Feeding a world population of more than eight billion people : a challenge to science / edited by J....
Feeding a world population of more than eight billion people : a challenge to science / edited by J....
Feeding a world population of more than eight billion people : a challenge to science / edited by J.C. Waterlow ... [et al.].
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New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press in association with the Rank Prize Funds, 1998.
Date
1998.
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N338.19/86
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English
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xv,280 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introductory Remarks / Aaron Klug -- 1. Needs for Food: Are We Asking Too Much? / J. C. Waterlow -- 2. The Economics of Food / Partha Dasgupta -- 3. Land Resources and Constraints to Crop Production / D. J. Greenland, P. J. Gregory and P. H. Nye -- 4. Water and Food in Developing Countries in the Ne...
11. Improving Yield Potential by Modifying Plant Type and Exploiting Heterosis / G. S. Khush, S. Peng and S. S. Virmani -- 12. Developing Crops with Tolerance to Salinity and Drought Stress / D. P. S. Verma -- 13. Prospects for Engineering Enbanced Durable Disease Resistance in Crops / Chris Lamb --...
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New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press in association with the Rank Prize Funds, 1998.
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England
Date Published
1998.
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Feeding a world population of more than eight billion people : a challenge to science / edited by J.C. Waterlow ... [et al.].
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Based on papers presented at the 10th International Symposium sponsored by the Rank Prize Funds held in Ferndown, Dorset, United Kingdom, Dec. 6-9, 1996.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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0195113128 :
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338.19
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