1st Edition
What's New About Crop Plants Novel Discoveries of the 21st Century
By U. S. Gupta
Copyright 2011
668 Pages
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CRC Press
649 Pages
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CRC Press
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Until recently, breeding efforts in mass produced food crops centered on high yield production while sacrificing flavor, taste and other quality traits. Now, more emphasis is being placed on the enhancement of nutritional and medicinal properties of the food crops. Aside from merely being considered a source of food, crops are today being looked from a health benefit perspective and even from an... Read more
Qualitative Improvement of Crop Plants
CEREALS
Rice
Wheat
Barley
Oat
Rye
MILLETS
Maize
Sorghum
CARBOHYDRATE RICH TUBERS
Potato
Sweet Potato
Cassava
GRAIN LEGUMES
Phaseolus
Vigna Species
Broad Bean
Chickpea
VEGETABLE CROPS
Tomato
Brassica Vegetables
Cucurbita Vegetables
Spinach
Onion
OILSEED CROPS
Soybean
Peanut
Oilseed Brassicas
Sunflower
Sugarcane
Cotton
Tobacco
Biography
Gupta, U. S.
