Wheat in a Global Environment

Wheat in a Global Environment
Author: Z. Bedo
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 757
Release: 2013-06-29
Genre: Science
ISBN: 940173674X
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Wheat breeders have achieved significant results over the last fifty years in research on mankind's one of the most important crops. Classical genetic and breeding methods, far broader international cooperation than was experienced in earlier periods, and improvements in agronomic techniques have led to previously unimaginable development in the utilisation of wheat for human consumption. The contribution of wheat researchers is particularly noteworthy since these results have been achieved at a time when the world population has grown extremely dynamically. Despite this demographic explosion, of a proportion never previously experienced, thousands of millions of people have been saved from starvation, thus avoiding unpredictable social consequences and situations irreconcilable with human dignity. Despite these developments in many regions of the world food supplies are still uncertain and the increase in the world's wheat production has not kept pace with the population increase during the last decade. Due to the evils of civilisation and the pollution of the environment there is a constant decline in the per capita area of land suitable for agricultural production. Based on population estimates for 2030, the present wheat yield of around 600 million tonnes will have to be increased to almost 1000 million tonnes if food supplies are to be maintained at the present level.

Wheat: Prospects for Global Improvement

Wheat: Prospects for Global Improvement
Author: H.-J. Braun
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 561
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9401148961
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The book contains the proceedings of the Fifth International Wheat Conference at which leading international scientists reviewed current research issues and developments in wheat improvement. The debated topics cover breeding and genetics, genetic resources and importance of free germplasm exchange, breeding for biotic and abiotic stresses, physiology, agronomy and mineral nutrition, grain quality and biotechnology. A significant number of presentations were made by participants from the former USSR and Eastern and Central Europe, making this book also a prime reference for current wheat research and production status in these countries. This book provides an opportunity for wheat scientists interested in global wheat improvement issues to obtain an insight into the research that is currently being conducted worldwide and the prospects of further improvement to meet the increasing demands for this food commodity.

Wheat for the Nontraditional, Warm Areas

Wheat for the Nontraditional, Warm Areas
Author: David A. Saunders
Publisher:
Total Pages: 566
Release: 1991
Genre: Plant introduction
ISBN:
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Trends of wheat production in the warmer areas: major issues and economic considerations. Trends, potential, and problems of wheat production in Tanzania. Trends, major problems, and potential of wheat production in Zambia. The wheat development program in Bangladesh. Potencial for wheat production in Indonesia. Wheat research efforts in Vietnam. Trends, major problems, and potential of wheat production in Brazil. Wheat production in Paraguay: trends, major constraints, and potential. Global status and recent progress in breeding wheat for the warmer areas. New technologies and their application to wheat breeding in warmer areas. The status of wheat diseases and diseases research in warmer areas. Interactions between spot blotch (Cochliobolus sativus) and wheat cultivars. Integrated disease management-the changing concepts of controlling head blight and spot blotch. Improved scab resistance in China: sources of resistance and problems. Bacterial disease of wheat in the warmer areas-reality or myrth. Development of aphid-resistance wheat germplasm. Integrated pest management: aphid control in South America. Wheat crop management in the warmer areas: a review of issues and advances. Tillage practices and soil physical degradation in the wheat cropping systems of the warmer areas of Latin America. Tillage practices and soil degradation in the wheat cropping systems of the warmer areas of African and Asia. The effects of tillage practices and crop rotation on the epidemiology of some major wheat diseases. ...