Overview
- The first book on plant breeding beyond the era of omics
- Full coverage of the latest technologies and results of omics
- Future needs and applications beyond current omics technology
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Rodomiro Ortiz is Professor of Genetics and Plant Breeding at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) in Alnarp, Sweden. He worked as geneticist at Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina (UNALM), Centro Internacional de la Papa (CIP, Lima, Perú), Rutgers University (Chatsworth, New Jersey, USA) and International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA, Ibadan, Nigeria), held a Nordic professorship in plant genetic resources at the Danish Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University (merged now with the University of Copenhagen, Denmark), served as Director at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT, Patancheru, Telangana, India), IITA, and the Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo (CIMMYT, El Batán, México), and independent free-lance consultant for international, regional and national organizations engaged in agricultural research-for-development. CGIAR awarded IITA in 1994 the prestigious King Baudouin Award for the multidisciplinary research of the team working in plantain and banana improvement, in which Ortiz was both a hands-on researcher and program leader. His professional expertise includes genetics, genetic resources, germplasm enhancement, plant breeding, agro-biotechnology, biosafety, intellectual property rights, and developing agro-ecosystem and livelihood system approaches aiming sustainable intensification of agriculture in the developing world. His h-index was 44 accord
ing to Google Scholar at end 2014.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Plant Breeding in the Omics Era
Authors: Rodomiro Ortiz Ríos
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20532-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-20531-1Published: 25 September 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34614-4Published: 22 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-20532-8Published: 16 September 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 249
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Plant Breeding/Biotechnology, Plant Genetics and Genomics, Plant Anatomy/Development, Plant Physiology, Developmental Biology