Gene Banks and the World's Food (eBook)

Donald L. Plucknett, Nigel J.H. Smith (Autoren)

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2014
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-5811-8 (ISBN)

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Gene Banks and the World's Food contributes to the crucial debate on how best to preserve some of society's most valuable raw material. The authors also provide an up-to-date report on the status and locations of gene banks, which includes the latest available information on germplasm holdings by crop. They (hen discuss how these holdings are being used to develop better crop varieties for the benefit of people around the world.Originally published in 1986.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.7.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Aegilops speltoides • Agricultural Economics • Agricultural experiment station • Agricultural Productivity • Agriculture • Agriculture (Chinese mythology) • Agronomy • American Seed Trade Association • American Society of Agronomy • Bacterial blight (barley) • bacterial wilt • Barley • beetroot • biodiversity • Biotechnology • breadfruit • Breakfast cereal • Brussels Sprout • Calisaya (liqueur) • Cassava • cereal • crop production • Crops Research Institute • Crop yield • Cultigen • Cultivar • cultivator • Eragrostis tef • Farmer • Floriculture • Food and Agriculture Organization • food science • food security • fungus • Garbanzo bean • Gene bank • Gene Pool • genetic diversity • genetic drift • Genetic Engineering • Genetic Erosion • germplasm • Green Revolution • Henry Wickham (explorer) • horticulture • Human nutrition • Indian Agricultural Research Institute • Institute of Plant Industry • International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas • International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics • International Institute of Tropical Agriculture • International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center • International Potato Center • International Rice Research Institute • Irrigation • legume • Lyon Arboretum • Maize • manure • Maranta arundinacea • Marantaceae • mealybug • Mutation breeding • Natural Resources Conservation Service • Onion • pathogen • PEA • Perennial crop • pistachio • Plant Breeding • planters • Plant genetics • Plant Patent Act of 1930 • plant pathology • Plant variety (law) • potato • Potato leafroll virus • Potato spindle tuber viroid • Potato virus Y • Primary sector of the economy • radish • Rice • Rice production in the Philippines • seed company • Shattering (agriculture) • sorghum • Sorghum bicolor • Sowing • soybean • spinach • Synchytrium endobioticum • Ti Plasmid • Transplanting • tropical Asia • United States Department of Agriculture • veal • Vegetable • Wheat • Wheat Fields (Van Gogh series) • Wilson Popenoe
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-5811-9 / 1400858119
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-5811-8 / 9781400858118