Improvement of Oil-seed and Industrial Crops by Induced Mutations: Proceedings of an Advisory Group Meeting on the Use of Induced...
- ISBN-10
- 9200110827
- ISBN-13
- 9789200110825
- Category
- Technology & Engineering / Agriculture / General
- Pages
- 353
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1982
- Publisher
- International Atomic Energy Agency
Description
World production and needs of oil-seeds and vegetable oils; Plant breeding and management - their role in modifying the availability and composition of certain vegetable oils and fats; Status of breeding and prospects for mutation breeding in peanuts, sesame and castor beans; Achievements and prospects of sunflower genetics, breeding and induced mutation utilization; Safflower: genetics and breeding; Status and aspects of rapeseed breeding; Aspects of olive tree breeding; Mycotoxins in soil-seed and other crops; Seed-oils as renewable resource for industrial use; Cuphea, the first annual oil crop for the production of medium-chain triglycerides (MCT); Variation of chemical composition of cotton seeds with respect to species, picking time and location; Control of cotton stickiness through breeding cultivars resistant to whitefly (Bemesia tabaci (Genn); Orientations recents dans l'amelioration genetique du cotonnier; Jute breeding in Bangladesh; Natural and induced genetic variation in the biosynthesis of alkaloids and other secondary metabolites; Quality aspects of oil crop raw materials in relation to their use, extraction and processing; Improvement of soil-seeds from an industrial point of view: non-edible use; An introduction to biomass concepts for plant breeders; Biomass production: a plant breeder's view; Safflower breeding and its propescts in India; Current breeding programme on industrial crops in Indonesia; New varieties bred by mutation breeding in oil-seed and industrial crops.
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