C. W. Smith, Robert H. Dilday

Rice

Origin, History, Technology, and Production
Herausgeber: Smith, C Wayne; Dilday, Robert H

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Thorough coverage of rice, from cultivar development to marketing

Rice: Evolution, History, Production, and Technology, the third book in the Wiley Series in Crop Science, provides unique, single-source coverage of rice, from cultivar development techniques and soil characteristics to harvesting, storage, and germplasm resources. Rice covers the plant s origins and history, physiology and genetics, production and production hazards, harvesting, processing, and products.

Comprehensive coverage includes:
Color plates of diseases, insects, and other production hazards
The latest information on pest control
Up-to-date material on marketing
A worldwide perspective of the rice industry

Rice provides detailed information in an easy-to-use format, making it valuable to scientists and researchers as well as growers, processors, and grain merchants and shippers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 664
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 188mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 1330g
• ISBN-13: 9780471345169
• ISBN-10: 0471345164
• Artikelnr.: 11094581

Autorenporträt

C. Wayne Smith, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, and Robert H. Dilday, Rice Research and Extension Center, University of Arkansas, Stuttgart, AR. C. Wayne Smith, editor of the Wiley series on Crops and co-editor of this volume of the series, received his doctorate in 1978 from the University of Tennessee and joined Texas A&M as a professor in 1986. Robert Dilday is a research geneticist with the USDA-ARS at the University of Arkansas.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface.
Contributors.
SECTION I: ORIGIN AND HISTORY.
Chapter 1.1: Origin, Domestication, and Diversification (Te-TzuChang).
Chapter 1.2: Biosystematics of the Genus Oryza (Duncan A. Vaughanand Hiroko
Morishima).
Chapter 1.3: American Rice Industry: Historical Overview ofProduction and
Marketing (Henry C. Dethloff).
Chapter 1.4: Origin and Characteristics of U.S. Rice Cultivars(David J.
Mackill and Kent S. McKenzie).
SECTION II: THE RICE PLANT.
Chapter 2.1: Rice Morphology and Development (Karen A. K.Moldenhauer and
Julia H. Gibbons).
Chapter 2.2: Rice Physiology (Paul A. Counce, David R. Gealy, andShi-Jean
Susana Sung).
Chapter 2.3: Genetics, Cytogenetics, Mutation, and Beyond (GeorgiaC.
Eizenga and J. Neil Rutger).
Chapter 2.4: Techniques for Development of New Cultivars (AnnaMyers
McClung).
Chapter 2.5: Rice Biotechnology (Thomas H. Tai).
Chapter 2.6: Studies on Rice Allelochemicals (Agnes M. Rimando andStephen
O. Duke).
SECTION III: PRODUCTION.
Chapter 3.1: Global Rice Production (Bobby Coats).
Chapter 3.2: Rice Production (Joseph E. Street and Patrick K.Bollich).
Chapter 3.3: Rice Soils: Physical and Chemical Characteristics andBehavior
(H. Don Scott, David M. Miller, and Fabrice G.Renaud).
Chapter 3.4: Soil Fertilization and Mineral Nutrition in U.S.Mechanized
Rice Culture (Richard J. Norman, Charles E. Wilson, Jr.,and Nathan A.
Slaton).
Chapter 3.5: Rice Diseases (Don Groth and Fleet Lee).
Chapter 3.6: Rice Arthropod Pests and Their Management in theUnited States
(M. O. Way).
Chapter 3.7: Rice Weed Control (Andy Kendig, Bill Williams, and C.Wayne
Smith).
Chapter 3.8: Rice Marketing (Gail L. Cramer, Kenneth B. Young, andEric J.
Wailes).
SECTION IV: PRODUCTS AND PRODUCT PROCESSING.
Chapter 4.1: Rice Harvesting (Graeme R. Quick).
Chapter 4.2: Rice Storage (Terry A. Howell, Jr.).
Chapter 4.3: Rough Rice Drying and Milling Quality (Terry J.Siebenmorgan,
Wade Yang, Rustico Bautista, and Auke Cnossen).
SECTION V: GERMPLASM RESOURCES.
Chapter 5.1: Germplasm Collection, Preservation, and Utilization(Harold E.
Bockelman, Robert H. Dilday, Wengui Yan, and Darrell M.Wesenberg).
Index.