The World Wheat Book - a history of wheat breeding

Hardcover  1180 pages  ISBN 1898298726      £185.00

The creation of new varieties of wheat in the twentieth century has resulted from a detailed understanding of genetics combined with the practical experience of breeders throughout the world. This has been reinforced through evolving technologies with increased interaction with fertilisers, mechanisation and modern fungicides and herbicides superseding more primitive techniques. It therefore seemed timely to compile a comprehensive history of wheat across all its main areas of production. New laboratory techniques, such as in vitro culture, molecular biology and genomics, now enable the development of a greater level of understanding of the complexities, diversity, structure and function of wheat genetics. This book contains a number of sections dealing with wheats from various geographical regions, that complement discussions of the origins and genetics of wheat, genetic improvement and hybrid wheat biotechnologies as follows:

• The origin of cultivated wheat
• Genetic basis of worldwide varietal improvement
• The European wheats - Covering the wheat pools of the following countries - UK, France, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Denmark, European Russia, Italy, Romania and the Ukraine, as well as dealing with the mountain wheat pool.
• The North American wheats - Pacific northwestern wheat pool, US hard red spring wheat pool, US hard winter wheat pool, US soft winter wheat pool, Canadian wheat pool.
• The Latin American wheats - Argentinian wheat pool, Sao Paulo State Brazil wheat pool, Mexico (50 years of international wheat breeding)
• The Australian and Pacific wheats - Chinese wheat pool, Japanese wheat pool, Korean wheat pool.
• Western and Central Asian wheats - Siberian and North Kazakhstan wheat pool, Napalese wheat pool, Caucasian wheat pool, Turkish wheat gene pool
• The African wheats - Northern African wheat pool, Eastern and Southern African wheat pool
• The genetic improvement systems - Induced mutation in wheat, Wheat in vitro breeding, Apomixis for wheat improvement.
• Hybrid wheat biotechnologies - Marker systems, The contribution of genomics to wheat improvement, Genetic transformation, wheat perspectives
• Index

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