Crop improvement

Biotechnological Innovations in Crop Improvement Biotechnological Innovations in Animal Productivity... 

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Stavarek, S.J. Rains, D.W. (19846) Cell culture techniques Selection and physiological studies of salt tolerance. In Salinity Tolerance in Plants Strategies for Crop Improvement, ed. R.C. Staples and G.H. Toeniessen, pp. 321-34. New York Wiley. 

Plants Strategies for Crop Improvement, ed. R.C. Staples and G. A. Toenniessen, pp. 151-70. New York John Wiley. 

Slade AJ and Knauf VC. 2005. TILLING moves beyond functional genomics into crop improvement. 

FELDMANN, K.A., Cytochrome P450s as genes for crop improvement, Curr. Opin. Plant Biol., 2001,4,165-167. 

Cover crops Improves fertility Improves water availability Nutrient recycling Reduces costs Soil erosion and runoff control Weed control Kalinova (2009) Malezieux et al. (2009) Pati et al. (2009) Runyon et al. (2009) Stagnari et al. (2009) Wu and Sardo (2009) Zuazo and Pleguezuelo (2009)... 

Voysest O, Dessert M (1991). Bean cultivars classes and commercial seed types. In van choonhoven A, Voysest O (eds) Common bean research for crop improvement. CABI and CIAT, Wallingford, UK and Cali, Colombia, pp 119-162... 

Green, M. B., G. S. Hartley, and T. F. West. (1987). Chemicals for crop improvement and pe,st management, Third edition. Oxford Pergamon Press. 

Neue HU, Lantin RS. 1994. Micronutrient toxicides and deficiencies in rice. In Yeo AR, Flowers TJ, eds. Soil Mineral Stresses Approaches to Crop Improvement. Berlin Springer-Verlag, 175-200. 

Yoshida S, Ogawa M, Suenaga K, He C. 1983. Induction and selection of salt-tolerant mutant rices by tissue culture-recent progress at IRRI. In Cell and Tissue Culture Techniques for Cereal Crop Improvement. Beijing Science Press, 237-254. 

There are no varieties of morama bean that have been developed so far. However, there are advanced crop improvement experiments that are designed to produce a variety of cultivars, namely, early maturing culti-vars, using morama that matures after about 18-24 months. Microsatellite markers (Weising et ah, 1998) have been developed and used previously. Current microsatellite markers for morama beans have been developed using a modified procedure by Zane et ah (2002). These markers will be used in marker-assisted selection (MAS) for the morama bean. 

Crop improvement studies (selection of individual plants possessing improved quality trait(s))... 

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