Accelerated Plant Breeding, Volume 1 Cereal Crops
Plant improvement has shifted its focus from yield, quality and disease resistance to factors that will enhance commerical export, such as early maturity, shelf life and better processing quality. Conventional plant breeding methods aiming at the improvem
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erated Plant Breeding, Volume 1 Cereal Crops
Accelerated Plant Breeding, Volume 1
Satbir Singh Gosal • Shabir Hussain Wani Editors
Accelerated Plant Breeding, Volume 1 Cereal Crops
Editors Satbir Singh Gosal Punjab Agricultural University Ludhiana, Punjab, India
Shabir Hussain Wani Mountain Research Center for Field Crops Khudwani Sher-E-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India
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This book is dedicated to Dr. Gurdev Singh Khush—An acknowledged hero of rice revolution.
Dr. Gurdev Singh Khush
Dr. G.S. Khush was born in a small village Rurkee of district Jalandhar, Punjab, India. He obtained B.Sc. degree in 1955 from Government Agricultural College (now Punjab Agricultural University) Ludhiana and Ph.D. in 1960 from the University of California, Davis, USA. Dr. Khush is a world-renowned Geneticist and Plant Breeder who worked at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Manila, Philippines for 35 years. He has made enormous contributions to rice genetics and breeding. He is considered the main architect of green revolution in rice. More than 300 rice varieties (including mega varieties IR36 and IR 64), developed under his leadership, have been grown on 60% of the world’s rice land. World rice production increased from 257 million tons in 1966 to 600 million tons in 2000 and most of the rice growing countries became self-sufficient in rice. He has visited more than 60 rice growing countries to observe rice research and production
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