• ISBN: 978-1-57808-699-3
• No. of pages: 668
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Botany; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / General, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Botany, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Molecular Biology, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Cell Biology, molecular biology, Botany & plant sciences, Cellular biology (cytology), Botany and plant sciences