Organic Crop Breeding, 1st Edition
$439.65
- Hardcover
312 pages
- Release Date
9 February 2012
Summary
Organic Crop Breeding provides readers with a thorough review of the latest efforts by crop breeders and geneticists to develop improved varieties for organic production. The book opens with chapters looking at breeding efforts that focus on specific valuable traits such as quality, pest and disease resistance as well as the impacts improved breeding efforts can have on organic production. The second part of the book is a series of crop specific case studies that look at breeding efforts curr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780470958582 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0470958588 |
| Author: | Edith T. Lammerts van Bueren, James R. Myers |
| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
| Imprint: | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 312 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 9 February 2012 |
| Weight: | 780g |
| Dimensions: | 254mm x 180mm x 18mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
“The editors have done an excellent job in putting together a well-organized and informative book, which covers theory, practice, issues and the latest research.” (Experimental Agriculture, 4 October 2012)
About The Author
Edith T. Lammerts van Bueren
Edith T. Lammerts van Bueren holds an endowed chair at Wageningen University as Professor of Organic Plant Breeding and senior researcher Organic Plant Breeding at the Louis Bolk Institute in the Netherlands.
James R. Myers is the Baggett-Frazier Professor of Vegetable Breeding and Genetics in the Department of Horticulture at Oregon State University.
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