Overview
- Collects, in a single publication, the most recent advances and discoveries concerning breeding for biotic stresses, covering all major classes of biotic challenges to agriculture and food production
- Presents the state-of-the-art in plant stresses caused by all microorganisms, weeds and insects and how to breed for them
- Complementing Plant Breeding for Abiotic Stress Tolerance, this book was written for scientists and students interested in learning how to breed for biotic stress scenarios
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Experience shows that biotic stresses occur with different levels of intensity in nearly all agricultural areas around the world. The occurrence of insects, weeds and diseases caused by fungi, bacteria or viruses may not be relevant in a specific year but they usually harm yield in most years. Global warming has shifted the paradigm of biotic stresses in most growing areas, especially in the tropical countries, sparking intense discussions in scientific forums. This book was written with the idea of collecting in a single publication the most recent advances and discoveries concerning breeding for biotic stresses, covering all major classes of biotic challenges to agriculture and food production. Accordingly, it presents the state-of-the-art in plant stresses caused by all microorganisms, weeds and insects and how to breed for them. Complementing Plant Breeding for Abiotic Stress Tolerance, this book was written for scientists and students interested in learning how to breed for biotic stress scenarios, allowing them to develop a greater understanding of the basic mechanisms of resistance to biotic stresses and develop resistant cultivars.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Plant Breeding for Biotic Stress Resistance
Editors: Roberto Fritsche-Neto, Aluízio Borém
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33087-2
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-33086-5Published: 02 October 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-44883-6Published: 09 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-33087-2Published: 01 October 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 168
Topics: Plant Breeding/Biotechnology, Agriculture, Plant Genetics and Genomics, Plant Physiology, Plant Pathology