Wheat

Wheat: Science and Trade is an up-to-date, comprehensive reference work designed to expand the current body of knowledge on this staple crop, incorporating new information made available by genetic advances, improvements in the understanding of wheat's biology, and changes in the wheat trade industry. Covering phylogeny and ontogeny, manipulation of the environment and optimal management, genetic improvement, and utilization and commercialization, the book focuses on the most economically significant diseases and impacts

Auteur
Brett F. Carver is Regents Professor and Wheat Genetics Chair in Agriculture at Oklahoma State University, whose research in wheat breeding and genetics spans 25 years.

Texte du rabat
As one of the world's largest and most versatile crops, wheat has been the subject of much research from around the globe. Wheat: Science and Trade compiles classic principles of existing research and expands them to include recent advancements in genetics and industry trade for the most comprehensive reference work to date. Wheat: Science and Trade is divided into four major sections covering all aspects of the wheat plant, crop, cultivar and industry. Section one offers a firm grounding in the development and domestication of wheat with an extensive overview of diseases and pathogens following in Section two. Section three focuses on genetic strategies including QTL detection and marker-assisted selection, genome organization and comparative genomics, and synthetic wheat as an emerging technology. Section four concludes the text with a discussion of changes in industry trade, quality assessment, and new uses for wheat and modified wheat products.

Written by a global team of expert authors, Wheat: Science and Trade is presented in a user-friendly format making it equally accessible to a wide variety of readers. Applicable for the academic, research, consulting, and end-user communities, this text is a must have reference on this key staple crop.

Key Features:

• Provides an up-to-date authoritative reference on a globally consumed and produced crop
• Focuses on the most economically significant production constraints and impacts
• Includes interconnecting sections on the wheat plant, crop, cultivar, and industry
• Includes chapters from a world-wide team of leading experts
• Provides concise summaries for each chapter and perspectives on emerging research areas

Résumé
Wheat: Science and Trade is an up-to-date, comprehensive reference work designed to expand the current body of knowledge on this staple crop, incorporating new information made available by genetic advances, improvements in the understanding of wheat's biology, and changes in the wheat trade industry. Covering phylogeny and ontogeny, manipulation of the environment and optimal management, genetic improvement, and utilization and commercialization, the book focuses on the most economically significant diseases and impacts

Contenu

Foreword xvii

Preface xix

Acknowledgements xxi

Contributors xxiii

Section I: Making of a Wheat Plant 3

1 Wheat evolution, domestication, and improvement 5

Summary 5

Introduction 5

Wheat domestication and human civilization 6

Wheat cultivation 7

Origin, domestication, and evolution of wheat 8

Genome evolution and modification 16

Mechanisms for chromosome evolution 18

The potential of wild emmer in wheat improvement 21

Concluding remarks on the process of wheat evolution 22

Future perspectives 23

References 23

2 Development of the wheat plant 31

Summary 31

Introduction 31

Scales of plant development 323

Morphological naming schemes 34

Shoot development 35

Environmental factors influencing shoot development 42

Digital technologies for wheat development 47

Linking molecular biology and functional genomics to development 49

Future perspectives 50

References 50

3 The flowering pathway in wheat 57

Summary 57

Overview of flowering induction in wheat 57

Genetic locations of flowering time genes 58

Positional cloning of flowering time genes in wheat 61

Comparative studies on flowering pathways in plants 65

Future perspectives 67

References 68

Section II: Making of a Wheat Crop 73

4 Systems-based wheat management strategies 75

Summary 75

Introduction 75

Advances in wheat management 75

Dual-purpose wheat 79

No-till wheat production 82

Future perspectives 84

References 86

5 Diseases which challenge global wheat productionthe wheat rusts 89

Summary 89

Introduction 90

Wheat leaf rust 90

Wheat stripe rust 102

Wheat stem rust 109

Future perspectives 116

References 117

6 Diseases which challenge global wheat productionroot, crown, and culm rots 125

Summary 125

Introduction 125

Common root rot 126

Fusarium crown rot 129

Pythium root rot 131

Rhizoctonia root rot and bare patch 134

Take-all 136

Cephalosporium stripe 139

Eyespot 141

Future perspectives 142

References 144

7 Diseases which challenge global wheat productionpowdery mildew and leaf and head blights 155

Summary 155

Introduction 155

Powdery mildew 156

Stagonospora nodorum blotch 157

Septoria tritici blotch 158

Tan spot 159

Fusarium head blight 160

Management of residue-borne diseases 161

Future perspectives 163

References 164

8 Nematodes which challenge global wheat production 171

Summary 171

Introduction 171

Cereal cyst nematode 172

Root-lesion nematode 177

Future perspectives 182

References 183

9 Insects which challenge global wheat production 189

Summary 189

Hessian fly 189

Bird cherryoat aphid 192

Greenbug 194

Russian wheat aphid 196

Future perspectives 198

References 199

10 Temporally and spatially dependent nitrogen management for diverse environments 203

Summary 203

Introduction 203

Nitrogen-use efficiency as a driver of new technology 204

Case study: What defines diverse environments 205

Is nitrogen needed 206

Nutrient deficiencies other than N 209

Prediction of yield potential 209 <...