Text

Wheat Improvement

---

Wheat is a staple for rich and poor alike. Its improvement as a discipline
was boosted when statisticians frst distinguished heritable variation from environment effects. Many twentieth century crop scientists contributed to the Green
Revolution that tripled yield potential of staple crops but yield stagnation is now a
concern, especially considering the multiple challenges facing food security.
Investments in modern technologies – phenomics, genomics etc. – provide tools to
take both translational research and crop breeding to the next level. Herein wheat
experts address three main themes: “Delivering Improved Germplasm” outlining
theory and practice of wheat breeding and the attendant disciplines; ‘Translational
Research to Incorporate Novel Traits’ covers biotic and abiotic challenges and outlines links between more fundamental research and crop breeding. However, effective translational research takes time and can be off-putting to funders and scientists
who feel pressure to deliver near-term impacts. The fnal section ‘Rapidly Evolving
Technologies & Likely Potential’ outlines methods that can boost translational
research and breeding. The volume by being open access aims to disseminate a
comprehensive textbook on wheat improvement to public and private wheat breeders globally, while serving as a benchmark of the current status as we address the
formidable challenges that agriculture faces for the foreseeable future.

---

Availability

Detail Information

Series Title

-

Call Number

-

Publisher

: Springer Cham., 2022

Collation

LII, 629

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9783030906733

Classification

-

Content Type

-

Media Type

computer

Carrier Type

online resource

Edition

-

Subject(s)

Wheat Improvement

Specific Detail Info

-

Statement of Responsibility

Tanaka Matthew P. Reynolds, Hans-Joachim Braun

Other Information

Cataloger

angga

Source

-

Validator

-

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-90673-3

Journal Volume

-

Journal Issue

-

Subtitle

-

Parallel Title

-

Other version/related

File Attachment

Comments

---

You must be logged in to post a comment