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Publisher: Bioversity International
Published:
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9290437553
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Aamir Raina
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2023-10-12
Total Pages: 579
ISBN-13: 3031266692
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →As per the reports of FAO, the human population will rise to 9 billion by the end of 2050 and 70% of more food must be produced over the next three decades to feed the additional population. The breeding approaches for crop improvement programs are dependent on the availability and accessibility of genetic variation, either spontaneous or induced by the mutagens. Plant breeders, agronomists, and geneticists are under constant pressure to expand food production by employing innovative breeding strategies to enhance yield, adaptability, nutrition, resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses. In conventional breeding approaches, introgression of genes in crop varieties is laborious and time-consuming. Nowadays, new innovative plant breeding techniques such as molecular breeding and plant biotechnology, supplement the traditional breeding approaches to achieve the desired goals of enhanced food production. With the advent of recent molecular tools like genomics, transgenics, molecular marker-assisted back-crossing, TILLING, Eco-TILLING, gene editing, CRISPR CAS, non-targeted protein abundant comparative proteomics, genome wide association studies have made possible mapping of important QTLs, insertion of transgenes, reduction of linkage drags, and manipulation of genome. In general, conventional and modern plant breeding approaches would be strategically ideal for developing new elite crop varieties to meet the feeding requirement of the increasing world population. This book highlights the latest progress in the field of plant breeding, and their applicability in crop improvement. The basic concept of this 2-volume work is to assess the use of modern breeding strategies in supplementing the conventional breeding toward the development of elite crop varieties, for obtaining desired goals of food production.
Author: Devra I. Jarvis
Publisher: Bioversity International
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 929043452X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: International Plant Genetic Resources Institute
Publisher: Bioversity International
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 69
ISBN-13: 9290434031
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: John Gregory Hawkes
Publisher:
Published: 2000-01-01
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780748743353
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: International Plant Genetic Resources Institute
Publisher: IDRC
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 0889368848
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Genes in the Field provides an interdisciplinary foundation for an important new conservation program: maintaining biological resources of crop plants within the systems where they have evolved. The book offers a truly global vision of the on-farm conservation movement and, like no other before it, provides a comprehensive review of the issues and challenges of on-farm conservation of genetic resources. The book's chapters are written by a collection of outstanding scholars and academics from a variety of disciplines; they include biologists, agronomists, anthropologists, economists, lawyers and agricultural development specialists. Genes in the Field is truly global in scope and multidisciplinary in character. It will appeal to a large, varied and international audience. Its most general appeal will be to professionals in the fields of conservation and agricultural development, particularly those who are involved in planning or implementing conservation programs. For course work, the book will be appropriate for graduate programs in agricultural development and conservation.
Author: Susan Bragdon
Publisher: Bioversity International
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 125
ISBN-13: 929043614X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →History and development. The FAO global system for the conservation and sustainable use of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture. The International treaty on plant genetic resources for dood and agriculture. The Convention on Biological Diversity. Origin and movement of OGR: implications for acess and benefit-sharing policies. The TRIPS agreement. UPOV. Phytosanitary and biosafety measures. Development and improvement of genetic resources. Cross-cutting issues. Economic issues.
Author: David Cooper
Publisher: Bioversity International
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 45
ISBN-13: 9290432381
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This paper argues that a comprehensive Multilateral System for plant genetic resouce for food and agriculture is required which ensures the conservation of plant genetic resources and their utilization form human benefit at a global level. Such a system would incorporate agreements on access to plant genetic resources which ensured their availability; mechanisms for the sharing of benefits derived from plant genetic resources; conservation networks and information systems, and research and plant breeding capacity which meets the needs of farmers worldwide. Such a system should be developed with the full participation of all groups involved in teh management genetic resources.
Author: Robin Pistorius
Publisher: Bioversity International
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 147
ISBN-13: 9290433086
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How plant genetic resources conservation became a global issue; Breeding strategies and conservation strategies; Establishing a globa es situ conservation network.