Oil Crops
Oil Crop Breeding Editors: Johann Vollmann and Istvan Rajcan Vegetable oils have gained in importance during the past few decades resulting in the doubling of the world oil crop production in the last 25 years. Oil crops have been increasingly used as raw
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HANDBOOK OF PLANT BREEDING Editors-in-Chief: JAIME PROHENS, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain FERNANDO NUEZ, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain MARCELO J. CARENA, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, USA Volume 1 Vegetables I: Asteraceae, Brassicaceae, Chenopodicaceae, and Cucurbitaceae Edited by Jaime Prohens and Fernando Nuez Volume 2 Vegetables II: Fabaceae, Liliaceae, Solanaceae and Umbelliferae Edited by Jaime Prohens and Fernando Nuez Volume 3 Cereals Edited by Marcelo J. Carena Volume 4 Oil Crops Edited by Johann Vollmann and Istvan Rajcan
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Oil Crops
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Editors Johann Vollmann Institute of Agronomy & Plant Breeding BOKU-University of Natural Resources & Applied Life Sciences Gregor Mendel Str. 33 1180 Vienna Austria [email protected]
Istvan Rajcan Department of Plant Agriculture University of Guelph 50 Stone Road W. ON N1G 2W1 Crop Science Bldg. Canada [email protected]
ISBN 978-0-387-77593-7 e-ISBN 978-0-387-77594-4 DOI 10.1007/978-0-387-77594-4 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2009930437 # Springer ScienceþBusiness Media, LLC 2009 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer ScienceþBusiness Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Foreword
When one is privileged to participate long enough in a professional capacity, certain trends may be observed in the dynamics of how challenges are met or how problems are solved. Agricultural research is no exception in view of how the plant sciences have moved forward in the past 30 years. For example, the once grand but now nearly forgotten art of whole plant physiology has given way almost completely to the more sophisticated realm of molecular biology. What once was the American Society of Plant Physiologists’ is now the American Society of Plant Molecular Biology; a democratic decision to indemnify efforts to go beyond the limits of the classical science and actually begin to understand the underlying biological basis for genetic regulation of metabolic mechanisms in plants. Yet, as new technologies open windows of light on the inner workings of biological processes, one might reminisce with faint nostalgia on days long past when the artisans of plant physiology, biochemistry, analytical chemistry and o
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