edited by Brett F. Carver
Wheat: Science and Trade is an up-to-date, practical work designed to expand the current body of knowledge on this staple crop, incorporating new information made available by genetic advances, improvements in the understanding of wheat's biology, and changes in the wheat trade industry.
Covering phylogeny and ontogeny, manipulation of the environment and optimal management, genetic improvement, and utilization and commercialization, the book focuses on the most economically significant diseases and impacts.
Contents
Section I: Making of a Wheat Plant
- Wheat evolution, domestication, and improvement
- Development of the wheat plant
- The flowering pathway in wheat
Section II: Making of Wheat Crop
- Systems-based wheat management strategies
- Diseases which challenge global wheat production—the wheat rusts
- Diseases which challenge global wheat production—root, crown, and culm rots
- Diseases which challenge global wheat production—powdery mildew and leaf and head blights
- Nematodes which challenge global wheat production
- Insects which challenge global wheat production
- Temporally and spatially dependent nitrogen management for diverse environments
- Grain yield improvement in water-limited environments
- Cutting down on weeds to cut a cleaner wheat crop
Section III: Making of a Wheat Cultivar
- Wheat breeding: Procedures and strategies
- State of QTL detection and marker-assisted selection in wheat improvement
- Genome organization and comparative genomics
- Synthetic wheat—an emerging genetic resource
- Success in wheat improvement
- Transgenic applications in wheat improvement
- Overview of wheat classification and trade
- Passing the test on wheat end-use quality
- The biochemical and molecular basis of wheat quality
- New uses for wheat and modified wheat products
- US wheat marketing system and price discovery
Index
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