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UNINA9910830261603321 |
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Better crops for food / / Ciba Foundation |
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London, [England] : , : Pitman Books Ltd., , 1983 |
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Newark, New Jersey : , : CIBA Pharmaceutical Company (Medical Education Division), , [date of distribution not identified] |
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©1983 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-57216-8 |
9786613884619 |
0-470-72078-6 |
0-470-71848-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Collana |
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Ciba Foundation Symposium ; ; 97 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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O'ConnorMaeve |
NugentJonathan |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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; |
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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 |
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