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The lentil : botany, production and uses /

This book provides a comprehensive review of current lentil research. It contains 26 chapters covering topics on lentil global production, supply and demand; origin, phylogeny, domestication and spread; plant morphology, anatomy and growth habit; agroecology and adaptation; genetic resources collect...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2009.
Subjects:
Lentils.
Lentils > Research.
Food Economics, (New March 2000)
Supply, Demand and Prices.
Field Crops, (New March 2000)
Forage and Fodder Crops, (New March 2000)
Plant Breeding and Genetics.
Plant Water Relations.
Plant Production.
Plant Cropping Systems.
Weeds and Noxious Plants.
Viral, Bacterial and Fungal Diseases of Plants, (New March 2000)
Plant Pests, (New March 2000)
Environmental Tolerance of Plants.
Soil Biology.
Soil Fertility.
Biological Resources (Plant)
Crop Produce.
Food Processing (General)
Non-food/Non-feed Plant Products.
Composition and Quality of Non-food/Non-feed Plant Products.
Plant Ecology.
Molecular Biology and Molecular Genetics, (Discontinued March 2000, Reinstated and Revised June 2002)
Taxonomy and Evolution.
Lens culinaris.
Adaptation.
Characterization.
Conservation.
Crop production.
Crop yield.
Cropping systems.
Cultivars.
Demand.
Documentation.
Domestication.
Drought resistance.
Food preparation.
Food processing.
Food supply.
Genetic improvement.
Habit.
Improved varieties.
Mechanization.
Nitrogen fixation.
Origin.
Pest control.
Phylogeny.
Plant anatomy.
Plant breeding.
Plant disease control.
Plant diseases.
Plant ecology.
Plant genetic resources.
Plant morphology.
Plant pests.
Plant water relations.
Postharvest treatment.
Reviews.
Seed quality.
Soil fertility.
Soil management.
Spread.
Stability.
Taxonomy.
Water use efficiency.
Weed control.
Weeds.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / W. Erskine, F.J. Muehlbauer, A. Sarker and B. Sharma
  • Global production, supply and demand / W. Erskine
  • Origin, phylogeny, domestication and spread / J.I. Cubero, M. Pérez de la Vega and R. Fratini
  • Plant morphology, anatomy and growth habit / M. C. Saxena
  • Agroecology and crop adaptation / M. Materne and K.H.M Siddique
  • Genetic resources : collection, characterization, conservation and documentation / B.J. Furman, C. Coyne, B. Redden, S.K. Sharma and M. Vishnyakova
  • Genetics of economic traits / B. Sharma
  • Genetic enhancement for yield and yield stability / A. Sarker, A. Aydogan, S. Chandra, M. Kharrat and S. Sabaghpour
  • Breeding for short season environments / M. Matiur Rahman, A. Sarker, S. Kumar, A. Ali, N.K. Yadav and M. Lutfor Rahman
  • Improvement in developed countries / F.J. Muehlbauer, M. Mihov, A. Vandenberg, A. Tullu and M. Materne
  • Advances in molecular research / R. Ford, B. Mustafa, M. Baum and P.N. Rajesh
  • Breeding and management to minimize the effects of drought and improve water use efficiency / R. Shrestha, K.H.M. Siddique, D.W. Turner and N.C. Turner
  • Soil nutrient management / S.S. Yadav, D.L. McNeil, M. Andrews, C. Chen, J. Brand, G. Singh, B.G. Shivakumar and B. Gangaiah
  • Cropping systems and production agronomy / M. Ali, K.K. Singh, S.C. Pramanik and M. Omar Ali
  • Biological nitrogen fixation and soil health improvement / M.A. Quinn
  • Mechanization / J. Diekmann and Y. Al-Saleh
  • Diseases and their management / W. Chen, A.K. Basandrai, D. Basandrai, S. Banniza, B. Bayaa, L. Buchwaldt, J. Davidson, R. Larsen, D. Rubiales and P.W.J. Taylor
  • Insect pests and their management / R. Ujagir and O.M. Byrne
  • Virus diseases and their control / S.G. Kumari, R. Larsen, K.M. Makkouk and M. Bashir
  • Weed management / J.P. Yenish, J. Brand, M. Pala and A. Haddad
  • Parasitic weeds / D. Rubiales, M. Fernández-Aparicio and A. Haddad
  • Seed quality and alternative seed delivery systems / Z. Bishaw, M. Makkawi and A. Aziz Niane
  • Nutritional and health-beneficial quality / M.A. Grusak
  • Postharvest processing and value addition / Albert Vandenberg
  • Food preparation and use / R.S. Raghuvanshi and D.P. Singh
  • The impact of improvement research : the case of Bangladesh and Ethiopia / A.A. Aw-Hassan, S. Regassa, Q.M. Shafi qul Islam and A. Sarker.

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