Overview
- Covers almost all tropical tree plantation crops
- Serves as a reference book for all users (researchers, teachers, students)
- Many chapters include biotechnology and molecular components, more like a package breeding and appropriate molecular techniques
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Fruit and Nut Crops
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Oil Crops
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Industrial Crops
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Beverages
Reviews
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"Chapters are generally divided into several subsections, beginning with a botanical description of the crop and an overview of genetic resources available for breeding. The book highlights world production centers, crop uses, and value. … Chapters also cover breeding techniques and the current employment of biotechnological applications for crop improvement. … Each thoroughly referenced chapter provides an up-to-date review of literature that will be valuable for advanced readers. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students and above." (R. M. Warner, Choice, Vol. 46 (11), July, 2009)
"This Tropical species volume of the Breeding plantation tree crops series … aimed at providing ‘comprehensive information on a package of conventional breeding, biotechnology and molecular tools to scientists, students and even policy makers and planters’. … In conclusion, I would highly recommend this book to scientists (both breeders and plant biotechnologists), students, agronomists and … tropical farmers too! It provides an updated vision on breeding and biotechnology applied to crop species of paramount economic interest for the tropical world." (Alain Rival, Annals of Botany, Vol. 104 (6), November, 2009)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Breeding Plantation Tree Crops: Tropical Species
Editors: S. Mohan Jain, P. M. Priyadarshan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-71201-7
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-71199-7Published: 23 October 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-2432-2Published: 29 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-71201-7Published: 08 October 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 654
Number of Illustrations: 110 b/w illustrations, 59 illustrations in colour
Topics: Plant Sciences, Plant Genetics and Genomics, Agriculture