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- Set in context of increasing food production between 2015 and 2050
- Extensive literature review of past successes, current practices and future possibilities in plant breeding
- Explanations of relevant theory
- Single author account of whole subject area and hence single style of presentation
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Historical Introduction
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Reproduction, Heredity and Variation
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Landraces to High Yielding Cultivars
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Improving High Yielding Cultivars
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About this book
This book aims to help plant breeders by reviewing past achievements, currently successful practices, and emerging methods and techniques. Theoretical considerations are also presented to strike the right balance between being as simple as possible but as complex as necessary.
The United Nations predicts that the global human population will continue rising to 9.0 billion by 2050. World food production will need to increase between 70-100 per cent in just 40 years. First generation bio-fuels are also using crops and cropland to produce energy rather than food. In addition, land area used for agriculture may remain static or even decrease as a result of degradation and climate change, despite more land being theoretically available, unless crops can be bred which tolerate associated abiotic stresses. Lastly, it is unlikely that steps can be taken to mitigate all of the climate change predicted to occur by 2050, and beyond, and hence adaptation of farming systems and crop production will be required to reduce predicted negative effects on yields that will occur without crop adaptation. Substantial progress will therefore be required in bridging the yield gap between what is currently achieved per unit of land and what should be possible in future, with the best farming methods and best storage and transportation of food, given the availability of suitably adapted cultivars, including adaptation to climate change. My book is divided into four parts: Part I is an historical introduction; Part II deals with the origin of genetic variation by mutation and recombination of DNA; Part III explains how the mating system of a crop species determines the genetic structure of its landraces; Part IV considers the three complementary options for future progress: use of sexual reproduction in further conventional breeding, base broadening and introgression; mutation breeding; and genetically modified crops.
Authors and Affiliations
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Edinburgh, United Kingdom
John E. Bradshaw
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Plant Breeding: Past, Present and Future
Authors: John E. Bradshaw
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23285-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-23284-3Published: 15 March 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79464-8Published: 19 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-23285-0Published: 08 March 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVIII, 693
Number of Illustrations: 26 b/w illustrations, 56 illustrations in colour
Topics: Plant Breeding/Biotechnology, Plant Genetics and Genomics, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts