%0 Book Section
%A Kulwal, P L
%A Thudi, M
%A Varshney, R K
%B Sustainable Food Production
%C New York
%D 2013
%E Christou, P
%E Savin, R
%F icrisat:6979
%I Springer
%K Crop breeding, Sustainable agriculture, Genomics  interventions
%P 501-513
%T Crop breeding for sustainable agriculture, genomics  interventions in
%U http://oar.icrisat.org/6979/
%X The goal of agricultural science is to increase crop  productivity coupled with the quality of the products,  and maintain the environment [1]. Food security is  a growing concern worldwide, and more than 1 billion  people are estimated to lack sufficient dietary energy  availability [2]. The issue of “food security” has become  so important that prominent scientific journals,  including Science, have also published a special issue  on this subject recently (February 12, 2010 issue)...