Accelerated Plant Breeding, Volume 2 Vegetable 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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elerated Plant Breeding, Volume 2 Vegetable Crops
Accelerated Plant Breeding, Volume 2
Satbir Singh Gosal • Shabir Hussain Wani Editors
Accelerated Plant Breeding, Volume 2 Vegetable Crops
Editors Satbir Singh Gosal Former Director of Research Punjab Agricultural University Ludhiana, Punjab, India
Shabir Hussain Wani Mountain Research Centre for Field Crops SKUAST-Kashmir Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India
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Thomas A. Lumpkin, PhD
7271 W. Mercer Way Mercer Island, WA 98040 Tel. 1-206-409-7345 Email: [email protected] Dr Lumpkin has specialized in research, education, international development and administration, originally within the areas of Asian agronomy and horticulture, ethnobotany, and marketing systems, and later within the international agriculture development community. His career evolved out of life experiences including growing up on a small farm in Eastern Washington,
Peace Corps in India, army in Japan and higher education at WSU and University of Hawaii, including field research in mainland China. He is widely known among the CGIAR, international agriculture donor agencies and national agriculture systems in the developed and developing world for his leadership in the rebuilding of two international agriculture research institutes (CIMMYT – International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center in Mexico and AVRDC – World Vegetable Center in Taiwan); establishment of a new international institute, i.e., The Borlaug Institute for South Asia; his books and publications on Azolla, Azu
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