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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Molecular improvement of cereal crops
  name:
    name part: Vasil, I. K.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 1999
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (500 pages)
  abstract: From the pre-historic era to modern times, cereal grains have been the most important source of human nutrition, and have helped sustain the increasing population and the development of human civilization. In order to meet the food needs of the 21st century, food production must be doubled by the year 2025, and nearly tripled by 2050. Such enormous increases in food productivity cannot be brought about by relying entirely on conventional breeding methods, especially on less land per capita, with poor quality and quantity of water, and under rapidly deteriorating environmental conditions. Complementing and supplementing the breeding of major food crops, such as the cereals, which together account for 66% of the world food supply, with molecular breeding and genetic manipulation may well provide a grace period of about 50 years in which to control population growth and achieve sustainable development. In this volume, leading world experts on cereal biotechnology describe the production and commercialization of the first generation of transgenic cereals designed to substantially reduce or prevent the enormous losses to cereal productivity caused by competition with weeds, and by various pests and pathogens, which is an important first step in that direction.
  note: edited by Indra K. Vasil.
  note: Electronic resource.
  subject:
    topic: Grain
    topic: Genetic engineering
  subject:
    topic: Grain
    topic: Molecular genetics
  subject:
    topic: Transgenic plants
  subject:
    topic: Crop improvement
  classification: SB189.53
  classification: 633.1/04233
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Advances in cellular and molecular biology of plants ; 5
  identifier: 9789401148023 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9401148023 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: I9W
    record creation date: 121227
    record change date: 20260422164027.3
    record identifier: in00003545590
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng