Publisher: CABI Publishing
Publication year: 2012
E-ISBN: 9781845939694
P-ISBN(Hardback): 9781845938185
Subject: Q94 Botany;S3 Agriculture ( Agronomy )
Keyword: Technology Agriculture Crop Science Agronomy and Crop Production Botany and Plant Sciences
Language: ENG
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Description
Disease resistance is one of the major factors that can be improved to sustain yield potential in cultivated crops. This book looks at disease resistance in wheat, concentrating on all the economically important diseases - their economic impact and geographical spread, breeding for resistance, pathogen variability, resistance mechanisms and recent advances made on resistance genes. Newer strategies for identifying resistance genes and identify resistance mechanisms are discussed, including cloning, gene transfer and the use of genetically modified plants.
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