Book ID: 91434
Kole, Chittaranjan (ed.)
Technical Crops. 2007. (Genome Mapping and Molecular Breeding in Plants, Volume 6). 2 col. illustr. 33 b/w illustr. 340 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.
Technical Crops includes plants of great agricultural importance. Onechapter is devoted to cotton, the most important fiber crop on whichsignificant progress in molecular genetic research has been made. Reviews on oil palm, coffee, tea, cocoa and rubber describe traditionalbreeding and preliminary molecular results. Chapters on forage crops,ornamentals, and medicinal and aromatic plants each cover a large number of crops and may serve as road maps for further molecular research.