Plant Breeding: Past, Present and Future
The United Nations predicts that the global human population will rise from the 7 billion reached in 2011 to 9 billion by 2050, and that world food production will need to increase between 70 and 100 per cent in just 40 years. Most of this increase will need to come from bridging the yield gap between what is currently achieved per unit of land and what should be possible in future, given the most appropriate farming methods and storage of food and the availability of suitably adapted cultivars, including adaptation to climate change. Breeding such cultivars is the challenge for a new generation of plant breeders who will need to decide what…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-3-319-23285-0
- EAN: 9783319232850
- Produktnummer: 19723813
- Verlag: Springer
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 12'044 KB
Über den Autor
JohnE. Bradshaw, PhD, spent his whole professional life as plant breeder andgeneticist at the Scottish Crop Research Institute (SCRI, formerly the ScottishPlant Breeding Station and now the James Hutton Institute). He completed hiscareer as Head of Potato Breeding and Manager of the Potato Genetics Programme,funded by the Scottish Government. He has worked on barley, brassicas (kale,swedes and turnips) and potatoes; doing research on the applications ofgenetics to plant breeding methods as well as breeding two kale and three swedecultivars, and contributing to the breeding of four more swedes, a turnip, and27 potatoes. His research covered methods of kale populationimprovement, the genetic basis of heterosis in swedes, the theory and practiceof linkage and QTL analysis in tetraploid potatoes, and breeding forquantitative resistance to pests and diseases (clubroot in kale, powdery mildewin swedes, and late blight and cyst nematodes in potatoes). Dr. Bradshaw is anHonorary Fellow of the Indian Potato Association and an Honorary Associate ofthe James Hutton Institute. He also holds Honorary Membership of EUCARPIA,European Association for Research on Plant Breeding (in recognition of hisoutstanding activity in the field of plant breeding science, and hisconsiderable contributions to improving international contacts in plantbreeding research). He was awarded the prestigious 2010 British Potato IndustryAward in recognition of his outstanding contribution to potato research andknowledge transfer. He has published 93 refereed papers in peer reviewedjournals, 53 other articles and 10 book chapters. He has also edited one andco-edited two books including Root and Tuber Crops (Book 7 of the Handbook ofPlant Breeding Series) with Springer.
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