Summerfield

World Crops: Cool Season Food Legumes

A Global Perspective of the Problems and Prospects for Crop Improvement in Pea, Lentil, Faba Bean and Chickpea
Herausgegeben:Summerfield, R. J.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The genesis of the International Food Legume Research Conference (IFLRC) can be traced back to 1983 - and so this Volume, the Proceedings of that Conference, has had a gestation period of close to five years. Professor Norman Simmonds, the perennial Book Review Editor of Experimental Agriculture, has expressed the opinion (vol. 22, p. 201, 1986) that "Many symposial volumes are just plain awful!" Elsewhere (Nature vol. 312, pp. 201-2, 1984), Anthony Watkinson - then a Commissioning Editor at Oxford University Press has described several reasons which have led him to believe that "Conference proceedings - symposia - are generally disliked . . . . To put it mildly, this type of publication has a bad name". The problems, from an author's perspective, of contributing to any many-authored publication are aired in an exchange of correspondence in Biologist (vol. 30, pp. 123 and 180, 1983; and vol. 31, pp. 3 and 69,1984). And from the editor's viewpoint, D. J. Weatherall - then NuffieldProfessor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Oxford - has described (Nature vol. 317, p.

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Produktdetails

• Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture 5
• Verlag: Springer / Springer Netherlands
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-90-247-3641-6
• 1988.
• Seitenzahl: 1230
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 1988
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm
• Gewicht: 1810g
• ISBN-13: 9789024736416
• ISBN-10: 9024736412
• Artikelnr.: 25920909

Inhaltsangabe

International programmes.- Genetic resources.- Cropping systems.- Management and tillage.- Harvesting and storage.- Processing and utilization.- Economics, marketing and policies.- Biotic limitations.- Integrated pest management.- Rhizobium and N2 fixation.- Carbon and nitrogen economy of nodulated legumes.- Environmental stress.- Physiology.- Breeding and biotechnology.- Regional reports.- Retrospect and prospect.- Index of Authors.