Author: G. J. Persley
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 1999-01-01
Total Pages: 76
ISBN-13: 9780821344989
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Banana Improvement Project has in large measure met the challange above, quoted from the 1994 background paper by Buddenhagen (1996) on the status of global research on banana and plantain. That paper was commissioned by the World Bank to provide background for the five-year BIP program that brought together some of the best research talent worldwide to work on bananas. BIP operated throughout 1994-98, and this publication records the results of the 18 individual research projects, plus the results of an independent economic impact assessement that reported a likely return on investment of 20 to 33 percent.
Author: G. J. Persley
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 1996-01-01
Total Pages: 62
ISBN-13: 9780821337400
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Banana research needs and opportunities; Overview of the banana improvement project; Portfolio of projects; Summary and recommendations.
Author: Richard E. Litz
Publisher: CABI
Published: 2020-01-29
Total Pages: 704
ISBN-13: 1780648278
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book covers the biotechnology of all the major fruit and nut species. Since the very successful first edition of this book in 2004, there has been rapid progress for many fruit and nut species in cell culture, genomics and genetic transformation, especially for citrus and papaya. This book covers both these cutting-edge technologies and regeneration pathways, protoplast culture, in vitro mutagenesis, ploidy manipulation techniques that have been applied to a wider range of species. Three crop species, Diospyros kaki (persimmon), Punica granatum (pomegranate) and Eriobotrya japonica (loquat) are included for the first time. The chapters are organized by plant family to make it easier to make comparisons and exploitation of work with related species. Each chapter discusses the plant family and the related wild species for 38 crop species, and has colour illustrations. It is essential for scientists and post graduate students who are engaged in the improvement of fruit, nut and plantation crops.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2010-11-09
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9264096159
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →These OECD Biosafety Consensus Documents identify elements of scientific information used in the environmental safety and risk assessment of transgenic organisms which are common to OECD member countries and some non members associated with the work.
Author: Pablo A. Chong
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-08-29
Total Pages: 460
ISBN-13: 3030513580
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Food security, crop protection, biodiversity, and human and environmental health are among the main needs and concerns of society. Modern biotechnology and life sciences represent a constantly evolving area that is key for the rational use of natural resources – resources that in turn are indispensable for societal development. This book features the outcomes of the IV International Biotechnology and Biodiversity Congress, held in Guayaquil, Ecuador, 2018. It includes extensive reviews of the trends in agricultural and forestry biotechnology, molecules and materials biodiscovery, ethnomedicine, environmental impact and bioindustry research, describing many of these topics from the Latin America perspective and showing how the biodiversity and ancient knowledge of these countries are vital for worldwide sustainable development.
Author: Y. P. S. Bajaj
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 3642610811
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In continuation of Somaclonal Variation and Crop Improvement I (1990), this volume is comprised of twenty-four chapters dealing with somaclonal variants showing resistance to salt/drought, herbicides, viruses, Alternaria, Fusarium, Glomerella, Verticillium, Phytophthora, fall armyworm, etc. in a number of plants of economic importance. It is divided into two sections: Section I. Somaclonal Variation in Agricultural Crops: wheat, rice, maize, sorghum, potato, tomato, Lotus, Stylosanthes, banana, strawberry, citrus, colt cherry. Section II. Somaclonal Variation in Medicinal and Aromatic Plants: Atropa, Carthamus, Hypericum, Lavatera, Nicotiana, Primula, Rauwolfia, Scilla, and Zinnia. This book will be of great assistance to research workers, teachers, and advanced students of plant pathology, tissue culture, pharmacy, horticulture, and especially plant breeding.
Author: Y.P.S Bajaj
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 3642578403
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume comprising 28 chapters on the in vitro manipulation of plant protoplasts contributed by inter- national experts deals with the isolation, fusion, culture, immobilization, cryopreservation and ultrastructural studies on protoplasts and the regeneration of somatic hybrids and cybrids.
Author: International Musa Testing Program. Global Conference
Publisher: Bioversity International
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: P. K. Ray
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2002-06
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9783540428558
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Plant breeding has undergone a period of very rapid and significant development in recent years and the area of fruit breeding is no exception. This book provides a balanced, up-to-date and comprehensive account of the developments in the field of breeding tropical and subtropical fruits. It offers not only the theoretical and applied aspects of breedings fruits but also provides an authoritative manual of the conventional and new techniques used for increasing efficiency of crop improvement programmes. In specific chapters the book deals with crop taxonomy, genetic resources, floral biology, breeding objectives, inheritance patterns and information on new improved cultivars/hybrids.