relation: http://oar.icrisat.org/59/
title: Genomics Interventions in Crop Breeding  for Sustainable Agriculture
creator: Kulwal, P
creator: Thudi, M
creator: Varshney, R K
subject: Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
description: There has been significant improvement in production and productivity of  important cereal crops globally as a consequence of the “Green Revolution” and other  initiatives (1). However, today the stage has reached that the available traditional  methods of crop improvement are not sufficient to provide enough and staple food grains  to the constantly growing world population (2). This situation is projected to be worse by  the year 2050 especially in context of climate change (3). In other words, the  conventional plant breeding practices may not able to achieve the sustainability in today’s  agriculture....
publisher: Springer
contributor: Meyers, R A
date: 2011
type: Book Section
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://oar.icrisat.org/59/1/merged_document.pdf
identifier:   Kulwal, P and Thudi, M and Varshney, R K  (2011) Genomics Interventions in Crop Breeding for Sustainable Agriculture.   In:  Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology.   Springer.  ISBN 978-0-387-89469-0    (In Press)  
relation: http://www.springer.com/physics/book/978-0-387-89469-0