Genes, Crops and the Environment
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 3 June 1993
- ISBN 9780521431378
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages180 pages
- Size 229x152x14 mm
- Weight 440 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 9 b/w illus. 8 tables 0
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Short description:
This book describes the genetic resources of plants, their management and conservation.
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The productivity of agricultural systems is the result of human alteration of originally wild organisms over millennia. The availability of germplasm, particularly from wild relatives of crop plants, is vitally important in the development of new and improved crops for both agriculture and horticulture. The handling of these genetic resources for both immediate and future human benefits has resulted in the decades of interdisciplinary scientific research described in this book. The applications of this work and the associated operational programmes in all parts of the world are discussed in the light of their impact on the conservation of biodiversity, ecosystem rehabilitation and the future health of our planet.
' ... a concise, well-written introduction to the preservation and utilisation of crop genetic diversity.' Jeffrey Bennetzen, Trends in Genetics
Table of Contents:
1. Plant genetic resources - what they are and why they are needed; 2. What needs to be collected and how is it maintained?; 3. A global strategy for safe storage; 4. Access to the resource - core collections and databases; 5. Have we all that we need for the future?; 6. Have genetic resources already been of value?; 7. When there are no seeds; 8. Genes and politics; 9. A glimpse from 2050; Index.
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