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| Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Ciba Foundation symposium ;
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| Online Access: |
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470720783 |
| Item Description: |
Proceedings of the Symposium on Better Crops for Food, held at the Ciba Foundation, London, 14-16 September 1982. Editors: Jonathan Nugent and Maeve O'Connor. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (viii, 248 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: |
9780470720783 0470720786 |
| Index Number: | SB16 |
| CLC: | S33 |
| Contents: | Better crops for food : an overview / C.R.W. Spedding -- Nutritional aspects of improvements in legume seed crops / D. Boulter -- Status of new nitrogen inputs for crops / Ralph W.F. Hardy, Peter G. Heytler, Ross M. Rainbird -- Variation in and genetics of certain antinutritional and biologically active components of soybean seed / Theodore Hymowitz -- Crops tolerant of salinity and other mineral stresses / Emanuel Epstein -- Intercropping studies with annual crops / R.W. Willey, M. Natarajan, M.S. Reddy, M.R. Rao, P.T.C. Nambiar, J. Kannaiyan, V.S. Bhatnagar -- Multiple land-use and agroforestry / P.K.R. Nair -- An integrated disease and pest management scheme, EPIPRE, for wheat / J.C. Zadoks -- Maximizing hybrid vigour in autotetraploid alfalfa / E.T. Bingham -- New food legume crops for the tropics / Nazmul Haq -- Germplasm preservation / Donald K. Dougall -- Somaclonal variation and genetic improvement of crop plants / William R. Scowcroft, Philip J. Larkin -- Applications of molecular biology in plant breeding: the detection of genetic variation and viral pathogens / R.B. Flavell, R.J. Kemble, R.E. Gunn, A. Abbott, D. Baulcombe -- Protoplast fusion and transformation / O. Schieder, P.P. Gupta, G. Krumbiegel, T. Hein. |