Books in the Developments in Plant Genetics & Breeding series

Aims to cover the complex issue of diversification in time and space in a single crop: barley. This book describes the entire variation pattern in different sets of characters and an attempt is made for a synthesis to a holistic picture. It also proposes ways to use the achievements of diversity studies in future research and breeding programmes.

Surveys a range of general aspects of chromosome research on plants. This book deals with cytogenetics of plant materials including legumes, vegetable and oil crops, sugar crops, forage crops, fibre crops, medicinal crops and ornamentals.

Brassica crop species and their allies are important sources of edible roots, stems, leaves, buds and inflorescences, as well as of edible or industrial oils, condiments and forage. This book combines and presents both the basic and applied biological aspects of the Brassica species.

Plant biotechnology offers important opportunities for agriculture, horticulture, and the pharmaceutical and food industry. This work discusses the production of transgenic plants resistant to biotic and abiotic stress, the use of transgenic plants as bioreactors, and the use of plant genomics for genetic improvement and gene cloning.