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  • Mutation Breeding in Coffee with Special Reference to Leaf Rust

    Protocols

    Edited by Ivan L.W. Ingelbrecht, Maria do Céu Lavado da Silva, Joanna Jankowicz-Cieslak ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This open-access book provides a comprehensive overview of current methodologies for improving resistance to leaf rust in coffee, one of the world's most important cash crops and beverages. Coffea arabica L. (Arabica) accounts for about 60% of the world's coffee production. Coffee leaf rust (CLR), caused by the fungus Hemileia vastatrix is the major disease affecting Arabica coffee resulting in ... Read more

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  • Efficient Screening Techniques to Identify Mutants with TR4 Resistance in Banana

    Protocols

    Edited by Joanna Jankowicz-Cieslak, Ivan L. Ingelbrecht ...
    Bananas are a staple food for over 500 million people and are also an important cash crop. Fusarium wilt, caused by the fungus Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense, is one of the most destructive diseases of banana globally. Since the 1990s, an aggressive variant of this fungus, called Tropical Race 4 (TR4), severely affected banana plantations in Southeast Asia from where it spread to other ... Read more

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  • Pre-Field Screening Protocols for Heat-Tolerant Mutants in Rice

    by Fatma Sarsu, Abdelbagi M.A. Ghanim, Priyanka Das, Rajeev N. Bahuguna, Paul Mbogo Kusolwa, Muhammed Ashraf, Sneh L. Singla-Pareek, Ashwani Pareek, Brian P. Forster, Ivan Ingelbrecht ...
    This open access book presents simple, robust pre-field screening protocols that allow plant breeders to screen for enhanced tolerance to heat stress in rice. Two critical heat-sensitive stages in the lifecycle of the rice crop are targeted – the seedling and flowering stages – with screening based on simple phenotypic responses. The protocols are based on the use of a hydroponics system and/or ... Read more

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    Edited by Birol Akgün, Yusuf Alpaydın ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book explores the agenda of education policies in the 21st century. In the first part of the book, education is handled from a historical and political framework, and the effects of the change of states and policies on education are examined. In the second part, the effects of changes in the economy on education policies and economies’ demands from educational institutions are ... Read more

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  • From Decoding Turbulence to Unveiling the Fingerprint of Climate Change

    Klaus Hasselmann—Nobel Prize Winner in Physics 2021

    by Hans von Storch ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This open access book serves as a reference for the key elements and their significance of Klaus Hasselmann's work on climate science and on ocean wave research, all based on a rigorous and deeply physical thinking. It summarizes the original articles (mostly from the 1970 and 1980s; some of which are hard to find nowadays) and brings them in a present-day context. From 1975 until 2000, he was ... Read more

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  • Ethical Evidence and Policymaking

    Interdisciplinary and International Research

    Edited by Ron Iphofen, Dónal O’Mathúna ...
    EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.This important book offers practical advice for using evidence and research in policymaking. The book has two aims. First, it builds a case for ethics and global values in research and knowledge exchange, and second, it examines specific policy areas and how evidence can guide practice.The book covers important policy areas including ... Read more

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  • The Story of Anna & Levi Smashup

    The Story of Anna & Levi, #5

    by Dawn Marifield ...
    Series Book 5 - The Story of Anna & Levi
    Enjoy the complete series all in one place. Books included are:Prequel Part 1: LeviPrequel Part 2: AnnaThe Story of Anna & Levi Book 1The Story of Anna & Levi Book 2From the beginning to the end this story is a sweet, funny, and action packed view of family and friends that will do about anything to remain together. Find out what love can create and what some will be crazy enough to do to preserve ... Read more

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  • Wheat Improvement

    Food Security in a Changing Climate

    Edited by Matthew P. Reynolds, Hans-Joachim Braun ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This open-access textbook provides a comprehensive, up-to-date guide for students and practitioners wishing to access in a single volume the key disciplines and principles of wheat breeding. Wheat is a cornerstone of food security: it is the most widely grown of any crop and provides 20% of all human calories and protein. The authorship of this book includes world class researchers and breeders ... Read more

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  • Rice Improvement

    Physiological, Molecular Breeding and Genetic Perspectives

    Edited by Jauhar Ali, Shabir Hussain Wani ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.By 2050, human population is expected to reach 9.7 billion. The demand for increased food production needs to be met from ever reducing resources of land, water and other environmental constraints. Rice remains the staple food source for a majority of the global populations, but especially in Asia where ninety percent of rice is grown and consumed ... Read more

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  • Advances in Plant Breeding Strategies: Breeding, Biotechnology and Molecular Tools

    Edited by Jameel M. Al-Khayri, Shri Mohan Jain, Dennis V. Johnson ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The basic concept of this book is to examine the use of innovative methods augmenting traditional plant breeding towards the development of new crop varieties under different environmental conditions to achieve sustainable food production. This book consists of two volumes: Volume 1 subtitled Breeding, Biotechnology and Molecular Tools and Volume 2 subtitled Agronomic, Abiotic and Biotic Stress ... Read more

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  • Potato Production Worldwide

    Edited by Mehmet Emin Calıskan, Allah Bakhsh, Khawar Jabran ...
    Potato is a crop grown on all inhabited continents of the globe. It is included in the top five crops of the world, used as staple food in several countries, and the number of people daily consuming the potato may surpass one billion. Despite the high quantities of seed potato produced worldwide, there are yield gaps due to challenges such as abiotic stresses, pests, climate change and poor ... Read more

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  • Molecular Breeding of Forage and Turf

    The Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on the Molecular Breeding of Forage and Turf

    Edited by Hikmet Budak, German Spangenberg ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This proceeding covers all the collected research data and presentations from the 8th International Symposium on the Molecular Breeding of Forage and Turf. The book explores themes in molecular breeding of forage and turf, including abiotic and biotic stresses, bioenergy and biorenewables, comparative genomics, emerging tools for forage and turf research, functional genetics and genomics and ... Read more

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