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Plant Breeding for Abiotic Stress Tolerance by Aluízio Borém, Magno Antonio Patto Ramalho (auth.), Roberto Fritsche-Neto, Aluízio Borém (eds.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Plant Breeding for Abiotic Stress Tolerance about?

The rapid population growth and the increase in the per capita income, especially in the group of emerging countries referred to as BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) has created huge pressure for the expansion of the agricultural growing area and the crop yields to meet the rising demand. As a result, many areas that have been considered marginal for growing crops, due to their low fertility, drought, salinity, and many other abiotic stresses, have now been incorporated in the production system. Additionally, climate change has brought new challenges to agriculture to produce food, feed, fiber and biofuels. To cope with these new challenges, many plant breeding programs have reoriented their breeding scope to stress tolerance in the last years. The authors of this book have collected the most recent advances and discoveries applied to breeding for abiotic stresses in this book, starting with new physiological concepts and breeding methods, and moving on to discuss modern molecular biological approaches geared to the development of improved cultivars tolerant to most sorts of abiotic stress.   Written in an easy to understand style, this book is an excel

Who reads Plant Breeding for Abiotic Stress Tolerance?

Author

Aluízio Borém, Magno Antonio Patto Ramalho (auth.), Roberto Fritsche-Neto, Aluízio Borém (eds.)

Publisher

Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9783642435539

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Technology, Agriculture