Rice Biotechnology: Improving Yield, Stress Tolerance and Grain Quality

by Jamie A. Goode and Derek J. Chadwick

Rice is the most important food crop for half the world's population. Over the last three decades, the imporvement in human nutrition and health in Asia has largely been attributable to a relatively stable and affordable rice supply. The challenge to produce enough rice for the future, however, remains daunting, as the current rate of population growth outpaces that of increases in rice production. Science has a central role to play in raising rice...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471496618
• ISBN13: 9780471496618
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"