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Wheat Improvement: Food Security in a Changing Climate

Wheat Improvement: Food Security in a Changing Climate

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Technology & EngineeringAgricultureGenetics

ISBN10: 3030906752
ISBN13: 9783030906757
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Jun 4 2022
Pages: 629
Weight: 2.09
Height: 1.38 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Introduction.- History of Wheat Breeding: A Personal View.- Defining Target Wheat Breeding Environments.- Global Trends in Wheat Production, Consumption and Trade.- Breeding Methods: Line Development.- Breeding Methods: Population Improvement and Selection Methods.- Achieving Genetic Gains in Practice.- Wheat Rusts: Current Status, Prospects of Genetic Control and Integrated Approaches to Enhance Resistance Durability.- Globally Important Non-Rust Diseases of Wheat.- Abiotic Stresses.- Wheat Quality.- Nutritionally Enhanced Wheat for Food and Nutrition Security.- Experimental Design for Plant Improvement.- Seed Systems to Support Rapid Adoption of Improved Varieties in Wheat.- Crop Management for Breeding Trials.- A Century of Cytogenetic and Genome Analysis: Impact on Wheat Crop Improvement.- Conserving Wheat Genetic Resources.- Exploring Untapped Wheat Genetic Resources to Boost Food Security.- Disease Resistance.- Insect Resistance.- Yield Potential.- Heat and Climate Change Mitigation.- Drought.- Micronutrient Toxicity and Deficiency.- Pre-breeding Strategies.- Translational Research Networks.- High Throughput Field Phenotyping.- Sequence-based marker assisted selection in wheat.- Application of CRISPR-Cas-based Genome Editing for Precision Breeding in Wheat.- Accelerating Breeding Cycles.- Improving Wheat Production and Breeding Strategies Using Crop Models.- Theory and Practice of Phenotypic and Genomic Selection Indices.

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