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Plant Breeding for Water-Limited Environments

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  • © 2011
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Authors:
  1. Abraham Blum

    1. Tel Aviv, Israel

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  • A science-based breeder’s manual for water limited environments specifically directed at clearing up the confusion and focusing on what can practically be achieved and how to proceed about it - Integrates the major implications of current knowledge in the different relevant disciplines - No competition to date!
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. The Moisture Environment

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    Pages 1-9
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  3. Plant Water Relations, Plant Stress and Plant Production

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    Pages 11-52
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  4. Drought Resistance and Its Improvement

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    Pages 53-152
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  5. Phenotyping and Selection

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    Pages 153-216
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  6. Genetic Resources for Drought Resistance

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    Pages 217-234
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  7. Breeding Considerations and Strategies

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    Pages 235-243
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  8. Epilogue

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    Pages 245-247
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  9. Back Matter

    Pages 249-255
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About this book

This volume will be the only existing single-authored book offering a science-based breeder’s manual directed at breeding for water-limited environments. Plant breeding is characterized by the need to integrate information from diverse disciplines towards the development and delivery of a product defines as a new cultivar. Conventional breeding draws information from disciplines such as genetics, plant physiology, plant pathology, entomology, food technology and statistics. Plant breeding for water-limited environments and the development of drought resistant crop cultivars is considered as one of the more difficult areas in plant breeding while at the same time it is becoming a very pressing issue. This volume is unique and timely in that it develops realistic solutions and protocols towards the breeding of drought resistant cultivars by integrating knowledge from environmental science, plant physiology, genetics and molecular biology.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Tel Aviv, Israel

    Abraham Blum

About the author

Abraham Blum is senior scientist retired from The Volcani Center, Agriculture Research Organization, at Bet Dagan, Israel where he headed the dryland wheat and sorghum breeding programs. Throughout his career his main interest was in understanding how plants cope with drought and heat stress and subsequently identify principles and develop methods for the genetic improvement of plant production under drought and heat stress. He authored numerous scientific papers and reviews on the subject as well as a book entitled ‘Plant Breeding for Stress Environments’. Presently he is consulting and teaching, while curating his web site at www.plantstress.com.

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