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Plant Breeding: Past, Present and Future

By: John E. Bradshaw

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Plant Breeding: Past, Present and Future

By: John E. Bradshaw

This book aims to help plant breeders by reviewing past achievements, currently successful practices, and emerging methods and techniques. Theoretical considerations are also presented to strike the right balance between being as simple as possible but as complex as necessary. The United Nations predicts that the global human population will continue rising to 9.0 billion by 2050. World food production will need to increase between 70-100 per cent in just 40 years. First generation bio-fuels are also using crops and cropland to produce energy rather than food. In addition, land area used for agriculture may remain static or even decrease as a result of degradation and climate change, despite more land being theoretically available, unless crops can be bred which tolerate associated abiotic stresses. Lastly, it is unlikely that steps can be taken to mitigate all of the climate change predicted to occur by 2050, and beyond, and hence adaptation of farming systems and crop production will be required to reduce predicted negative effects on yields that will occur without crop adaptation. Substantial progress will therefore be required in bridging the yield gap between what is currently achieved per unit of land and what should be possible in future, with the best farming methods and best storage and transportation of food, given the availability of suitably adapted cultivars, including adaptation to climate change. My book is divided into four parts: Part I is an historical introduction; Part II deals with the origin of genetic variation by mutation and recombination of DNA; Part III explains how the mating system of a crop species determines the genetic structure of its landraces; Part IV considers the three complementary options for future progress: use of sexual reproduction in further conventional breeding, base broadening and introgression; mutation breeding; and genetically modified crops.

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Springer

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3319232851

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Potato Breeding: Theory and Practice

By: John E. Bradshaw

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Potato Breeding: Theory and Practice

By: John E. Bradshaw

The potato (Solanum tuberosum) is the world’s fourth most important food crop after maize, rice and wheat with 377 million tonnes fresh-weight of tubers produced in 2016 from 19.2 million hectares of land, in 163 countries, giving a global average yield of 19.6 t ha-1 (http://faostat.fao.org). About 62% of production (234 million tonnes) was in Asia (191), Africa (25) and Latin America (18) as a result of steady increases in recent years, particularly in China and India. As a major food crop, the potato has an important role to play in the United Nations “2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” which started on 1 January 2016 (http://faostat.fao.org). By 2030 the aim is to “ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round”. By then, the world population is expected to reach 8.5 billion and continue to increase to 9.7 billion in 2050. For potatoes, the need is to increase production and improve nutritional value during a period of climate change, a key aspect of which will be the breeding of new cultivars for a wide range of target environments and consumers. The aim of the book is to help this endeavour by providing detailed information in three parts on both the theory and practice of potato breeding. Part I deals with the history of potato improvement and with potato genetics. Part II deals with breeding objectives, divided into improving yield, quality traits and resistance to the most important diseases and pests of potatoes. Part III deals with breeding methods: first, the use of landraces and wild relatives of potato in introgression breeding, base broadening and population improvement; second, breeding clonally propagated cultivars as a way to deliver potato improvement to farmers’ fields; third, as an alternative, breeding potato cultivars for propagation through true potato seed; and fourth, gene editing and genetic transformation as ways of making further improvements to already successful and widely grown cultivars. Included are marker-assisted introgression and selection of specific alleles, genomic selection of many unspecified alleles and diploid F1 hybrid breeding.

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Springer Nature

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3030644146

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9783030644147

The Lord's Supper in the Reformed Tradition

By: John W. Riggs

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The Lord's Supper in the Reformed Tradition

By: John W. Riggs

In the Reformed tradition, the Lord's Supper is a sacrament that draws on a rich and deep tradition in its theology and practice. In this new volume in the Columbia Series in Reformed Theology, John Riggs provides a comprehensive overview of the most important Reformed theologians and confessions on the sacrament of the Lord's Supper. Riggs identifies the theology of true mystical union with Christ in the Supper as both a theological legacy the Reformed tradition inherited and a theological achievement that it refined. Ideal for studies in Reformed and liturgical theology, this is an important resource for investigating the eucharistic theology of the Reformed tradition.

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Westminster John Knox Press

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1611645980

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Veterans of Foreign Whores

Military Life Between Korea and Vietnam: a Memoir of Company C, 25Th Signal Battalion, Kaiserslautern, Germany, 1960-1964

By: John Strang

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Veterans of Foreign Whores

Military Life Between Korea and Vietnam: a Memoir of Company C, 25Th Signal Battalion, Kaiserslautern, Germany, 1960-1964

By: John Strang

Set in the politically-incorrect early 1960s, Veterans of Foreign Whores recounts the experiences of teenage soldiers and their World War II-era soldier-mentors in the U.S. Army's biggest base of American servicemen abroad, Germany's Kaiserslauternthe GIs' notorious K-Town. Not quite the heroes of the Battle of the Bulge and not yet the dispirited generation of Vietnam, the men of Company C, 25th Signal Battalion string cable across western Germanyas they imbibe the local refreshments, spar with one another and sundry, and make the acquaintance of representatives of the gentler sex. While the Berlin Wall is raised and World War III is narrowly averted with the Soviet Union over Cuba, the innocents abroad wend their way from adolescence to young maturity, maybe no wiser for their experiences but undeniably riper.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1499022689

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9781499022681

Emergency Medicine

Concepts and Clinical Practice

By: John Marx,Robert Hockberger,Ron Walls

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Emergency Medicine

Concepts and Clinical Practice

By: John Marx,Robert Hockberger,Ron Walls

In an emergency, you only have one chance...and usually very little time...to make the right decision. How can you be certain you have the knowledge you need? Through six editions, Rosen’s Emergency Medicine has set the standard in emergency medicine, offering unparalleled comprehensiveness, clarity, and authority. Now, the seventh edition places the latest knowledge at your fingertips, while a more streamlined format makes it easy to find the exact information you seek more rapidly and conveniently than ever before. Presents more than 1,200 exquisite color illustrations that accurately capture the real-life appearance of patient symptoms and diagnostic imaging findings, helping you to reach a definitive diagnosis more easily. Includes "Cardinal Presentations" sections that provide quick and easy guidance on differential diagnosis and directed testing. Presents greatly expanded coverage of emergency ultrasound and emergency gynecological disorders to place the latest knowledge at your fingertips, as well as state-of-the-art coverage of emergency ultrasound, management of sepsis, new airway devices, updated protocols for adult and pediatric cardiac arrest, STEMI and NSTEMI/ACS, DVT and PTE, and much, much more. Features a streamlined format that focuses on the most need-to-know information so you can find answers more quickly.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323076904

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9780323076906

Tempests, Poxes, Predators, and People

Stress in Wild Animals and how They Cope

By: L. Michael Romero,John C. Wingfield

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Stress in Wild Animals and how They Cope

By: L. Michael Romero,John C. Wingfield

Most physiological and behavioral mechanisms that comprise the stress response come from laboratory experiments using domesticated animals. This book summarizes work to understand stress in natural contexts. It places modern stress research into an evolutionary context and provides predictions on how wild animals might cope with human-altered habitats.

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Oxford University Press

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0195366697

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9780195366693

Teen Guides to Environmental Science

By: John F. Mongillo,Peter A. Mongillo

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Teen Guides to Environmental Science

By: John F. Mongillo,Peter A. Mongillo

5 volume set provides a comprehensive look at the current state of the environment and what needs to be done to repair the damage and move toward a sustainable society.

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Greenwood

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0313321868

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9780313321863

The Civil War in North Carolina

By: John G. Barrett

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The Civil War in North Carolina

By: John G. Barrett

Eleven battles and seventy-three skirmishes were fought in North Carolina during the Civil War. Although the number of men involved in many of these engagements was comparatively small, the campaigns and battles themselves were crucial in the grand strategy of the conflict and involved some of the most famous generals of the war. John Barrett presents the complete story of military engagements across the state, including the classical pitched battle of Bentonville, the siege of Fort Fisher, the amphibious campaigns on the coast, and cavalry sweeps such as Stoneman's raid. From and through North Carolina, men and supplies went to Lee's army in Virginia, making the Tar Heel state critical to Lee's ability to remain in the field during the closing months of the war, when the Union had cut off the West and Gulf South. This dependence upon North Carolina led to Stoneman's cavalry raid and Sherman's march through the state in 1865, the latter of which brought the horrors of total war and eventual defeat.

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1469639661

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9781469639666

Book's by John E. Bradshaw

Plant Breeding: Past, Present and Future

Plant Breeding: Past, Present and Future

Potato Breeding: Theory and Practice

Potato Breeding: Theory and Practice

The Lord's Supper in the Reformed Tradition

The Lord's Supper in the Reformed Tradition

Veterans of Foreign Whores

Veterans of Foreign Whores

Emergency Medicine

Emergency Medicine

Tempests, Poxes, Predators, and People

Tempests, Poxes, Predators, and People

Teen Guides to Environmental Science

Teen Guides to Environmental Science

The Civil War in North Carolina

The Civil War in North Carolina

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