Author: Publisher: CIMMYT
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
supplement to the book of abstracts and author index the genetics and exploitation of heterosis in crops
Author: Hybrid Rice Technology
Author: S. S. VirmaniPublisher: Int. Rice Res. Inst.
ISBN: 9712200531
Category : Hybrid rice
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This symposium is a follow-up to one held in China in 1986. Since then considerable progress has been made in research and development of hybrid rice. This second international symposium was held under the umbrella of the International Rice Research Conference. Eighty scientists and seed production experts from 18 countries, IRRI and FAO attended. Contributions covered breeding, biotechnology, seed production, agronomy, plant physiology, plant pathology, entomology and economics.
Organic Farming, Prototype for Sustainable Agricultures
Author: Stéphane BellonPublisher: Springer Science & Business
ISBN: 9400779275
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Stakeholders show a growing interest for organic food and farming (OF&F), which becomes a societal component. Rather than questioning whether OF&F outperforms conventional agriculture or not, the main question addressed in this book is how, and in what conditions, OF&F may be considered as a prototype towards sustainable agricultures. The book gathers 25 papers introduced in a first chapter. The first section investigates OF&F production processes and its capacity to benefit from the systems functioning to achieve higher self-sufficiency. The second one proposes an overview of organic performances providing commodities and public goods. The third one focuses on organics development pathways within agri-food systems and territories. As well as a strong theoretical component, this book provides an overview of the new challenges for research and development. It questions the benefits as well as knowledge gaps with a particular emphasis on bottlenecks and lock-in effects at various levels.
Manual on MUTATION BREEDING THIRD EDITION
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsPublisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9251305269
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
This paper provides guidelines for new high-throughput screening methods – both phenotypic and genotypic – to enable the detection of rare mutant traits, and reviews techniques for increasing the efficiency of crop mutation breeding.
Return to Resistance
Author: Raoul A. RobinsonPublisher: IDRC
ISBN: 9780889367746
Category : Agricultural pests
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
In the tradition of Silent Spring, Raoul Robinson's Return to Resistance calls for a revolution. Traditional plant breeding techniques have led us to depend more and more on chemical pesticides to protect ourcrops. Return to Resistance shows gardeners, farmers, and plant breeders how to use a long-neglected technique to create hardy new plant varieties that are naturally resistant to pests and disease. Horizontal resistance breeding has been largely ignored in this century due to the popularity and apparent successes of the Mendelian geneticists. However the colossal, unrecognized failure of m.
Drought Resistance in Crops with Emphasis on Rice
Author: International Rice Research InstitutePublisher: Int. Rice Res. Inst.
ISBN: 9711040786
Category : Crop yields
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Insect Pollination of Cultivated Crop Plants
Author: Samuel Emmett McGregorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Abeille
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Rice Genetics IV
Author: Gurdev S. KhushPublisher: Int. Rice Res. Inst.
ISBN: 157808167X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 501
Book Description
Geneticists contribute on a wide range of topics in this book, from classical genetics to the most advanced research on sequencing of the rice genome and functional genomics. They review advances in rice research and discuss molecular markers, genome organization and gene isolation.
Hybrid Rice Breeding Manual
Author: S. S. VirmaniPublisher: Int. Rice Res. Inst.
ISBN: 9712201031
Category : Hybrid rice
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Heterosis breeding and hybrid rice; Male sterility systems in rice; Organization of hybrid rice breeding program using CMS system; Source nursery; CMS maintenance and evaluation nursery; Testcross nursery; Restorer purification nursery; Backcross nursery; Combining ability nursery; Breeding rice hybrids with TGMS system; Nucleus and breeder seed production of A, B, R, and TGMS lines; Seed production of experimental rice hybrids; Evaluation of experimental rice hybrids; Improvement of parental lines; Methods of enhancing the levels of heterosis; Quality assurance procedures in hybrid rice breeding.
Science Cultivating Practice
Author: H. MaatPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401729549
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Science Cultivating Practice is an institutional history of agricultural science in the Netherlands and its overseas territories. The focus of this study is the variety of views about a proper relationship between science and (agricultural) practice. Such views and plans materialised in the overall organisation of research and education. Moreover, the book provides case studies of genetics and plant breeding in the Netherlands, colonial rice breeding, and agricultural statistics. Ideas affected the organisation as much as the other way round. The net result was an institutional development in which the values of academic science were rated higher than the values of practice. This book is a distinctive piece of work as it treats the dynamics of science in a European as well as in a colonial context. These different ecological and social environments lead to other forms of knowledge and experimentation as well as other ways of organising science.