Beschreibung:
This book examines the development of innovative modern methodologies towards augmenting conventional plant breeding, in individual crops, for the production of new crop varieties under the increasingly limiting environmental and cultivation factors to achieve sustainable agricultural production, enhanced food security, in addition to providing raw materials for innovative industrial products and pharmaceuticals. This is Vol 6, subtitled Industrial and Food Crops, which consists of two parts. Included in Part I are 11 industrial plant species utilized as sources of raw materials for the production of industrial products including pulp and wood crops (acacia), fiber (cotton, jute and ramie), rubber (guayule and rubber tree), oil (jojoba and flax), biofuels and pharmaceutical (agave) and sugar source (sugarcane). Part II covers 7 food plants selected for their utilization in food industries for the production of chocolate (cacao), cooking oil (oil palm, safflower, sesame and sunflower) and natural flavors and aroma (saffron and vanilla). This volume is contributed by 60 internationally reputable scientists from 14 countries. Each chapter comprehensively reviews the modern literature on the subject and reflects the authors own experience.
This book examines the development of innovative modern methodologies towards augmenting conventional plant breeding, in individual crops, for the production of new crop varieties under the increasingly limiting environmental and cultivation factors to achieve sustainable agricultural production, enhanced food security, in addition to providing raw materials for innovative industrial products and pharmaceuticals. This is Vol 6, subtitled Industrial and Food Crops, which consists of two parts. Included in Part I are 11 industrial plant species utilized as sources of raw materials for the production of industrial products including pulp and wood crops (acacia), fiber (cotton, jute and ramie), rubber (guayule and rubber tree), oil (jojoba and flax), biofuels and pharmaceutical (agave) and sugar source (sugarcane). Part II covers 7 food plants selected for their utilization in food industries for the production of chocolate (cacao), cooking oil (oil palm, safflower, sesame and sunflower) and natural flavors and aroma (saffron and vanilla). This volume is contributed by 60 internationally reputable scientists from 14 countries. Each chapter comprehensively reviews the modern literature on the subject and reflects the authors own experience.
Preface.- About the Editors.- Contributors.- Part I. Industrial Crops.- 1. Genetics and Breeding of Tropical Acacias for Forest Products: Acacia mangium, A. auriculiformis and A. crassicarpa; Arif Nirsatmanto, Sri Sunarti.- 2. Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) Breeding Strategies; Saeed Rauf et al.- 3. CRISPR/Cas9: A New Genome Editing Tool to Accelerate Cotton (Gossypium spp.) Breeding; Muhammad N. Sattar et al.- 4. Jute (Corchorus spp.) Breeding; Liwu Zhang et al.- 5. Ramie (Boehmeria nivea L. Gaud) Genetic Improvement; Pratik Satya et al.- 6. Genetic Improvement of Guayule (Parthenium argentatum A. Gray): An Alternative Rubber Crop; Hussein Abdel-Haleem et al.- 7. Biotechnological Advances in Rubber Tree (Hevea brasiliensis Muell. Arg.) Breeding; Sankaran Sobha et al.- 8. Genetics and Breeding of Jojoba [Simmondsia chinensis (Link) Schneider]; Mohamed M.A. Khairi.- 9. Flax (Linum usitatissimum L.) Genomics and Breeding; Frank M. You et al.- 10. Breeding Strategies to Improve Production of Agave (Agave spp.); Kelly M. Monja-Mio et al.- 11. Sugarcane (Saccharum spp.): Breeding and Genomics; Shriram J. Mirajkar et al.- Part II. Food Crops.- 12. Cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) Breeding; Frances Bekele, Wilbert Phillips-Mora.- 13. Oil Palm (Elaeis spp.) Breeding in Malaysia; Fadila Ahmad Malike et al.- 14. Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) Breeding; Pooran Golkar, Somayeh Karimi.- 15. Advances in Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) Breeding; Swapan K. Tripathy et al.- 16. Breeding Strategies for Sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) Genetic Improvement; Saeed Rauf.- 17. Saffron (Crocus sativus L.) Breeding: Opportunities and Challenges; Majid Shokrpour.- 18. Vanilla (Vanilla spp.) Breeding; Alan H. Chambers.- Index.
