Titre : | Plant breeding | Type de document : | texte imprimé | Auteurs : | Jack Brown, Auteur ; Peter D.S. Caligari, Auteur ; Hugo Campos, Auteur | Mention d'édition : | 2nd edition | Editeur : | Wiley-Blackwell | Année de publication : | 2014 | Importance : | 278p. | Présentation : | couv.ill. en coul. | Format : | 24.5x19cm | ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-470-65830-7 | Note générale : | index | Langues : | Français (fre) | Mots-clés : | Plant Breeding | Résumé : | This book, Plant Breeding, has it bases in an earlier text entitled An Introduction to Plant Breeding by Jack Brown and Peter Caligari, first published in 2008. The challenges facing today’s plant breeders have never been more overwhelming, yet the prospects to contribute significantly to global food security and farmers’ quality of life have never been more exciting and fulfilling. Despite this there has been a worrying decline in public funding for plant breeding-related research and support for international centers of germplasm development and crop improvement. In part, this has resulted in a serious reduction in the number of young people interested in devoting their professional careers to plant breeding as well as the number of universities offering plant breeding courses or conducting relevant research in plant breeding.
The authors’ aim in writing this book is to provide an integrated and updated view of the current scientific progress related to diverse plant breeding disciplines, within the context of applied breeding programs. This excellent new book will encourage a new generation of students to pursue careers related to plant breeding and will assist a wider audience of agricultural students, agronomists, policy makers and those with an interest in agriculture in gaining insight about the issues affecting plant breeding and its key role in improving the quality of life of people and in securing sufficient food, at the quality required and at an affordable price.
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Plant breeding [texte imprimé] / Jack Brown, Auteur ; Peter D.S. Caligari, Auteur ; Hugo Campos, Auteur . - 2nd edition . - [S.l.] : Wiley-Blackwell, 2014 . - 278p. : couv.ill. en coul. ; 24.5x19cm. ISBN : 978-0-470-65830-7 index Langues : Français ( fre) Mots-clés : | Plant Breeding | Résumé : | This book, Plant Breeding, has it bases in an earlier text entitled An Introduction to Plant Breeding by Jack Brown and Peter Caligari, first published in 2008. The challenges facing today’s plant breeders have never been more overwhelming, yet the prospects to contribute significantly to global food security and farmers’ quality of life have never been more exciting and fulfilling. Despite this there has been a worrying decline in public funding for plant breeding-related research and support for international centers of germplasm development and crop improvement. In part, this has resulted in a serious reduction in the number of young people interested in devoting their professional careers to plant breeding as well as the number of universities offering plant breeding courses or conducting relevant research in plant breeding.
The authors’ aim in writing this book is to provide an integrated and updated view of the current scientific progress related to diverse plant breeding disciplines, within the context of applied breeding programs. This excellent new book will encourage a new generation of students to pursue careers related to plant breeding and will assist a wider audience of agricultural students, agronomists, policy makers and those with an interest in agriculture in gaining insight about the issues affecting plant breeding and its key role in improving the quality of life of people and in securing sufficient food, at the quality required and at an affordable price.
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