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What is Plant Breeding about?
This book, __Plant Breeding__, has it bases in an earlier text entitled __An Introduction to Plant Breeding__ by Jack Brown and Peter Caligari, first published in 2008. The challenges facing today’s plant breeders have never been more overwhelming, yet the prospects to contribute significantly to global food security and farmers’ quality of life have never been more exciting and fulfilling. Despite this there has been a worrying decline in public funding for plant breeding-related research and support for international centers of germplasm development and crop improvement. In part, this has resulted in a serious reduction in the number of young people interested in devoting their professional careers to plant breeding as well as the number of universities offering plant breeding courses or conducting relevant research in plant breeding. The authors’ aim in writing this book is to provide an integrated and updated view of the current scientific progress related to diverse plant breeding disciplines, within the context of applied breeding programs. This excellent new book will encourage a new generation of students to pursue careers related to plant breeding and will assist a wi
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Brown, Jack;Caligari, Peter D. S.;Campos, Hugo A
- Publisher
- Wiley Blackwell
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781118873526
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Agriculture, Science, Stem
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