Wheat
Subtitle: Ecology and Physiology of Yield Determination
Contributors: Emilio H. Satorre (Editor); Gustavo A. Slafer (Editor)
Publisher: Haworth Press
Published: July 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 503
ISBN-13: 9781560228745
Subjects: Cereal crops; Food & beverage technology; Wheat; Grain Crops; Technology; Technology & Industrial Arts; Science/Mathematics; Physiology; Agriculture - Agronomy; Agriculture - General; Yields; Food Science; Breeding; Ecophysiology
First sentence: There are approximately 350,000 botanically acknowledged plant species, but only 24 (i.e., 0.007 percent of them) are used as crops to satisfy most human requirements for food and fiber (Wittwer, 1980).