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Grasses --- -Forage plants --- -Tropical crops --- Pasture plants --- -#ABIB:FAOdeposit --- Pasture crops --- Plants --- Plantation crops --- Tropical agriculture --- Agriculture --- Crops --- Field crops --- Tropical plants --- Feeds --- Pastures --- Agrostology --- Graminaceae --- Gramineae --- Grass family (Plants) --- Herbage --- Poaceae --- Cyperales --- Forage plants --- Grasslands --- Hay --- Lawns --- Meadows --- grasslands --- tropical regions --- agriculture --- economic botany --- agronomy --- pasture plants --- Tropical crops --- #ABIB:FAOdeposit --- Grasses - Tropics --- Pasture plants - Tropics --- Forage plants - Tropics

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Legumes --- Tropical crops --- Tropics --- Legumes. --- Tropical crops. --- Plant and Crop Sciences. Crops --- Tropics. --- Protein Crops. --- #ABIB:atte --- Plantation crops --- Tropical agriculture --- Agriculture --- Crops --- Field crops --- Tropical plants --- Bean family (Plants) --- Fabaceae --- Faboideae --- Leguminosae --- Lotoideae --- Papilionaceae --- Papilionatae --- Papilionoideae --- Pea family (Plants) --- Pulse crops --- Pulse family (Plants) --- Rosales --- Legumes - Tropics

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This book provides a fresh, updated perspective of the current status and perspectives in genetic improvement of a diverse array of tropical crops. The first part covers aspects which are relevant across crops, namely how to maximize the use of genetic information through modern bioinformatic approaches and how to use statistics as a tool to sustain increased genetic gains and breeding efficiency. The second part of the book provides an updated view of some seed-propagated crops, such as rice, maize and oil palm, as well as crops propagated through vegetative means such as sweet potato, cassava, banana and sugarcane. Each chapter addresses the main breeding objectives, markets served, current breeding approaches, biotechnology, genetic progress observed, and in addition a glimpse into the future for each of these selected and important tropical crops.

Life sciences. --- Trees. --- Plant breeding. --- Life Sciences. --- Plant Breeding/Biotechnology. --- Plant Genetics and Genomics. --- Tree Biology. --- Crop improvement. --- Tropical crops --- Genetics. --- Plantation crops --- Tropical agriculture --- Agriculture --- Crops --- Field crops --- Tropical plants --- Improvement, Crop --- Improvement --- Plant genetics. --- Dendrology --- Nursery stock --- Woody plants --- Arboriculture --- Forests and forestry --- Timber --- Plants --- Genetics --- Breeding

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The tropics are the source of many of our familiar fruits, vegetables, oils, and spice, as well as such commodities as rubber and wood. Moreover, other tropical fruits and vegetables are being introduced into our markets to offer variety to our diet. Now, as tropical forests are increasingly threatened, we face a double-fold crisis: not only the loss of the plants but also rich pools of potentially useful genes. Wild populations of crop plants harbor genes that can improve the productivity and disease resistance of cultivated crops, many of which are vital to developing economies and to global commerce. Eight chapters of this book are devoted to a variety of tropical crops-beverages, fruit, starch, oil, resins, fuelwood, fodder, spices, timber, and nuts-the history of their domestication, their uses today, and the known extent of their gene pools, both domesticated and wild. Drawing on broad research, the authors also consider conservation strategies such as parks and reserves, corporate holdings, gene banks and tissue culture collections, and debt-for-nature swaps. They stress the need for a sensitive balance between conservation and the economic well-being of local populations. If economic growth is part of the conservation effort, local populations and governments will be more strongly motivated to save their natural resources. Distinctly practical and soundly informative, this book provides insight into the overwhelming abundance of tropical forests, an unsettling sense of what we may lose if they are destroyed, and a deep appreciation for the delicate relationships between tropical forest plants and people around the world.

Forest germplasm resources conservation --- Forest products --- Tree crops --- Tropical crops. --- Conservation of forest genetic resources --- Forest genetic resources conservation --- Forest conservation --- Germplasm resources conservation --- Forest production --- Botany, Economic --- Commercial products --- Raw materials --- Forest farming --- Agriculture --- Crops --- Fruit trees --- Nut trees --- Plants --- Trees --- Agroforestry --- Field crops --- Forests and forestry --- Horticultural crops --- Plantation crops --- Tropical agriculture --- Tropical plants

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Irrigation has been used for thousands of years to maximize the performance, efficiency and profitability of crops and it is a science that is constantly evolving. This potential for improved crop yields has never been more important as population levels and demand for food continue to grow. Recognising the need for a coherent and accessible review of international irrigation research, this book examines the factors influencing water productivity in individual crops. It focuses on nine key plantation/industrial crops on which millions of people in the tropics and subtropics depend for their livelihoods (banana, cocoa, coconut, coffee, oil palm, rubber, sisal, sugar cane and tea). Linking crop physiology, agronomy and irrigation practices, this is a valuable resource for planners, irrigation engineers, agronomists and producers concerned with the international need to improve water productivity in agriculture in the face of increased pressure on water resources.

Tropical crops. --- Crops and water. --- Irrigation farming. --- Irrigated agriculture --- Irrigated farming --- Irrigation agriculture --- Agriculture --- Arid regions agriculture --- Irrigation --- Crops and water --- Agrohydrology --- Crop-water relationships --- Water and crops --- Water-crop relationships --- Plant-water relationships --- Water in agriculture --- Irrigation farming --- Plantation crops --- Tropical agriculture --- Crops --- Field crops --- Tropical plants