Brown / Caligari / Campos Plant Breeding

2. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-87351-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten, E-Book

This book, Plant Breeding, has it bases in an earliertext entitled An Introduction to Plant Breeding by JackBrown and Peter Caligari, first published in 2008. The challengesfacing today's plant breeders have never been moreoverwhelming, yet the prospects to contribute significantly toglobal food security and farmers' quality of life have neverbeen more exciting and fulfilling. Despite this there hasbeen a worrying decline in public funding for plantbreeding-related research and support for internationalcenters of germplasm development and crop improvement. In part, this has resulted in a serious reduction in the number ofyoung people interested in devoting their professional careers toplant breeding as well as the number of universities offering plantbreeding courses or conducting relevant research in plantbreeding.
The authors' aim in writing this book is to provide anintegrated and updated view of the current scientific progressrelated to diverse plant breeding disciplines, within the contextof applied breeding programs. This excellent new book willencourage a new generation of students to pursue careers related toplant breeding and will assist a wider audience of agriculturalstudents, agronomists, policy makers and those with an interest inagriculture in gaining insight about the issues affecting plantbreeding and its key role in improving the quality of life ofpeople and in securing sufficient food, at the quality required andat an affordable price.
With comprehensive coverage including questions designed forstudents, and an accompanying website containing additionalmaterial to help in the study of the subject, Plant Breedingis an ideal text for all those studying plant and crop sciences,and a convenient reference source for professionals working in thearea. All libraries within universities and research establishmentswhere biological and agricultural sciences are studied and taughtshould have multiple copies of this book.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brown, Jack

Caligari, Peter

Campos, Hugo

Über Autor(innen)

Jack Brown, Full Professor, Plant Breeding &Genetics, University of Idaho, USA. HNC Mathematics &Statistics, Napier College, Edinburgh, Scotland; MSc and PhD at StAndrews University, St Andrews, Scotland. Professor Brown hasover 40 years of experience working as a plant breeder in thepublic and private sector and has developed and released cultivarsof barley, potato, canola, mustard and wheat. Professor Browncurrently teaches upper division and graduate classes in plantbreeding, genetics, and field crop production.
Peter Caligari, Full Professor, University of Talca,Chile. BSc, PhD and DSc at University of Birmingham,UK. Professor Caligari has over 40 years of researchexperience in, and application of, genetics and plant breeding in arange of crops including potatoes, cashew nuts, oil palm, lupins,strawberries and blueberries, and extensive teaching experienceincluding plant breeding and genetics at the graduate andpost-graduate level.
Hugo Campos, Fellow, Monsanto, Chile. BSc atUniversidad Austral de Chile, PhD at the John Innes Centre, UK, MBAat Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile. Dr Campos has over 24 yearsof experience in plant biotechnology, crop breeding and productdevelopment in industry, academia and international agriculturaldevelopment.