Overview
- A comprehensive reference on major vegetable crops
- The only complete resource for plant breeders that includes the most recent molecular techniques being used across species
Part of the book series: Handbook of Plant Breeding (HBPB, volume 1)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Family Asteraceae (=Compositae)
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Family Brassicaceae (=Cruciferae)
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Family Chenopodiaceae
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Family Cucurbitaceae
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Reviews
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"This book offers a systematic treatment of important information for breeders and others who work with vegetable crops. Prohens and Nuez … have compiled a collection of high-quality review articles for each crop by well-respected authorities. … Chapters include extensive, authoritative references. … it is geared toward readers interested in specific crop applications. … It is a timely volume for this rapidly moving field as 21st century genetics and genomic applications are applied to plant breeding. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals." (R. Grumet, CHOICE, Vol. 45 (10), June, 2008)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Vegetables I
Book Subtitle: Asteraceae, Brassicaceae, Chenopodicaceae, and Cucurbitaceae
Editors: Jaime Prohens, Fernando Nuez
Series Title: Handbook of Plant Breeding
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30443-4
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-72291-7Published: 18 December 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-2474-2Published: 10 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-30443-4Published: 06 December 2007
Series ISSN: 2363-8478
Series E-ISSN: 2363-8486
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 428
Number of Illustrations: 67 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: Plant Genetics and Genomics, Plant Sciences, Agriculture