Disease Resistance in Crop Plants Molecular, Genetic and Genomic Per
Human population is escalating at an enormous pace and is estimated to reach 9.7 billion by 2050. As a result, there will be an increase in demand for agricultural production by 60–110% between the years 2005 and 2050 at the global level; the number will
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Disease Resistance in Crop Plants Molecular, Genetic and Genomic Perspectives
Disease Resistance in Crop Plants
Shabir Hussain Wani Editor
Disease Resistance in Crop Plants Molecular, Genetic and Genomic Perspectives
Editor Shabir Hussain Wani Mountain Research Centre for Field Crops Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India
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Dedication
Professor Robert McIntosh is an Australian scientist who has dedicated his life to wheat rusts and to the resistance genetics of wheat. Wheat researchers recognize him for the atlas of wheat rust resistance genes published jointly with Colin R. Wellings and Robert F. Park. Indeed, he is an inspirational figure not only for wheat researchers but also for researchers in other fields. Prof. McIntosh rooted himself to Australian agriculture from his childhood. Growing up at Gloucester in New South Wales, he spent his early years on a dairy farm.
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Prof. McIntosh has been closely associated with the University of Sydney through undergraduate and postgraduate studies (PhD, 1969) and later continuous service within the Plant Breeding Institute (PBI) for more than 60 years. He served as director of Rust Research within the PBI from 1980 to 2000. Prof. McIntosh made significant contributions to wheat rust research. His pre-molecular era studies on chromosome location and genetic linkage in wheat resulted in the documentation of 7 leaf rust resistance genes, 14 stem rust resistance genes, and 2
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