Achieving sustainable cultivation of wheat Volume 1

Breeding, quality traits, pests and diseases

Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Technology, Agriculture & Animal Husbandry, Science

• Author: Dr P. Bramel, Dr Kellye Eversole, Dr Jacques Le Gouis, Prof. Martin A. J. Parry, Dr Rulian Jing, Dr D. Z. Skinner, Prof. A. S. Ross, Dr Ian Batey, Dr Trust Beta, Prof. Frank Ordon, Prof. Z. A. Pretorius, Prof. Hermann Buerstmayr, Prof. James Anderson, Prof. Stephen Wegulo, Dr Indu Sharma, Dr Marion O. Harris, Prof. Sanford D. Eigenbrode, Dr Abie Horrocks, Dr Neil Harker, Jane Rogers, Rudi Appels, Catherine Feuillet, Ian Mackay, Malcolm Hawkesford, João Paulo Pennacchi, Luis Robledo-Arratia, Elizabete Carmo-Silva, Xinguo Mao, Delong Yang, Victoria Ndolo, Albrecht Serfling, Doris Kopahnke, Antje Habekuss, Fluturë Novakazi, M. Ayliffe, R. L. Bowden, L. A. Boyd, R. M. DePauw, Y. Jin, R. E. Knox, R. A. McIntosh, R. F. Park, R. Prins, E. S. Lagudah, Volker Mohler, Mohan Kohli, Pramod Prasad, Subhash C. Bhardwaj, J. Jacob, Dr P. R. Brown, Guiping Yan, Kirk Anderson, Frank Peairs, Gary Hein, Steven Xu, Sarina Macfadyen, Melanie Davidson, Paul Horne, Jessica Page, John O'Donovan, Breanne Tidemann, M El-Bouhssini, Prof Beat Keller, Dr Alison R. Bentley
• ISBN: 9781786760180
• Publisher: Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing
• Publication: June 30, 2017
• Imprint: Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing
• Language: English

• Discusses ways of ensuring genetic diversity, advances in wheat breeding and their use to improve properties such as drought resistance and cold tolerance;
• Summarises research on factors affecting nutritional and other aspects of wheat quality;
• Reviews advances in understanding wheat pests and diseases together with ways of controlling them such as disease-resistant varieties, integrated pest and weed management