Pulses, Sugar and Tuber Crops

Pulses, Sugar and Tuber Crops
Author: Chittaranjan Kole
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2007-01-20
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3540345167

Pulses, Sugar and Tuber Crops comprises reviews contributed by 47 eminent scientists from 10 countries. The chapters on common bean, pea, cowpea, sugarcane and potato include comprehensive reviews of voluminous research findings. Fundamental aspects and molecular results are also presented for eight ‘orphan crops’ of high agroeconomic importance including mungbean, lentil, chickpea, lathyrus, pigeonpea, sweet potato, cassava and yam. works on quinoa and Bambara groundnut are reviewed for the first time.

Fruits and Nuts

Fruits and Nuts
Author: Chittaranjan Kole
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2007-03-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3540345337

"Fruits and Nuts" form the largest group among crop plants. Several constraints such as long life cycle have caused comparatively slow research progress in the past. The chapters on 20 fruit and nut crops authored by 56 renowned scientists from 12 countries include for the first time comprehensive reviews on a variety of fruits and nuts. The huge amount of information hitherto dispersed in journals is now available in a clearly structured reference work.

Cereals and Millets

Cereals and Millets
Author: Chittaranjan Kole
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2006-10-28
Genre: Science
ISBN: 354034389X

Part of the seven-volume series Genome Mapping and Molecular Breeding in Plants, this book covers Cereals and Millets, which provide staple food for most of the earth’s population. This book includes chapters on rice, wheat, maize, barley, oats, rye, sorghum, pearl millet, foxtail millet and finger millet. The emphasis is on advanced research on the major crops, including the model plants maize and rice, as well as on future road maps of genomic research for the less-often considered but equally deserving cereals and millets.

Technical Crops

Technical Crops
Author: Chittaranjan Kole
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2007-04-24
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3540345388

Technical Crops includes plants of great agricultural importance. One chapter is devoted to cotton, the most important fiber crop on which significant progress in molecular genetic research has been made. Reviews on oil palm, coffee, tea, cocoa and rubber describe traditional breeding and preliminary molecular results. Chapters on forage crops, ornamentals, and medicinal and aromatic plants may serve as road maps for further molecular research.

Oilseeds

Oilseeds
Author: Chittaranjan Kole
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2007-05-05
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3540343881

Part of the seven-volume series Genome Mapping and Molecular Breeding in Plants, the volume Oilseeds is devoted to oil-producing field crops such as soybeans, oilseed rape, peanuts, sunflowers, Indian mustard, Brassica rapa, black mustard and flax. While the grouping of economic plants is conventionally based on their agricultural purposes, several crops covered in this volume have other uses besides yielding oils. Brassica rapa is also used as a vegetable, the sunflower as an ornamental, and flax as a fibre crop. Black mustard, which is used as a condiment but is genetically close to other Brassica species, is also included here.