Rice is the principal food of nearly half of humankind and more than 90% of it is grown in developing countries, where problems of food security are more acute. From being a poor cousin to maize, w…
Rice is the most important food crop of the developing world and rice genetic improvement through breeding has been an effective mechanism for delivering the benefits of science and technology to h…
Plant Breeding Reviews presents state-of-the-art reviews on plant breeding and genetics covering horticultural, agronomic and forestry crops, incorporating both traditional and molecular methods. T…
This preface, though placed at the beginning, as a preface must be, should be read at the end of the book.