Overview
- Contains all the basic and updated information on the state of the art of breeding grain legumes
- Provides crop-specific chapters devoted to the most produced and consumed worldwide grain legume crops
- Covers legume crop origins and evolution, genetic resources, breeding achievements, specific goals and techniques, including the potential and actual integration of new technologies
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Handbook of Plant Breeding (HBPB, volume 10)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Antonio M. De Ron is Research Professor at the Misión Biológica de Galicia (MBG), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Pontevedra, Spain. He received both his graduate and doctorate in Biology from the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC, Spain). Initially he worked as a postgraduate student in plant protection at the National Institute for Agricultural Research (INIA, Spain). In 1988, Prof De Ron gained a staff position as scientist at the MBG working on legume genetics, germplasm and breeding and he is currently the leader of the Biology of Agrosystems Research Group. He was also part-time lecturer of genetics and breeding at the USC. Currently he is also serving as Leader of the Protein Crops Working Group of the European Association for Research on Plant Breeding (EUCARPIA, The Netherlands). He has published many scientific articles, books and monographs, as well as several educational publications. Prof De Ron has won awards for his work and is well recognized in the international scientific community for his achievements.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Grain Legumes
Editors: Antonio M. De Ron
Series Title: Handbook of Plant Breeding
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2797-5
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-2796-8Published: 29 August 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-4547-4Published: 22 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-2797-5Published: 27 August 2015
Series ISSN: 2363-8478
Series E-ISSN: 2363-8486
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 438
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 27 illustrations in colour
Topics: Plant Breeding/Biotechnology, Plant Anatomy/Development, Plant Genetics and Genomics