Advances and challenges in strawberry genetic improvement

Advances and challenges in strawberry genetic improvementThe commercial strawberry (Fragaria ananassa) is a popular temperate fruit that is both nutritious and widely appreciated for flavour. The purpose of this chapter is to highlight some of the newest innovations in strawberry production with particular emphasis on genetic improvement of the crop. The threats and solutions to sustainable strawberry production are presented. The trend for developing more robust and sustainable strawberry cultivated

Wheat production in the region has increased both horizontally and vertically from 1961 through 2013

this anthology considers to what extent a subject as elusive as death can be examined

The chapter concludes with an overview of potential disease management and control options

Sorghum is an important source of grain and fodder

The years 1899-1914 witnessed a fundamental challenge to many Victorian values and institutions: Free Trade

- Tarif Khalidi

The book explores how the loyalist rebuttal to the American patriot movement derived much of its inspiration and rationale from the ancient literature of the Greco-Roman world—the same repository of classical ideas and principles the patriots coopted to persuade their fellow countrymen to disavow the English crown and pursue independence

This chapter introduces the concept of model uncertainty

Herbicide chemistries and herbicide-resistant crops have provided excellent technologies that have resulted in significant changes to the way weeds can be controlled

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This work focuses on the intellectual and educational history of Baghdad in the early ‘Abbasid and Buyid periods (8th–10th centuries)

but it is a fashionable city