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“ivan ingelbrecht”

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Cotton

    Biotechnological Advances

    Edited by Usha Barwale Zehr ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The food, feed, ?ber, and fuel needs of the changing world pose the challenge of doubling or tripling of world food, feed, and ?ber production by the year 2050 to meet the needs of a 11 billion global population. In addition, the dramatic changes in food prices in the recent years further warrant that production and productivity need to be enhanced to ensure adequate supplies. Biotechnology can ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • The Catharanthus Genome

    Edited by Chittaranjan Kole ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book is the first comprehensive compilation of deliberations on botany, medicinal importance, genetic diversity, classical genetics and breeding, in vitro biosynthesis, somatic embryogenesis, genetic transformation, molecular mapping, genome sequence, and functional genomics of Catharanthus roseus. Catharanthus is the most important medicinal plant in the world that contains about 130 ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • 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

    $260.99 USD

  • Biotechnology to Enhance Sugarcane Productivity and Stress Tolerance

    Edited by Kalpana Sengar ...
    Sugarcane is the most important plant source for sugar and alcohol production and is cultivated in more than 80 countries in tropical and subtropical areas. However, environmental factors negatively influence its yield and jeopardize the prospect to meet the increasing demand for sugar, other sugarcane derived by products and bioethanol. The development of stress tolerant plants is fundamental for ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • 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

    $224.99 USD

  • Genomic Designing for Biotic Stress Resistant Cereal Crops

    Edited by Chittaranjan Kole ...
    This book presents deliberations on molecular and genomic mechanisms underlying the interactions of crop plants to the biotic stresses caused by different diseases and pests that are important to develop resistant crop varieties. Knowledge on the advanced genetic and genomic crop improvement strategies including molecular breeding, transgenics, genomic-assisted breeding, and the recently emerging ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • Genetic Methods and Tools for Managing Crop Pests

    Edited by A. K. Chakravarthy ...
    This contributed volume aims at bringing together all the genetic engineering tools for managing various types of crop pests. The main focus of this book is to explore the application of these tools in pest management. Major pest groups covered in this book are insects, mites and nematodes.The first section covers all major genetic tools and molecular approaches. The second section deals with ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Plant, Soil and Microbes in Tropical Ecosystems

    Edited by Suresh Kumar Dubey, Satish Kumar Verma ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book describes the multitude of interactions between plant, soil, and micro-organisms. It emphasizes on how growth and development in plants, starting from seed germination, is heavily influenced by the soil type. It describes the interactions established by plants with soil and inhabitant microbial community. The chapters describe how plants selectively promote certain microorganisms in the ... Read more

    $170.99 USD