Advances in Plant Breeding Strategies: Vegetable Crops, 1st ed. 2021 Volume 10: Leaves, Flowerheads, Green Pods, Mushrooms and Truffles
Coordonnateurs : Al-Khayri Jameel M., Jain S. Mohan, Johnson Dennis V.
Preface.- Part I: Leaves.- Chapter 1. Advances in Chicory (Cichorium intybus L.) Breeding Strategies (Laila Aldahak, Khaled F. M. Salem, Salih H. F. Al-Salim, and Jameel M. Al-Khayri).- Chapter 2. Chinese Cabbage (Brassica rapa L. var. pekinensis) Breeding: Application of Molecular Technology (Takumi Okamoto, Xiaochun Wei, Hasan Mehraj, Mohammad Rashed Hossain, Ayasha Akter, Naomi Miyaji, Yoshinobu Takada, Jong-In Park, Ryo Fujimoto, Ill-Sup Nou, and Masao Watanabe).- Chapter 3. Breeding Advances and Prospects in Rocket Salad (Eruca vesicaria ssp. sativa Mill.) Cultivation (Pasquale Tripodi, Paula Santos Coelho, and Carla Guijarro-Real).- Chapter 4. Spring Onion (Allium fistulosum L.) Breeding Strategies (Fatimah Kayat, Ahmed Mahmood Ibrahim, and Arifullah Mohammed).- Chapter 5. Water Spinach (Ipomoea aquatica Forsk.) Breeding (Moumita Gangopadhyay, Anup Kumar Das, Subhendu Bandyopadyay, and Samanwita Das).- Chapter 6. Watercress (Nasturtium officinale R. Br.) Breeding (Mohammadreza Hassandokht, Sajad Jafari, and Raheleh Ebrahimi).- Part II: Flowerheads and Green Pods.- Chapter 7. Advances in Cauliflower (Brassica oleracea var. botrytis L.) Breeding, with Emphasis on India (Pritam Kalia and Shrawan Singh).- Chapter 8. Globe Artichoke (Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus L.) Breeding (Fernando López-Anido and Eugenia Martin).- Chapter 9. Breeding Strategies of Garden Pea (Pisum sativum L.) (Amal M.E. Abdel Hamid and Khaled F.M. Salem).- Chapter 10. Genetic Improvement of Yardlong Bean (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp. ssp. sesquipedalis (L.) Verdc.) (Pidigam Saidaiah, Thuraga Vishnukiran, Someswar Rao Pandravada, Natarajan Sivaraj, Adimulam Srivani, Amarapalli Geetha, Nimmarajula Srinivas, and Venkateswaran Kamala).- Part III: Mushrooms.- Chapter 11. Enoki Mushroom (Flammulina velutipes (Curtis) Singer) Breeding (Ved P. Sharma, Anupam Barh, Rakesh Kumar Bairwa, Sudheer K. Annepu, Babita Kumari and Shwet Kamal).- Chapter 12. Shiitake Mushroom (Lentinula edodes (Berk.) Sing.) Breeding in China (Quanju Xiang, Bilal Adil, Qiang Chen, Yunfu Gu, Xianfu Zeng, and Xinzhu Li).- Part IV: Truffles.- Chapter 13. Desert Truffles (Terfezia spp.) Breeding (Asunción Morte, Francisco Arenas, José E. Marqués-Gálvez, Alberto Andrino, Ángel L. Guarnizo, Almudena Gutiérrez, Luis Miguel Berná, Manuela Pérez-Gilabert, Antonio Rodríguez, and Alfonso Navarro-Ródenas).- Chapter 14. Enhancing White Truffle (Tuber magnatum Picco and T. borchii Vittad.) Cultivation through Biotechnology Innovation (Alessandra Zambonelli, Mirco Iotti, Federico Puliga, and Ian R. Hall).
Prof. Shri Mohan Jain is a Consultant and Plant Biotechnologist, Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; received M. Phil, 1973 and Ph.D., 1978, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
Prof. Dennis V. Johnson is a Consultant and Former University Professor. He is a graduate of the University of California Los Angeles where he completed his B.A. (1966), M.A. (1970) and Ph.D. (1972) degrees in geography, with specialization in agriculture and biogeography.
Reviews research advances in the genetic improvement of important vegetable crops
Combines conventional breeding and biotechnology for the improvement of individual crops
Presents achievements and prospects of innovative molecular breeding tools
Addresses biodiversity, conservation and utilization in reference to the global climate change
Provides appendixes of available genetic resources and concerned research institutes
Chapters are written by an assemblage of internationally reputed scientists
Concepts are illustrated with high quality 91 color figures and 73 tables
Date de parution : 08-2022
Ouvrage de 540 p.
15.5x23.5 cm
Disponible chez l'éditeur (délai d'approvisionnement : 15 jours).
Prix indicatif 242,64 €
Ajouter au panierDate de parution : 08-2021
Ouvrage de 540 p.
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Mots-clés :
Biotechnology; Genetic improvement; Plant breeding; Tissue culture; Molecular biology