Breeding Major Food Staples

Breeding Major Food Staples
Manjit Kang, P. M. Priyadarshan
Hardcover
437 pages
October 2007
As the world’s population increases the need to produce greater quantities of major staple crops such as wheat, rice, maize, potato, cassava, soybean, sweet potato, barley, and banana in order to sufficiently feed the people of the world continues to grow. Breeding Major Food Staples covers improving yields and quality of these crops through breeding and the use of molecular biology tools such as gene transfer, genome mapping, biofortification, and bioinformatics. This book will be an important reference for anyone working in crop breeding.

Table of Contents

Foreword (G.S. Khush).

Preface (Kang & Priyadarshan).

General Topics.

Introduction: Genetic Enhancement of Polyploid Crops Using Tools of Classical Cytogenetics and Modern Biotechnology.

Chapter 1: Breeding Methodologies: Classic and Modern (Kang et al.).

Chapter 2: Biofortification (Pfeiffer & McClafferty).

Chapter 3: Bioinformatics (Edwards).

Cereals and Oil/Protein Crops.

Chapter 4: Wheat (Singh & Trethowan).

Chapter 5: Rice (Virmani & Ilyas-Ahmed).

Chapter 6: Barley (Ceccarelli et al.).

Chapter 7: Corn (Johnson).

Chapter 8: Soybean (Cianzio).

Carbohydrate Suppliers: Root Crops and Banana.

Chapter 9: Potato (Bradshaw).

Chapter 10: Sweetpotato (Tan et al.).

Chapter 11: Cassava (Ceballos et al.).

Chapter 12: Banana (Pillay & Tripathi)