Overview
- Near-comprehensive coverage of new advances in crop breeding for drought and salinity stress tolerance
- Chapters contributed by active scientists who are among the world’s top experts in plant biology, genetics, and breeding
- The topic defines a critical area for needed understanding in ways of addressing future world food needs in a changing, increasingly dry climate
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Table of contents (32 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
Plant stress caused by drought and salinity are among the major constraints on crop production and food security worldwide. Breeding programs to improve crop yield in dry and saline environments have progressed slowly due to our limited understanding of the underlying physiological, biochemical, developmental, and genetic mechanisms that determine plant responses to these forms of stress, as well as to technical difficulties in combining favourable alleles to create the improved high yielding genotypes needed for these environments.
"Advances in Molecular Breeding toward Drought and Salt Tolerant Crops" seeks to integrate the most recent findings about key biological determinants of plant stress tolerance with modern crop improvement strategies. This volume is unique because is provides exceptionally wide coverage of current knowledge and expertise being applied in drought and salt tolerance research, spanning the scientific hierarchy from physiology, biochemistry, development, and genetics, to the newest technologies being used to manipulate drought and salinity associated traits for germplasm improvement. This book will be an invaluable reference for educators and researchers in agronomy and horticulture, crop breeding, molecular genetics, and biotechnology.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Advances in Molecular Breeding Toward Drought and Salt Tolerant Crops
Editors: Matthew A. Jenks, Paul M. Hasegawa, S. Mohan Jain
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5578-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-5577-5Published: 27 September 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0460-9Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-5578-2Published: 14 September 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 817