Genetic Resources, Chromosome Engineering, and Crop Improvement
Genetic Resources, Chromosome Engineering, and Crop Improvement

Author: Ram J. Singh

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2006-11-07

Total Pages: 558

ISBN-13: 1420009567

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Summarizing landmark research, Volume 3 of this essential series furnishes information on the availability of germplasm resources that breeders can exploit for producing high-yielding vegetable crop varieties. Written by leading international experts, this volume offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date information on employing genetic resource

Roots and Tubers for the 21st Century
Roots and Tubers for the 21st Century

Author: Gregory J. Scott

Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 79

ISBN-13: 0896296350

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Synthesizes a significant amount of data and information on roots and tubers in an effort to provide a clearer vision of their past, present, and future roles in the food systems of developing countries. How the production and use of these commodities have changed and will continue to change over time are all the more important to understand because of the contribution they make to the diets and income-generating activities of the rural and urban poor in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Provides a fuller understanding of the prospects of roots and tubers for food, feed, and other uses in developing countries.

Notes of a Potato Watcher
Notes of a Potato Watcher

Author: James Lang

Publisher: International Potato Center

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9781585441389

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"Native to the New World, the potato was domesticated by Andean farmers, probably in the Lake Titicaca basin, almost as early as grain crops were cultivated in the Near East. Full of essential vitamins and energy-giving starch, the potato has proved a valuable world resource. Curious Spaniards took the potato back to Europe, from whence it spread worldwide. Today, the largest potato producer is China, with India not far behind. To tell the potato's story, Lang has done fieldwork in South America, Asia, and Africa."--Jacket.