Author: Lakhwinder S Randhawa
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2002-05-17
Total Pages: 454
ISBN-13: 9781560221012
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Learn to identify, modify, and manipulate the genes controlling key quality traits in field crops! This informative book provides state-of-the-art information on improving nutritional quality as well as yield volume in field crops such as wheat, maize, rice, barley, oats, lentils, pigeon peas, soybeans, cool season legumes, and crops whose seeds are used to make oils. With contributions from leading authorities in the field, this book will bring you up to date on the uses of agronomic management, conventional plant breeding, and modern biotechnologies in improving the quality of important food, feed, and fiber products. Quality Improvement in Field Crops examines: factors that impact the end-use quality of wheat and ways to improve wheat’s quality for milling and baking agronomic practices that impact the quality of maize ways to improve the nutritional value of rice and legumes techniques for using molecular markers to improve the quality of lentil crops breeding methods that can improve the quality of the oils derived from oilseed crops protein quality/sulfur metabolism in soybeans and much more! This book is dedicated to the World Food Laureate (the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for food scientists), Dr. G. S. Khush--the father of the Green Revolution in rice farming--in recognition of his tremendous contributions to global food and nutritional security for the world?s population.
Author: University of Wisconsin--Madison. Department of Agronomy
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 448
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Gideon Ladizinsky
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-05-31
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 3642305474
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The book is based on the author's life time experience in exploring and researching the genus Avena. It describes some great events in oat research and minor stories along the way. It will be of interest and value to all those working with oats and to students and scientists of crop evolution, including those dealing with collecting and conserving wild genetic resources. A first part deals with the morphology and taxonomy of the genus and a classification based on the biological species concept is presented. A further part is devoted to the author’s research accomplishments in this genus. It describes morphological characters distinguishing between diploids and tetraploids of series Eubarbatae, the genetic relationships between them, and the mode of origin of the tetraploid form. The section Denticulatae, to which the common oat belongs, is extensively treated. Further, oat domestication and the newly domesticated protein rich A. magna are described. A third part deals with wild genetic resources of oat.
Author: Manjarabad Venkataramanaswamy Sethuramaswamy Raju
Publisher: Regina : Canadian Plains Research Center
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 212
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The wild oat was introduced to the prairies by early settlers and has spread throughout the continent, causing considerable yield reductions in cultivated crops, especially the cereals. Control measures have proven difficult. This report covers the general morphology; then details the inflorescence; the floret and its parts; the floret and embryology; the development of the embryo, the endosperm and the embryo envelopes; the morphology and structure of mature caryopsis before germination; morphology of the embryo parts; and germination.
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 712
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Sept.-Oct. issue includes list of theses and dissertations for U.S. and Canadian graduate degrees granted in crop science, soil science, and agronomic science during the previous academic year.