Crop Production under Stressful Conditions

Crop Production under Stressful Conditions

Application of Cutting-edge Science and Technology in Developing Countries

Asanuma, Shuichi; Kokubun, Makie

Springer Verlag, Singapore

08/2018

212

Dura

Inglês

9789811073076

15 a 20 dias

593


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SATREPS program challenging global issues on food security: Overview.- Development of rice promising lines using genomic information in Vietnam.- Tailor-made rice breeding and cultivation technology for Kenya's environment.- Development of flood- and drought-adaptive cropping systems in Namibia.- Improving resources utilization efficiency in rice production systems with contour-levee irrigation in Colombia.- Development of wheat breeding materials using genetic resources in Afghanistan.- Biotechnology to generate a drought-tolerant soybean in Brazil.- Management of invasive pests in cassava in the greater Mekong subregion.- Control of witchweed (Striga) through chemical, biological and ecological methods in semi-arid regions in Sudan.- Bringing stability to world food supplies with Japanese technology and Mexican genetic resources.- Lessons learnt from SATREPS projects and perspectives.
SATREPS;Food security;Rice breeding and cultivation;fFood- and drought-adaptive cropping systems;Contour-levee irrigation;Wheat breeding;Drought-tolerant soybean;climate change impacts