Crop Genetic Resources for Today and Tomorrow

Herausgeber: Frankel, O. H.; Hawkes, J. G.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This 1975 book deals with one of the world's fastest disappearing natural resources - the invaluable reservoir of genetic variability in our cultivated plants which have evolved since our forebears began to domesticate them some 10,000 years ago. The preservation of these 'genetic resources', as they have come to be called, is vital to mankind. Without them the geneticists and plant breeders cannot breed the new varieties needed to feed the world's population by providing more disease-resistant strains of our food plants. This volume explores topics such as how to collect and preserve this variation. It ends with a section on how these activities are planned on a world scale through the medium of FAO and other international agencies, and with the participation of scientists from developed and developing countries. This book will be of use as an intelligently written work of much historic value.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 514
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 826g
• ISBN-13: 9780521179706
• ISBN-10: 052117970X
• Artikelnr.: 32302034

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors; 1. Genetic resources - the past ten years and the
next O. H. Frankel and J. G. Hawkes; Part I. Genetic Variation in Plant
Populations: 2. Population structure and the effects of breeding system S.
K. Jain; 3. Population structure and the effects of isolation and selection
A. D. Bradshaw; 4. Optimum sampling strategies in genetic conservation D.
R. Marshall and A. H. D. Brown; 5. Sampling germplasm in a center of
diversity: an example of disease resistance in Ethiopian barley C. O.
Qualset; Part II. Exploration; Section 1. Exploration Targets: 6. Genetic
resources survey as a basis for exploration O. H. Frankel; Section 2.
Practical Problems in Exploration: 7. Seed crops J. R. Harlan; 8.
Vegetatively propagated crops J. G. Hawkes; 9. Tree crops J. T. Sykes;
Section 3. National and Regional Exploration Activities: 10. Recent plant
exploration in the USA H. L. Hyland; 11. Plant exploration in the USSR D.
D. Brezhnev; 12. Recent and proposed exploration activities of the Izmir
Centre, Turkey H. A. Sencer; 13. Exploration and survey in rice T. T.
Chang; 14. Potato collecting expeditions in Chile, Bolivia and Peru, and
the genetic erosion of indigenous cultivars C. Ochoa; 15. Recent cocoa
collecting expeditions J. Soria; Part III. Evaluation Problems: 16. The
search for disease and insect resistance in rice germplasm T. T. Chang, S.
H. Ou, M. D. Pathak, K. C. Ling and H. E. Kauffman; 17. Evaluation of
sources of disease resistance A. Dinoor; 18. Evaluation of material for
frost and drought resistance in wheat breeding V. F. Dorofeev; 19. The
identification of high-quality protein variants and their use in crop plant
improvement D. E. Alexander; 20. Screening for oils and fats in plants G.
Röbbelen; 21. Secondary metabolites and crop plants R. Henauer; Part IV.
Conservation and Storage: 22. Problems of long-term storage of seed and
pollen for genetic resources conservation E. H. Roberts; 23. Genetic
maintenance of seeds in imbibed storage T. A. Villiers; 24. Some factors
contributing to the survival of crop seeds cooled to the temperature of
liquid nitrogen A. Sakai and M. Noshiro; 25. Meristem culture techniques
for the long-term storage of cultivated plants G. Morel; 26. The problem of
genetic stability in plant tissue and cell cultures F. D'Amato; 27.
Technical aspects of tissue culture storage for genetic conservation G. G.
Henshaw; 28. Possible long-term cold storage of woody plant material B. H.
Howard; 29. The storage of germplasm of tropical roots and tubers in the
vegetative form F. W. Martin; 30. Genetic reserves S. K. Jain; Part V.
Documentation and Information Management: 31. Documentation for genetic
resources centers D. J. Rogers, B. Snoad and L. Seidewitz; 32.
Documentation and information requirements for genetic resources
application G. N. Hersh and D. J. Rogers; Part VI. Genetic Resources
Centres: 33. Crop germplasm diversity and resources in Ethiopia M. H.
Mengesha; 34. A regional plan for the collection, conservation and
evaluation of genetic resources E. Kjellqvist; 35. IRRI's role as a genetic
resources center T. T. Chang, R. L. Villareal, G. Loresto and A. T. Perez;
36. Maize germplasm banks in the Western Hemisphere W. L. Brown; 37.
Genetic resources centres - a co-operative global network O. H. Frankel;
Index.