Author: N. MarissenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cut flowers
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Postharvest Physiology of Ornamental Plants
Author: N. MarissenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cut flowers
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Postharvest Physiology of Ornamental Plants
Author: Terril A. NellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cut flowers
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Proceedings of the IXth International Symposium on Postharvest Quality Of Ornamental Plants
Author: Carl-Otto OttosenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cut flowers
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Ornamental Crops
Author: Johan Van HuylenbroeckPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319906984
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 887
Book Description
Ornamental plants are economically important worldwide. Both growers and consumers ask continuously for new, improved varieties. Although there are numerous ornamental species, ornamental plant breeding and plant breeding research is mainly limited to some major species. This book focuses on the recent advances and achievements in ornamental plant breeding. The first part of the book focuses on plant traits and breeding techniques that are typical for ornamental plants. Eminent research groups write these general chapters. For plant traits like flower colour or shape, breeding for disease resistance and vase or shelf life are reviewed. General technical plant breeding chapters deal with mutation breeding, polyploidisation, in vitro breeding techniques and new developments in molecular techniques. The second part of the book consists of crop-specific chapters. Here all economically major ornamental species are handled together with selected representative species from different plant groups (cut flowers, pot plants, woody ornamental plants). In these crop-specific chapters, the main focus is on recent scientific achievements over the last decade.
Quality of Ornamental Crops: Effect of Genotype, Preharvest, and Improved Production Chains on Quality Attributes of Ornamental Crops
Author: Patricia Duarte De Oliveira PaivaPublisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 288974678X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Approaches for Enhancing Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants
Author: Mirza HasanuzzamanPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1351104713
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Plants are frequently exposed to unfavorable and adverse environmental conditions known as abiotic stressors. These factors can include salinity, drought, heat, cold, flooding, heavy metals, and UV radiation which pose serious threats to the sustainability of crop yields. Since abiotic stresses are major constraints for crop production, finding the approaches to enhance stress tolerance is crucial to increase crop production and increase food security. This book discusses approaches to enhance abiotic stress tolerance in crop plants on a global scale. Plants scientists and breeders will learn how to further mitigate plant responses and develop new crop varieties for the changing climate.
Post-harvest Handling of Flowers, 1970-1987
Author: Jayne T. MacLeanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flowers
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Quick Bibliography Series
Author: Simulation Models, GIS and Nonpoint-source Pollution
Author: David HollowayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural pollution
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
Crop Traits for Defense Against Pests and Disease: Durability, Breakdown and Future Prospects, 2nd Edition
Author: Alison J. KarleyPublisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 2889458113
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
With global populations expected to exceed 9.2 billion by 2050 and available land and water resources devoted to crop production dwindling, we face significant challenges to secure global food security. Only 12 plant species feed 80% of the world’s population, with just three crop species (wheat, rice and maize) accounting for food consumed by 50% of the global population. Annual losses to crop pests and pathogens are significant, thought to be equivalent to that required to feed a billion people, at a time when crop productivity has plateaued. With pesticide applications becoming increasingly unfeasible on cost, efficacy and environmental grounds, there is growing interest in exploiting plant resistance and tolerance traits for crop protection. Indeed, mankind has been selectively breeding plants for desirable traits for thousands of years. However, resistance and tolerance traits have not always been those most desired, and in many cases have been inadvertently lost during the domestication process: crops have been effectively ‘disarmed by domestication’. Moreover, mechanistic understanding of how resistance and tolerance traits operate is often incomplete, which makes identifying the right combination for crop protection difficult. We aimed to address this Research Topic by inviting authors to contribute their knowledge of appropriate resistance and tolerance traits, explore what is known about durability and breakdown of defensive traits and, finally, asking what are the prospects for exploiting these traits for crop protection. The research topic summarised in this book addresses some of the most important issues in the future sustainability of global crop production.