Better crops for food / / Ciba Foundation

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910144654703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, [England] : , : Pitman Books Ltd., , 1983; Newark, New Jersey : , : CIBA Pharmaceutical Company (Medical Education Division), , [date of distribution not identified]; ©1983
• ISBN: 1-283-57216-8; 9786613884619; 0-470-72078-6; 0-470-71848-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Collana: Ciba Foundation Symposium ; ; 97
• Altri autori (Persone): O'ConnorMaeve; NugentJonathan
• Disciplina: 631.5
• Soggetti: Food crops; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Better crops for food; Contents; 1 Chairman's introduction; 2 Better crop for food - an overview; Crop production systems; The relevance of research; World hunger; REFERENCES; DISCUSSION; 3 Nutritional aspects of improvements in legume seed crops; Dietary considerations; REFERENCES; DISCUSSION; REFERENCES; 4 Status of new nitrogen inputs for crops; Nitrogen and crop production: past, present, future; The knowledge base for nitrogen input; Future technologies for nitrogen input; Summary; REFERENCES; DISCUSSION; REFERENCE; 5 Variation in and genetics of certain antinutritional and biologically active components of soybean seedKunitz trypsin inhibitor; Lectin; β-Amylase; Lipoxygenase-1; Conclusions; REFERENCES; DISCUSSION; REFERENCES; 6 Crops tolerant of salinity and other mineral stresses; Mineral stresses; A new approach; Salinity; Development of salt-tolerant crops; What shall we aim for?; What means shall we use?; REFERENCES; DISCUSSION; REFERENCES; 7 Intercropping studies with ; annual crops; Better use of environmental resources; Legume benefits; Control of weeds, pests and diseases; Yield stability; Intercropping in developed situationsREFERENCES; DISCUSSION; 8 Multiple land-use and agroforestry; Multiple land-use systems; Agroforestry; Plant species for agroforestry; The systems perspective of agroforestry; Whither agroforestry?; REFERENCES; DISCUSSION; REFERENCE; 9 An integrated disease and pest management scheme, EPIPRE, for wheat; The food production dilemma; The ecological dilemma; Crop protection and food production; Systems analysis in crop protection; The EPIPRE example; The context problem; Future prospects; REFERENCES; DISCUSSION; REFERENCE; 10 Maximizing hybrid vigour in autotetraploid alfalfaMaximum heterozygosity in diploids and autotetraploids; Minimizing heterozygosity for selection in autotetraploids; Novel methods for maximizing hybrid vigour in autotetraploids; REFERENCES; DISCUSSION; 11 New food legume crops for the tropics; Velvet bean; Rice bean; Bambara groundnut; Winged bean; Conclusion; REFERENCES; DISCUSSION; REFERENCES; 12 Germplasm preservation; Maintenance under minimal growth conditions; Storage of plant cells and tissues in undercooled conditions; Cryogenic storage of plant cell and tissue cultures; REFERENCES; DISCUSSION13 Somaclonal variation and genetic improvement of crop plants; Somaclonal variation; Presumptive generalities; Origin of somaclonal variation; Conclusions; REFERENCES; DISCUSSION; REFERENCES; General discussion; Possible roles of somaclonal variation in breeding; REFERENCES; 14 Applications of molecular biology in plant breeding: the detection of genetic variation and viral pathogens; Cytoplasmic variation and the southern corn leaf blight epidemic in maize; Detection of mitochondrial DNA variation; Characterization of plant genotypes using a rapid tissue hybridization method; The detection of viral pathogens by a molecular hybridization assay