Crop Improvement

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Crop Improvement is written by Khalid Rehman Hakeem and published by Springer Science & Business Media. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1461470285 (ISBN 10) and 9781461470281 (ISBN 13).

The improvement of crop species has been a basic pursuit since cultivation began thousands of years ago. To feed an ever increasing world population will require a great increase in food production. Wheat, corn, rice, potato and few others are expected to lead as the most important crops in the world. Enormous efforts are made all over the world to document as well as use these resources. Everybody knows that the introgression of genes in wheat provided the foundation for the “Green Revolution”. Later also demonstrated the great impact that genetic resources have on production. Several factors are contributing to high plant performance under different environmental conditions, therefore an effective and complementary use of all available technological tools and resources is needed to meet the challenge.