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Oil Crops

Series: Handbook of Plant Breeding Volume: 4
Edited By: Johann Vollmann and Istvan Rajcan
462 pages, b/w & col illus, tabs
Publisher: Springer Nature
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  • Oil Crops ISBN: 9780387775937 Hardback Oct 2009 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 1-2 weeks
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About this book

This book is comprised primarily of specific issues and techniques pertaining to individual crops. It provides an update of the new oilseed crop development covering mainly Limnanthes ssp. and Cuphea ssp., which represent newly domesticated oil crop species with unique crop or oil characteristics. The latter chapters in the book are designed as introductory or review chapters highlighting topics of general interest in oil crop breeding such as domestication/genetic diversity, oil crop breeding targets, oil crop and human health issues, selection strategies with biotechnologies and analytical techniques as well as genetic engineering of fatty acid profiles.

Contents

Foreword.- Preface.- Oil Crop Breeding and Genetics.- Modifying Vegetable Oils for Food and Non-Food Purposes.- Soybean.- Oilseed Rape.- Other Brassicas.- Sunflower.- Flax.- Cotton.- Peanut.- Castor.- Oil Palm.- Coconut.- Olive.- Safflower.- Poppy.- Hull-Less Oil Seed Pumpkin.- Maize for Oil.- New Crops Breeding: Lesquerella.- Cuphea.-Index.

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Biography

Johann Vollmann is a native of Vienna, Austria. He is teaching courses on plant breeding as an associate professor at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna. His main research interests are in the genetic improvement of quality characteristics of soybean and in pre-breeding of minor oil crops. Johann Vollmann has been a co-developer of soybean and camelina germplasm adapted to Central European conditions. He also served as a secretary general to EUCARPIA, the European Association for Research in Plant Breeding. Istvan Rajcan grew up in Novi Sad, Serbia and moved to Canada in 1991. He completed his Ph.D. degree in canola breeding and biotechnology at the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario. He is a Professor and soybean breeder in the Department of Plant Agriculture at the University of Guelph and teaches plant breeding. Main areas of interest are genetics of modified seed composition for functional foods and bioproducts and crop adaptation to mega-environments. He serves on the editorial board four international journals including Theoretical and Applied Genetics. He has won several research awards, trained 13 graduate students and developed 30 soybean varieties.

Series: Handbook of Plant Breeding Volume: 4
Edited By: Johann Vollmann and Istvan Rajcan
462 pages, b/w & col illus, tabs
Publisher: Springer Nature
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