Overview
- Up-to-date chapters contributed by academic and industry leaders
- Key technical information and breeding data on industrial crops
- Comprehensive overviews on bio products as alternative energy sources
Part of the book series: Handbook of Plant Breeding (HBPB, volume 9)
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Table of contents(19 chapters)
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Reviews
“This volume … reviews the current status of breeding efforts for numerous industrial crops, nearly 20 in all, with potential for production either on a large scale or within a narrower climatic niche. … These thorough, extensively referenced reviews serve as an excellent introduction to this diverse group of crops. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals/practitioners.” (R. M. Warner, Choice, Vol. 52 (11), July, 2015)
Editors and Affiliations
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USDA-ARS, Boston College Carroll School of Management, Fort Collins, USA
Von Mark V. Cruz, David A. Dierig
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Industrial Crops
Book Subtitle: Breeding for BioEnergy and Bioproducts
Editors: Von Mark V. Cruz, David A. Dierig
Series Title: Handbook of Plant Breeding
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1447-0
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: 978-1-4939-1446-3Published: 19 November 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-4519-1Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-1447-0Published: 17 November 2014
Series ISSN: 2363-8478
Series E-ISSN: 2363-8486
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 444
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 37 illustrations in colour
Topics: Plant Breeding/Biotechnology, Plant Sciences, Plant Genetics and Genomics